The U.S. Men's National Team can take control of their World Cup Qualifying group tonight with a win in the hostile environment in Guatemala City as the Americans take on Guatemala at Estadio Nacional Mateo Flores.
The Americans come in off a 3-1 qualifying win against Antigua & Barbuda, a sloppy victory, but a win that put the team closer to qualification. Guatemala enters the match in must-win mode after losing their opening match to Jamaica, 2-1, in Kingston.
Fabian Johnson is back in the lineup for the USA, a huge relieve for Jurgen Klinsmann, who will field a full-strength defense tonight. The key for that defense will be containing Carlos Ruiz, the tricky striker is a handful and will lead the Guatemala attack.
SBI will be providing live commentary on tonight's match so feel free to follow the action here. As always, you are welcome to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action (tonight's commentary is after the jump):
Wow! I think I’ve actually figured out why the USA sucks so bad. They play in Europe but they aren’t play makers. They are the ones that hand the ball off to play makers. (too many holding mids)No matter what team they play they get pushed back to tim howard! Bradley should have shot and idk why Altidore wasn’t making the run with him. Very disappointing and pathetic display by this USA team.
Far too casual in the middle of the park. Sloppy, mindless giveaways kill our game. (Edu, leading the charge on that front)
Officiating was as awful as expected, but we didn’t deserve more than a point from that match. Why can’t we play inspired soccer? Why can’t Jozy run? Why can’t we do better on set pieces? We only have till September to figure these things out.
^this post should be deleted…
Time to stop blaming the refereeing.
Marco Pappa sure looked good tonight. Wish we could have a player like that.
yeah but not as much as Bradley does.
To me this was a game that screamed for Wondo to be the sub, not Altidore
LOL, yeah… good thing you are not making the roster choices.
I said it, this formation doesn’t cut it. It needs to be 4-3-3.
That was horrible
EDU Sucks!
Classic.
We had two penalties not given, a goal disallowed and some extremely pathetic offciaitng.
How does USSF not stand up for our teams in this crap.
look at the bright side, at least we are AS GOOD AS guatamala
Everyone had a poor game it’s so sad all the us players play abroad in Europe and they can’t even beat a Guatemala team filled with nobodies it’s just super sad to see this not impress at all.
Howard needs to sit next game.
Bradley Donovan and Jozy as te worst players
watching the guats chase us back to our goalie is depressing.
This is getting way too familiar.
Bradley having another bad game.
Our center mids have absolutley whiffed on 3 straight decent chances. Each at least 20 rows into the stands
Wasn’t this very game, 4 years ago a draw as well?
Tim maybe couldve done a bit better on that one. Looked like he was flat footed.
This USA team is too lazy it’s like they don’t want to play anymore they don’t deserve the win so dissappointed
Jozy altidore is a lazy pig. Continue your dreaking run you ungrateful punk
Not going to lie I believe that Gomez would have scored that one
REf has been terrible. Not playing the advantage was terrible…
Why is Jones taking a free kick 18 yards from the goal??? Why not Donovan, Dempsey, Bradley, just about anyone on the team? Unbelievable!
Wow Tim. He’s been in bad form.
sigh…
I’m done with this Mickey mouse horsesh*t concacaf junk. F*cling rigged games.
That was a great goal. That being said the US’s performance has been pitiful thus far.
Alas.
Why no advantage?? Jozy would have scored!
The worst part of CONCACAF qualifying? Joel Aguilar, Courtney Campbell, and the rest of the confederation referees.
If ever that were an instance in which to allow the advantage and NOT call the foul, it was that one on Dempsey…
and here I thought the ref at the Russia – Poland game was bad…
Wtf goal disallowed! !!!
jones! wtf?
I’m not even watching tonight’s game, I’m following the gametracker, but I feel like I have seen this scenario play out so many times before. Before the final whistle goes if Guatemala hasn’t scored it’s HIGHLY likely the ref will do something.
Wtf this official is so ridiculous
Donovan should do more? Like play down the wing instead of play an early ball into the defense.
we are lucky we are not down 2-1
Hearing no objections, the motion carries.
Watch the yellows boys, they add up..
Watching on myp2p.eu. It’s kinda funny because every time a foul is called on Guatemala, the feed (which i assume is ran by a Guatemala outfit) Goes dark on the replay as to not show what happened.
It’s nice at this point for the US. They’re pretty unlikely to lose and in this weak group in this weak prelim phase, it doesn’t really matter if they win this game. Road draw is more than sufficient given they are unlikely to drop many (any?) points at home.
I think Howard earned that yellow for Bradley. 30sec earlier, the ref was telling him to speed it up on the goal kick.
Altidore instead of gomez? Interesting.