Today is one of those days where there just aren't enough hours in the day to see all the great soccer action going on.
With a full slate of World Cup qualifiers around the globe, and MLS kicking off its second week, you won't lack for things to watch. There are important European tilts like Portugal-Sweden, Lithuania France and Netherlands-Scotland, but also CONCACAF's Final Six meet in three key clashes.
if you will be watching today's action, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comment section below (MLS and USA fans should keep note that there will be a seperate post later in the day, as well as our Red Bulls-Revs and USA-El Salvador coverage tonight).
Enjoy all the action (go to the jump for today's schedule of matches on TV):
SATURDAY
12:30pm- Setanta Sports (PPV)- England vs. Slovakia
12:30pm- Fox Soccer Channel- Russia vs. Azerbaijan
1pm- GolTV- Wales vs. Finland
2pm- Setanta USA- Israel vs. Greece
3pm- GolTV- Germany vs. Liechtenstein
3pm- Fox Sports Espanol- Slovenia vs. Czech Republic
3:45pm- FSC- Slovenia vs. Czech Republic
3:45pm- ESPN360- Netherlands vs. Scotland
4pm- ESPN Deportes- Uruguay vs. Paraguay
4:45pm- Setanta USA- Portugal vs. Sweden
5pm- GolTV- Spain vs. Turkey
6pm- Telemundo- Mexico vs. Costa Rica
6:45pm- Setanta USA- Montenegro vs. Italy
7:30pm- FSC- New York Red Bulls vs. New England Revolution
8:30pm- Setanta USA- Lithuania vs. France
9pm- ESPN2/ESPN360/Telemundo- El Salvador vs. USA
G.D. Mexican flopper!!!!
Kun scores for Argentina 4 Nil
Goal Emilio!!!
Mike’s right. If CR had a Kenny Cooper or Brian Ching to go with their decent wing play they’d have a goal by now.
Guardado is playing. Mexico lead 1-nil. Thanks to Omar Bravo goal.
Argentina leads Venezuela 3 nil. Messi, Tevez, Maxi.
Mexico’s defense is atrocious, but Costa Rica’s offense is even worse. AMs and forwards for CR are basically useless… despite being unmarked a shocking number of times.
Spain beat Turkey 1-0 in a tight first half. But Spain showed their class and dominated in the 2nd.
Thanks to the police and fence lined section, the idea of going to Azteca seems much more reasonable now. I certainly won’t be able to do it this year, but we could at least send as many as Costa Rica.
33rd minute. Los Ticos chances are starting to happen less often, Mexico with a couple of corner kicks, but not much more than that.
Harsh yellow for the Costa Rican right back in the corner for an accidental trip. A foul, yes, a yellow, no.
It was Omar Bravo, my bad for not mentioning it.
Mexico scores first in the 20th minute. Shot from top of the box gets saved, but spilled, same player follows it up. 1-0.
Well played, CSD, welllll played…
Most of the rest of the region probably calls us Los Gringos.
In the English speaking Caribbean don’t know what they call us, besides tourists 🙂
Costa Rica looks fiesty in the first 10 minutes.
Off topic of sorts, but everyone in our region kinda has a nickname, Mexico is El Tri, Costa Ricos the Ticos, El Salvador is the Cuscatletos, do we have anything like that? Do they refer to us as the Yanks or anything?
Not much of a surprise, but Ochoa in goal for Mexico.
Why does Ronaldo look like rubbish when playing for Portugal? Shouldn’t National play be considered when voting player of year?
Sweden gets a tie in Portugal 0-0…….Looking at the table, Portugal is in serious danger of not finishing in the top 2 (and thus being eliminated from the World Cup)…..
Can’t say that would make me upset….
I hope mexico loses….that would really make my day.
Not trying to be like this guy, but GO USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
USA, USA, USA
o nvm but they are ahead of argentina and chile for now becuz of a huge goal differential
? Uruguay’s lost three games.
uruguay wins and remaions undefeated but are still in the mid table cuz of some ties
nobody called Beckham a never-was. He’s a petulant underwear model who happens to also be fairly good at soccer.
