By SBI SOCCER
The U.S. Men’s National Team returns to action for the first time since the 2015 Gold Cup when they face Peru tonight at RFK Stadium (7:30pm, Fox Sports 1/UniMas).
The Americans have a crucial Confederations Cup playoff match against Mexico in October, and tonight’s friendly is one of two matches the U.S. has to prepare itself for that all-important match. Jurgen Klinsmann has called in a veteran group of players, and will be looking for combinations that can help his team against Mexico.
Jermaine Jones is back in the field after a long time away, while Jozy Altidore is back in the lineup after a disappointing Gold Cup. He will wear the captain’s armband today.
SBI will be providing live commentary on tonight’s match so please feel free 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, and YES, IT’S WORKING NOW):
The subs were perfect. Can’t hate klinsy for the subs. Starters yes subs no
+3 and it’s become +5?
right? that ref had some biased calls all game… ($$$???…)
That was weird, though, no? Very fairly called game, totally even. But what was going on at the end there?
The subs were perfect. Can’t hate klinsy for the subs. Starters yes subs no
Zardes is worth the price of admission. The young players including Ream and Besler really impressive tonight.
Ream and Besler aren’t exactly young but they played well nonetheless.
Besler/Cameron much more sure in defense. How can JK keep running Brooks and Alvarado etc. in their places.
Maybe because Brooks and Alvarado are about 6 years younger than Besler and Cameron and Klinsmann is looking at the next WC. Cameron wasn’t in the Gold Cup because either he or his club wanted him to recover from injury and be ready for the next EPL season.
Kind of crazy that Jozy is now just 1 goal behind McBride who is 4th all time goals for US.
+1
also kinda crazy to come to this thread in the 75′ and read all the Jozy hate for pages and then a sudden stop… lol. PK earned, rebound finished, then a second “wondo”(lol) goal. cool. blame jozy for the lack of passing from the back, etc…right…
tough game to watch but we’re plodding through like a good team would (?)
I looked it up yesterday. McBride got his 30 goals in 95 games, Jozy has 29 in 84. Wtynalda had 34 in 106, so Jozy’s scoring rate is now a bit better than both McBride and Wynalda. But the haters will continue to hate.
Jozy with the brace. I totally called it on the open thread. Suck it Jozy haters!
Really excellent pass by Jozy (to Yedlin) on the sequence leading to that goal. Like, could not have been better.
Dirty play there Peru
All you experts, and nothing much to say about our recently anointed one Brad Guzan, watching the game from a point way off his line. paid the price!
Jozy doing the captain’s work and making something out of nothing by earning a PK.
If “making something out of nothing” means a big guy flopping at the slightest bit of contact, yeah, I agree. He is a great representation of what it means or be an American athlete.
the defender quite clearly clipped his legs, hard to run when someone stops your feet from moving… but keep searching for reasons…
Please. He was pulled back. A clear foul, and one that he created. He put himself in a position to be fouled, and he made no mistake to sell it. That’s a captain’s play, whether you think Jozy’s leonine loping is “lazy” (unlike Dempsey’s leonine loping, which is “crafty”).
Which is not to say the PK wasn’t garbage! Nice rebound though.
+1 on the Jozy:Clint – Lazy:Crafty oddity
crappy*
Mix giving some living to the attack but Woods having crapping game.
Almost missed 🙂
Don’t miss!
Tim Ream has been the best US player out there, and that makes me sad.
Zardes was the best player tonight
Zardes chocked!
He had the biggest ones out there. Idk at this point if klinsy can get them motivated as he used to.
OK…gotta give Zardes credit as well.
Jozy clearly lacking fitness and so is bedoya. Jones seems to be slightly ahead of those two fitness wise. Gyasi fit as a fiddle and perhaps the only bright spot. Gonnzo needed to step up, not back, on that play – ha. Appropriately subbed for Ventura. I must say, jozy valiantly came into the game after he slowed down. First ten minutes good, next 30 terrible, last 5 not too bad. Should be 1-1, Brooks. jozy and bedoya obviously lacking fitness but they need the minutes. At least jozy linked up, wood was unable to put any stamp on the gme at all – and they have no chemistry, those two. All things considered, strange he didn’t start johannsson up top with alti.
