Clint Dempsey has been on a roll lately, and he will look to keep his recent hot streak going for Fulham against Sunderland.
Today's slate of soccer matches on TV isn't confined to ones featuring Americans Abroad, though Dempsey and Tim Howard will both be playing matches on TV today. The day's schedule also features some of the world's best rivalries, including Roma-Lazio and Nacional-Penarol.
If you are a fan of the women's game, then you will want to see the NCAA College Cup Final between unbeaten Stanford perennial power North Carolina.
If you will be watching today's action, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action (Today's schedule of matches is after the jump):
TODAY'S SOCCER ON TV
9am- FSC/RAI- Genoa vs. Parma
9:30am- ESPN2- Notre Dame vs. North Carolina (Women's College Cup, REPLAY)
10am- Setanta USA- Fulham vs. Sunderland
11am- DirecTV- Espanyol vs. Racing Santander
11am- DirecTV- Mallorca vs. Real Zaragoza
11am- DirecTV- Malaga vs. Osasuna
11am- FSC- Everton vs. Tottenham
11:30am- ESPN Deportes- Schalke 04 vs. Hertha Berlin
1pm- GolTV- Villarreal vs. Getafe
1pm- Telemundo- Toluca vs. Monterrey
1pm- ESPN2- Stanford vs. North Carolina (NCAA Women's Final)
2pm- GolTV- Flamengo vs. Gremio
2:45pm- FSC/RAI- AS Roma vs. Lazio
3pm- ESPN Deportes- Athletic Bilbao vs. Valencia
3pm- Setanta USA- Lille vs. Lyon
5pm- FSC- Velez Sarsfield vs. River Plate (Delayed)
5pm- GolTV- Nacional vs. Penarol (Delayed)
Dempsey and Donovan are two different type players, who do different things. Comparing them is a waste of time. US fans should just be grateful both are playing for the US.
Did Dempsey Score?
his hand is all good, right?
great save by Howard, but did he really have to punch the post in celebration? the last thing the USA needs right now is a #1 with a broken hand.
mmmm, nahh, maybe it was 2 weeks ago, now it bumped up to 75 mins. and pretty soon he’ll be going the full 90 now that he’s been starting…..fitness takes time
interesting as Tim Howard has said in the past as his dream move would be to play for Milan
good idea, lescot with better hair
but how many games would he get?
Great game for Howard. Nice save on the pk. If I were Tim Howard, I would look forward to seeing more of that Coleman guy. Outside of Howard’s save, Coleman won the point for Everton, and he didn’t look to bad in defense.
Not surprising, since they assume if he is in the EPL he must be better. Also they have probably seen at most a half dozen Donovan games, if that. When it comes to the Nats players and coaches (as well as almost all close observers), the idea that Dempsey is better than Donovan does not even enter the conversation. Because it is a silly notion – he just isn’t.
However, he is pretty darn good and if Davies does not come back at full strength, I do like him up top because (a) if keeps Donovan where he has been thriving and (b) opens the right for Holden, who I think may (MAY) be an upgrade on Dempsey’s play out there. (I will take bets right now that Holden will be considered our best player by 2014.)
Good catch. I thought he was a full time starter at 19 million pounds. I should have looked it up.
thatd be a cool idea and i agree that gooch has to go elsewhere to get playing time, especially with milan turning it on lately, but i wonder if his injury makes it next to impossible to get a loan move. if hes rehabbing in delaware i guess it won’t matter to him as much as if he was rehabbing with the milan training staff who are supposedly excellent. anyone have any more knowledge on what he can do this transfer window?
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Since fans were saying Jozy needed to score I guessed a fair comparison would be EPL games.
Coleman is Irish. He did look a force today, particularly in helping out the attack.
If Everton has injury problems in the back line and ac milan wont play gooch, i think gooch should try getting a loan to everton. Where he could get some quality playing time and play with howard.
Wow the Everton/Spurs game had an unbelievable final 30 minutes + stoppage time. That young buck Coleman on the right filling in for Neville is an absolute beast. If he continues to perform like that he’ll be right behind Ashley Cole (assuming he’s English). The Toffee fans really got behind their team and I thought it was over when Saha hit that bicycle kick. Yet it was no where close to being finished when Palacios found himself running in on goal. My heart dropped when Hibbert stuck his head in and knocked out Palacios. I had a small portion of faith that Timmy would save the penalty, but Defoe took it poorly, and Timmy guessed correctly, making a fantastic save with his legs. That could well be a turning point for Everton’s season.
were you there? I didn’t hear it on the FSC audio feed.