Matt, it was in his “Who do you think will start” post earlier in the week, and was what you’d expect:
——Ching—Donovan——
-Beasley-Bradley-Kljestian-Dempsey-
-Pearce-Boca-Gooch-Heyduk
———Guzan——-
He may have had Mastroeni for Kljestian, can’t completely remember.
no one has been watching uruguay vs paraguay on espn deportes. it is a good match between the two. Uruguay up 2-0 at home.
Own goal Padula off a DeRo set piece.
Crew 1-1 TFC
The broadcast was showing a burning bucket during the goal. A bucket that was on fire while a goal was scored. Just pitiful.
England 4-0 Full time
England 1-0 first half without Beckham England 3-0 second half WITH Beckham (would have been 4-0, if Terry lets the ball run)
Pretty good for a has-been or never-was (as some would have it), don’t you think?
Are those Washington Redskins ads on the ad boards at the Bernebeau?
Has anyone seen Ives normal post predicting what he believes will be the USMNT starting lineup?
I like the Irish goltv guy.
Certainly better than Max Bretos or those drones calling Premier league games.
I take that backline of TFC’s comment back.
The Crew have been livin’ in Reds box for the last 5 minutes.
Marvell Wynne became a solid player at some point in the offseason. He is by far the best Toronto player out there today.
Somebody somewhere mentioned SI reporting Guzan would start a day or two ago.
Gaven is a DIVER! and no, im not a TFC fan
Chad Barrett is just awful, awful.
I think TFC’s backline has held up pretty well. Frei is out and Sutton is in. I had Frei on my Fantasy squad.
Guzan is probably going to start, considering Howard is suspended.
Not trying to be like DaDeuce and dominate a thread but:
I heard Guzan is starting the match tonight.
Anyone else hear this or is it true.
I’m sure Ives will start a USMNT thread soon so I might just have to wait.
And once again, TFC’s back line is atrocious.
The Slovenia-Czech R. game is excruciating and it makes me want to die.
I don’t have DirectKick so I don’t know about all of that. I am on MLSNet Match Center and the game is on with a really good picture.
It costs 20 bucks and is worth it.
Eddie Gaven has given up being a quality player and has decided to just start divin’ when a defender is near.
Stefan Frei is a beast in the goal.
Schelotto PK for a 1-0 Crew lead at half.
TFC’s Super Vitti has had one touch and hit a weak, weak shot right at Hesmer.
If you can’t watch this match you aren’t missing much, it has been boring.
crowd is 50% Crew, 25% TFC, and 25% Empty.
Netherlands virtually clinching their group right now being up 2-0 on Scotland
There were 2 or 3 games where this happened last year as well. Unbelievable
I did see where Schelotto scored a PK in the 30′.
C’bus 1-0 TFC in the 44′
Apparently inDemand doesn’t realize they are supposed to be showing games today:
http://www.indemand.com/sports/mls/
Today’s games:
No games are scheduled today????
For those still hoping for a change of heart, Subotic subbed into the Serbian lineup in the 65′ today in the match vs Romania.
CSD – I had the same luck last year, DK is worth having considering you get nearly every game for the season for $79 or whatever it is.
First Time I ever order a sports package and my MLS Direct Kick is jacked up and won’t work. I was really looking forward to the TFC v Columbus match up.
The guy at Comcast in Atlanta that took my call had never watched a soccer game in his life and I told him about the USMNT game tonight, he said he might watch a few minutes. If my cable goes down a few thousand more times and I get a few thousand more Comcast call center workers to watch soccer maybe Atlanta will get an MLS Club one day 🙂
the goltv commentators are a joke…that scotish guy needs to stop yelling and screaming at every shot.
Are the Czech’s the only ones singing? I cant tell.
Is it just me, or is the TFC Live Blog not working Today
Slovenia should have scored there…
The Slovenian statium looks beautiful. Gorgeous country, gorgeous stadium.
Go Slovenia!