Gotta disagree. Gonzo played it right. If you commit too early, then you are vulnerable to being dribbled around. I have had that happen to me. Omar got the block in, it was a total fluke goal. Later in the game in a similar situation Ream played the attacker the exact same way, but he didn’t shoot and Ream cut him off and Friedel complimented Ream for playing it just right.
Gotta disagree. Gonzo needed to step up and applied pressure to an open man just outside the box a hundred times out of a hundred times.
Some of these boys need to watch the U.S. women…including Altidore. They would get a lesson on how to play with passion and heart.
Jones is the only one out there that plays with some cajones.
The second half is going to be real Gold Cupy. Minus Dempsey scoring a goal of course
Just not seeing it with JJ tonight. Again, seems off.
I believe in the gospel and I believe we will win
I actually think Alvarado should be at RB and Cameron at CB but what do I know?
Effing mix? Wow push jj up and being in morales to sit behind the cms
I bet Mix scores just because everyone’s been hating on him haha
Mix has more great games with USNT than NYC, in this year.
I like klinsnam maybe I’m a fanboy but man he needs to get these guys motivated, wood n Jozy look like they just came off the special bus. Midfield with bedoya looks crap. The defense looks ok ppl killing Alvarado and brooks for getting burned but at least they aren’t trying to play free safety in front of the box…… Omar
Coaching regimes have an expiration date. Looks like Klinsmann’ s has ran its course and he has lost the locker room. I haven’t seen a team so uninterested since…… the gold cup. He needs to go.
Defense is not the problem! but the forawrds! No Wooten!!!
There’s “pride’ Jones’ pride of cubs.
Just brutal with young lions and one king in jj we can’t attack as a pack even in the counter there is always 1 or 2 left not finding positions to help out the team. Is it the formation?
*Ream
7. Yeah brooks should have done better
8. Real does well
1. Other than one sequence, seems Jones is a bit off.
2. Zardes looks good.
3. (Un)lucky goal
4. Jozy meh
5. Midfield isn’t well gelled.
6. Back line seems ok.
5. Bedoya seems un-creative and tire as CM.
It’s sad that I thought that half was a fairly decent performance. The Gold Cup lowered my standards considerably.
I agree. The team seem a bit more gelled with Jones as DM, more control of the tempo, while our forwards seem like headless chickens.
I must have wandered onto a Mexican troll site by mistake.
+1
Zardes is our only positive player
“WE’RE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. STAY TUNED.”
LOL Let me guess, it keeps sending you to the app store!!!!
Man I wish Zardes or Yedlin could actually cross the ball. They are threatening but with very little end product.
Wooten needs to play at 45 minutes, anyway, Woods seems to be playing an ‘off day’.
Jones is the real USNT’s Captain!
Wow you can’t spell whiff now without JAB
What’s bedoyas purpose on this team? He just takes up space with very little production. This game is so bad for the U.S. So far they look lazy
Clutching and grabbing the man that just beat him.
This team will not beat Brazil or Mexico
And all the fanboys with their heads up Klinsman’s rectum say “he’s a great coach; he took Germany to the final 4 in 2006.” News Flash: it’s GERMANY. A brain dead monkey could take Germany to the quarterfinals. Klinsman took them one game farther than a brain dead monkey.
Germany won’t let you coach their national team. Are you worse than a brain dead monkey?
35m and counting with zero attacking chances. Fml I Haye watching this team since the game after Germany. To complacent.
Possible*
How is it particle that the team looks un interested in playing together in the midfield?
Because everybody is playing out of position and there is no true AM.,….. therefore no shots
Bedoya has played AM some for Nantes. Not sure if that was the idea or not.
U.S. Kids need to play more street soccer. They’re softies
You can’t spell “joke” without JK. Kinsman is a hack.
blah blah blah. Maybe you should hold off on all your bellyaching until after the game. Looks like JK just made you “William the Bi+ch.”
Seriously Jozy is slow.. He slows down the whole team. He strtuts as if he’s better than everyone out there just cause he played in the EPL once upon a time
You stupid Americans don’t really know soccer. That is not slow jogging dummkopf, that is Jozy’s fast gear.
We need to express ourselves more boys. Never mind that the only shot came from Jones…Jozy is my man
I dunno…a two goal night doesn’t seem like something to complain about. Be a mensch and admit you were wrong.
patience, and thou shalt be delivered…
The team is just walking around. No pressure whatsoever Jozy is just doing nothing but slow jogging