The two first places in the CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinals will be filled tonight as Costa Rica takes on Honduras and unbeaten Mexico battles Guatemala.
The first pair of Gold Cup quarterfinals headline a busy night of soccer action, a night that includes the Los Angeles Galaxy's visit to the Colorado Rapids and D.C. United's trip to Rio Tinto Stadium to take on Real Salt Lake.
If you will be watching today's action, or if you caught today's earlier European Under-21 Tournament action, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action (Today's TV schedule is after the jump):
TODAY'S SOCCER ON TV
5 p.m. - Telefutura - Costa Rica vs. Honduras (Gold Cup quarterfinals)
6:45 p.m. - ESPNU/ESPN3.com - Congo vs. Netherlands (FIFA U-17 World Cup)
7 p.m. - MLS Direct Kick/MatchDay Live - Toronto FC vs. Seattle Sounders
7:30 p.m. - MLS Direct Kick/MatchDay Live - New England Revolution vs. Chicago Fire
7:30 p.m. - Fox Soccer Channel - Orlando City vs Wilmington Hammerheads
7:30 p.m. - GOLTV - Atletico Nacional vs. La Equidad
8 p.m. - Univision - Mexico vs. Guatemala (Gold Cup quarterfinals)
8:30 p.m. - MLS Direct Kick/MatchDay Live - Houston Dynamo vs. Columbus Crew
9 p.m. - MLS Direct Kick/MatchDay Live - Real Salt Lake vs. D.C. United
9 p.m. - MLS Direct Kick/MatchDay Live - Colorado Rapids vs. Los Angeles Galaxy
10 p.m. - MLS Direct Kick/MatchDay Live - Vancouver Whitecaps vs. Philadelphia Union
10:30 p.m. - MLS Direct Kick/MatchDay Live - Chivas USA vs. FC Dallas
I’m not French man haha I love how quickly people jump to conclusions. I simply made an observation, anybody who says they are impressed by this performance is kidding themselves. However, they did well to come back and get a result despite not playing well.
I’m extremely disappointed with the US lately. Rooting for Jamaica o that we can finally get that coaching change. There’s no way this team can beat Mexico.
Mexico 16-2 Opposition
Enough said!
The worst Mex in the whole tourney still manages a win, and most importantly has it’s two centre forward score.
That says a lot!
Here’s hoping Alt and Dempsey do the same tomorrow!!!
Yeah OK Francois?
Were you impressed when Mexico beat France in the WC Francois? Probably not!
Sorry to dissapoint you Francois 🙁
Let’s go US!
What was expected has happened, tomorrow let’s keep it happening!!!
Guatemala looked horrible. Not impressed with Mexico at all, the first goal was an atrocious error by the Guatemalean keeper.
la selecion de mexico es la pejor de toda mundo. gano de un gol no mas. Terrible. (sarcasm)
yellow for Rafa
Rafa is lucky he still has a leg.
[and apparently she has been told this before]
Casey Nogueira and Gio look like they could have been separated at birth
Nice goal out of Chicharito.
Really lame effort from Guatamala for the last 60ish minutes, though.
He meant to do that, certainly. score goals – or nearly scored goals – like that all season at United.
damn, 2-1 mexico. about 25 minutes left.
He did
Guatamala doesn’t have another goal in them…. crap…
WOW! If he meant to do that I’m impressed!
Panama looks better than Guatamala, so at least I don’t feel so bad…
Giovanni dos santos can definetly pass as a females
agree with both statements. A little surprised no one was carded during that scuffle. And my first thought was it was going to be a red for the tackle on Marquez. Spikes up into the shin. Maybe the ref doesn’t want to give a red in a game like this unless he absolutely has to.
No and Torrado really should have gotten a red for the repeats. Gautemala player should have gotten a red for his tackle on Marquez thought.
And that tackle on Marquez was almost – if not – red card worthy.
did any player get a card for that scuffle? Guardado deserved one for escalating everything with that shove.
DAMN. the end
Just like in life, tournament squads have peaks and valleys. You have to peak at the right time.
Fredy Montero wins it at the death for 10 man Seattle vs Toronto!!!!!!!!!!!
How can they be gassed? They last played on Sunday, 6 days ago.
Keep in mind if the US goes to the final, they will play essentially 3 games in 6 days (Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday). Now that will be tough.
Mexico still likely to get a goal. But this is a lesson to the xbox fifa generation. In soccer you don’t win every game. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes you deserve to win and lose. Sometimes bad things just happen. Soccer ain’t that easy. Stuff happens. Beating a crap teams 5-0 doesn’t mean anything. So the U.S. had a bad game v. Panama. It happens. So our team sucks and our coach sucks? soccer is way more complex and cruel than that. More than likely US will win, and be the better team tomorrow. But who knows what the soccer gods have to say about it
not as funny as when Clark kicked Ruiz while he was faking injury on the ground. All of MLS smiled that day.
Yeah Wondo just needs that one chance…to sky it over the net.
El Escremento!
yeah – I just thought it looked funny in the replay.
from the replay, you can see Torrado slamming his knee into the back of Ruiz’s knee. Owch, been a victim of that before. Typical hard play from Torrado though
I think they’ve already accomplished that
Guatemala! Si se puede! I hope my little chapines can at least give them a good scare!
maybe only have 17 guys or whatever is catching up to them?
That’s pretty damn funny. +1
Ruiz backed up into that one…a butt bump
I havent seen any specifics either but I cant imagine lots of bets on Mexico over Cuba would be considered unusual
Mexico kinda looks gassed
mexico fans, feel our pain!!!! hold it guatemala, better chances on the counter!!!
@ bradley hater and @ supsam.
ROFL. darn it Ives we need to have a “like” button feature on SBI’s
lol, Sorry. Well he’s only a few years older than me, but when I saw him right before his goal, I had the quick thought that he looked older than I thought he was or what I remembered. And if it makes you feel better he’s about the same age as Cherundolo and Bocanegra, who are both looking great.
Oh my God, my U-14 kids that I coach could have done better with that 4 on 2 that Guatemala.
I wonder what kind of odds there were for Guatemala scoring first in tonight’s game?
he kind of blew that one – he had lots of help
I think they want you to think that so that when they fix this one people won’t suspect it as much. If Mexico loses you’ll know it was fixed. Mexico is too good to fall to Guatemala.
You may be right, didn’t see in the story where itmentioned exact scores were the ones paying out.
It won’t matter anyway, Mexico is losing this game and USA will win tomorrow to knock out all offenders.
hahaha I see what you did there!