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Julian Green

 

Julian Green’s continued battle for playing time continues today as he and Hamburg take on Eintracht Frankfurt.

Green missed Hamburg’s mid-week loss to Borussia Moenchengladbach with a rib injury, but could be back in action today as last-place Hamburg search for their first win of the season.

In France, first-place Marseille take on fifth place Saint Etienne in what should be one of the day’s more intense affairs. Marcelo Bielsa’s Marseille side has been one of the revelations of the season, but could have their hands full against a Saint Etienne unbeaten in three.

In MLS, the Los Angeles Galaxy play host to the New York Red Bulls in one of the league’s marquee match-ups.

If you will be watching today’s action, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments ection below.

Enjoy the action (Today’s Soccer TV schedule is after the jump):

TODAY’S SOCCER ON TV

8am – beIN Sports Connect – Bordeaux vs. Rennes

8:15am – beIN Sports Connect – Reading vs. Wolverhampton Wanderers

9am – beIN Sports USA/beIN Sports Connect – Cesena vs. AC Milan

9am – beIN Sports en Español/beIN Sports Connect – Inter Milan vs. Cagliari

9am – beIN Sports Connect – Torino vs. Fiorentina

9:30am – GOLTV USA – Augsburg vs. Hertha BSC

11am – NBC Sports/NBC Sports Live Extra – West Bromwich Albion vs. Burnley

11am – beIN Sports Connect – Lens vs. Caen

11am – beIN Sports Connect – Nantes vs. Olympique Lyonnais

11am – beIN Sports en Español/beIN Sports Connect – Deportivo La Coruña vs. Almería

11am – beIN Sports Connect – Mallorca vs. Barcelona II

11am – beIN Sports Connect – Numancia vs. Girona

11:30am – GOLTV USA – Hamburger SV vs. Eintracht Frankfurt

1pm – beIN Sports en Español/beIN Sports Connect – Real Sociedad vs. Valencia

1pm – Univision Deportes – Pumas UNAM vs. Chiapas

1pm – ESPN3 – North Carolina vs. North Carolina State (men’s soccer)

1pm – ESPN3 – North Carolina vs. North Carolina State (women’s soccer)

2:45pm – beIN Sports Connect – Genoa vs. Sampdoria

3pm – MLS Live/Univision Deportes – Houston Dynamo vs. Chicago Fire

3pm – beIN Sports USA/beIN Sports Connect – Olympique Marseille vs. Saint-Étienne

3pm – beIN Sports en Español/beIN Sports Connect – Córdoba vs. Espanyol

3pm – GOLTV USA – Atlético PR vs. Corinthians

5:30pm – GOLTV USA – Peñarol vs. River Plate

6pm – Univision Deportes – Guadalajara vs. Puebla

8:30pm – ESPN2/ESPN Deportes/MLS Live – LA Galaxy vs. New York Red Bulls

Comments

  1. I agree with Wood Chip Zip. Green has done very little anywhere but it’s not his fault that the US media and JK are trying to make him into the next big thing. He’s just trying to get ahead any way he can but he isn’t ready at this point for the unasked for hype he generates. He’s a prospect at best and there are many in MLS that are as good if not better than him. The other media favorite, Altadore is sinking lower on his club’s depth chart as time goes on. He never got off the bench yesterday. No big article on that though. Maybe his team is looking for goals, not hold up play?

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    • How is he “a prospect at best”? He’s already played in top flight competitions for two professional clubs and has played and scored at a World Cup for his country.

      Anyway, the picture is the lead in because he’s one of the more talented young players in our pool and his team plays today. People need to quit being so hypersensitive about things that have little or no importance, such as whose picture is on a blog post.

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      • See this is what upsets people (or me at least). Green has played one half for Hamburg, and was so bad he was subbed at halftime. He made one two minute sub appearance in a dead rubber UCL match when Bayern had a comfortable lead. And you write that he’s played in top level competitions for two clubs? Technically accurate but incredibly silly. When people immediately anoint these passport Americans as saviors, it’s because deep down they don’t think Americans are any good.

      • it seems as if you’re mistaking people’s interest in a player as “annointing him” etc. the most recent comment you’re replying to, Brett’s, doesnt mention anyithing about this. he simply states a couple facts, potentionally misldeading, yet no other USMNT player is playing for as big of a club (arguably Gyau). so just leave it where it should be: people arent “annointing”, rather they are curious and hopeful so the media presents accordingly. more so, Green’s rib injury is recent news so using his picture in an article leading off with an update on his status isnt wild…..

      • yes, we really should be just as excited for all the other americans who’ve made onto the field for arguably the best team in the world. there’s probably lots of them.

    • Meh. It’s not worth getting worked up over. Freddy Adu still gets his mug on here a couple dozen times a year. If there are two immutable facts about SBI, they are (1) People here utterly crave the next big thing (2) no matter how long a player/topic has been worked over, there is always somebody who just won’t let it go.

      Plenty of more entertaining stuff to get angry about, if you ask me…. But as far as Julian Green goes, you should probably expect to see his photo here at least once a week for the next 30-50 years, regardless of if he becomes a legend, flames out, switches to cricket, or dies…. even if it turns out he was onlly just a hologram to begin with.

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  2. Hertha goal keeper gave away a pen… I don’t think he was going to be able to control that ball fast enough to do anything really dangerous but he dove in anyway.

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      • You mean the game he was subbed off at halftime because he was so ineffective? I think a lot of people are annoyed because this kid is anointed the savior of US Soccer and he hasn’t done anything yet other than a shank goal against Belgium. I don’t think Green has done anything wrong or inappropriate at all, I think it’s more of a reaction by fans to other fans.

      • slowleftbrain, to shank is to miss a goal, so im not sure how the phrase “a shank goal” makes any sense…..

      • not sure how you came by your definition. a “shank” is a mis-hit–doesn’t matter what the end result of that mis-hit is.

        green mis-hit, or “shanked” his shot, and it still worked out well.

  3. Growing wearing of so many stories leading with a picture of that entitled kid who has done very little to earn it. Maybe when he is a starter or something I won’t mind.

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