Come on Toffees!
Hopefully this show of passion and resilience will be a springboard to a run of results in the weeks to come… Yakubu is working his way back to fitness, Pienaar is finally back, and Jags and Arteta will be back in training before you know it!
I thought, prior to Defoe’s PK, “come on Timmy, show these bastards what they can expect on June 12…” AWESOME.
chants of USA USA USA raining down from the stands at Goodison Park
We know who won’t be taking a PK in the US-England game… Dafoe…Timmy Howard is in your head now!
TIMMY!!!!
Well done Howard!!! Super finish from Cahill and Coleman has done himself real proud that game.
2-0 and you f it up. Not worthy of top 4.
wat a game!
What an ending
TIMMMMAAAYYYY!!!
Timmy!
Timmy with a last second PK save!
Everton to press in the final 4 of stoppage time.
That was brilliant from cahill. Everton showing some real spirit here.
Unfortunately, I think Jozy’s max on “running around” is about 65 minutes. After that it’s ‘hands-on-hips’ and trotting.
Agreed on the Deuce. I think if Jozy can cause trouble up top and at least just run around for 90 minutes, Dempsey could fill in that underneath role and find plenty of opportunities.
Yeah, But I would definitely go to the game! Prob just because my family is from Belfast though…
Wow, that Everton defense sucks. Of course, so does their attack which explains why they sit 16th in the table. Poor Timmy.
Switching leagues and going off-field, Stuttgart fired its coach and former EPL player Markus Babbel today after thousands of fans had protested the team’s poor performance following its 1-1-1 draw yesterday. Stuttgart — which still has a chance to make the final 16 in Champions League play — has 12 points out of 15 games. Yesterday’s protest began shortly after the game and eventually became violent with minor scuffles between fans and police who had to guard the entrance to the section of the stadium where club officials were meeting through the night to discuss the fortunes of the team.
just checked the stats on fantasy premier league and Jozy has 565 minutes while Jo has 458. I understand your point but no country is relying on Jo to bang in the goals in South Africa but Americans are relying on Jozy to. That is the difference.
and yea Howard is having a good game.
watching world cup draw analysis show, interesting to hear the british analyst say that britsh fans/media respect dempsey much more than donovan. makes sense that they see the dempsey who works his tail off in the EPL but interesting how much of a contrast that is with how most US fans feel about donovan vs. dempsey. dempsey did look pretty darn good again today on the wing but i still think his role in the WC is up top with Jozy. he’s been at his most effective there and it opens up a spot for one of the feilhaber, holden, torres, rogers group on the wing, a group id rather pick from than the casey, cooper, ching etc. up front. would love to have chuckie davies back for the cup but a more realistic, and potentially as important, goal is having both demerit and gooch in shape to give us depth at CB
Come on you Whites. Dempsey got hacked a lot and had a close call in a clash of heads where the other player needed stitches. I was thinking how he is never injured and had thought I’d jinxed him. Played very well though, ran his butt off.
According to Wikipedia, Jo has three goals this season — one league, one cup, and one in Europe.
Not a great challenge, not impressed at all.
Howard nice game so far with make shift defenders filling in. Defoe will be a handful for USA, more so than Rooney.
For those saying Jozy must score soon, here’s a nice comparison. Jo the 19 mil pounds Brazilian at Everton has zero goals with probably more than twice the minutes.
demspey just had a great free kick. I think he should be taking more of the free kicks on goal and let landy take the swinging free kicks
To anyone watching the Fulham match, how’s tha Deuce playing?
USA U17 tied Brazil 1-1
This Genoa Parma game is a real corker.
What was the score for the USA game yesterday?
Fulham v. Sunderland:
http://atdhe.net/10816/watch-fulham-vs-sunderland
Fulham up 1-0 on Zamora header.
Anyone have a link to video?
USA v Norther Ireland in May!
Just read on the BBC….. Clint v Baird and Hughes!
Agree. It’s not about the team–it’s all about the playing time…
As good as that would be, I would rather see him playing every time against top competition than occasionally or never by being on the bench of a good team.
The more I see of Clint playing for Fulham, especially in the past few weeks, the more I think he could really help out some struggling upper echelon PL teams that are lacking goal power (Liverpool comes to mind, and so does Everton — that is, if you consider them to be a bigger club than Fulham. I’m not so sure about that anymore these days…).
I love how Clint plays for Fulham.