If it pleases you, discuss the World Cup matches here. And keep us blisslessly ignorant desk jockeys informed of what’s going on. It will be a wild morning with probabilties of advancement swinging drastically with each goal scored in either game.
The Desert Foxes of Algeria still have a slim hope to advance. The, whatever the US is called, have a somewhat better chance, but nothing is for certain.
Scenarios for Group C are as follows:
USA Advances With: 1) A win. 2) A draw and an England loss. 3) A draw and an English draw while maintaining a total goals advatage over England. (currently US is up 3 goals to 1)
ALGERIA Advances With: 1) A win and an England tie. 2) A win and an England win and Algeria makes up goal deficit to Slovenia.
England Advances With: 1) A win. 2) A draw and a US loss. 3) A draw and a US draw,but England ends up with more total goals than the US.
Slovenia Advances With: 1) A win. 2) A draw. 3) A loss and a US draw.
Solely in terms of US advancement, we are rooting for low scoring draw (0-0 or 1-1) between England and Slovenia. Under that scenario, the US wins the group with a victory over Algeria and advances in second position with any kind of draw. If England wins their match, America has to win to get in.
Can't believe US almost conceded in the first few minutes again. Did you see the crass bar rattle? What luck.
Robbed again!
That was infuriating. Dammit!
A US goal disallowed. England scores moments later. US is currently slated for the chopping block if these scores hold. Lots of time left though.
Good call or bad call on the offsides? Seemed close enough to go either way to me.
Another stolen goal. Clearly there is a conspiracy to keep soccer unpopular in the US.
[3] Looked "level", which is not offside. Pretty clear, actually: level or better.
[5] Yeah, I've seen a few replays now, looked like a goal to me.
Oh, Dempsey! Oh, man, what an opportunity.
Altidore, no!
Oh, man, they just can't finish.
Oh, painful.
painful miss
Love the Yankee hats on the US fans!
Halftime. Our guys looked better, for sure, but no results yet.
Still (too?)optimistic...
i'm torn between feeling frustrated at their finishing and angry at the refs. they've lost 2 goals, either would put them through at this point. at the same time, they can blame themselves for missing a few gimmes. we need donavan to strap the team on his back like the end of the 2nd game and lead them through the butterfly stage.
This is another thing I cannot stand about soccer: "offside". Put your guys where ever the hell you want. That's also a problem with football, when a referee blows a play dead because one side has too few/too many men on the line. If you want to stack the line with all eleven, and take the risk of getting burned by a reception, go a head, and if you want to pull everyone back and get torched by a running play, fine.
At leat baseball allows The Shift. You got a guy out of position? Damon will take that extra base.
could slovenia score vs england? that would really help take the nerves off our guys.
no left foot. got to use both. not world class.
[12] Compare the 3-seconds rule in the NBA. Sure, you could say, let them play where they want, but aficionados feel like it would ruin the game.
Oh, FUCK! Dempsey misses the easy rebound!! Not sure they 'deserve' to win this one...
screw the refs. this is on us. too many terrible misses.
Bocanegra and DeMerit are doing a great job cleaning up all the attacks.
Oh, a great, great move! Jeez. Unlucky again -- the ball just bounced the wrong way of the keeper's leg.
ARGH!
And then moments later, WHEW!
Running out of time, for sure.
Come on, Landon! This is your moment...
Nope.
Donovan gets another chance... No, Bradley will take it. Oh, nice shot, good save.
Wow, this is grueling!
looks like they have less than 10 minutes to do something.
cmon guys, don't settle for coulda, woulda, shoulda. go out and take it.
Oh, the ref missed a red card foul, Dempsey takes an elbow in the mouth.
Very good run by Damarcus. That foul could have been red too!
Time running out...
thats 2 reds Algeria should've received but didn't
Howard has been excellent -- not much to do today, but he's been in control.
I don't understand why Algeria isn't opening up more. Their chance of advancing is very small now, but they have no chance if they don't score!
Looking grim. I wonder how much stoppage time we have.
Damarcus offside?
Yellow??? What?
[29] 4 minutes
1-0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
USA!
JOY!
YES!~!!!!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, Tim Howard! Tim is my man of the match. What a fucking beautiful distribution.
Oh, man.
Happy. Very happy. Wet eyes.
Oh, Tim and Landon, of course. Landon my man. He never gives up.
Stay cool, boys, stay cool.
wow - just saw the score!!
[38] meaning i just saw that they scored - not the actual score - soccer is mos def not something to follow on the internet
this must really burn the british (sorry, can't help it)
wait did england advance, that is what espn's front page is saying?
[40] They do advance, though.
[41] Yes, USA and UK err Great Britain err England also advances
[41] Yes. They have a W and two draws, same as our guys. Slovenia a W and one draw. Slovenia needed the draw to advance.
that was amazing, I haven't gone that nuts at my desk since I found all those Subway coupons in my drawer
ms october, england only needed to win to advance. They controlled their own destiny. But we win the group on total goals scored.
that's called "leaving it late" but it was amazing. all goals are beautiful, even if this one was on the ugly side.
Okay, that was awesome
Love Landon. (Are others watching the postgame interview?)
A little bit trite, and he doesn't have a "passionate" voice, but so obviously real emotion.
[40] Several of the crew members and producers on the film I'm working for are from Great Britain, including the Key PA who is my direct supervisor; I just thought he didn't like me very much with the Thousand Yard Stare he's been passing around the last couple of weeks, but now I know hat to blame... still, it;s gonna mean long nights this week.
[43] [44] [46] thanks - for some reason i thought slovenia was in a better position than they were.
anyway, what a way to win and advance.
Re: "whatever the US is called"... we're called The Yanks!
[45] ha
does the United States victory in the 91st minute begin to show that soccer is an awesome sport to youse baseball rules banterers?