US up 1-0 on Italy (soccer)

Yeah, yeah, yeah...not an American sport, not really important...blah-blah-blah...but, Italy is the defending world champions, and one of the better teams in the world. The US has been struggling as of late, including a loss to Costa Rica in CONCACAF World Cup qualifying.

Halftime, and the US is up 1-0 thanks to a penalty kick drilled in by Landon Donovan.

Only bad news is Ricardo Clark got a red card around the 30 min mark, which puts the US a man down for the rest of the game. I doubt the US can hold up 10 vs. 11 against Italy for nearly 70 min's, but we'll see.

Wish I was home to watch this.

On any other day I'd be watching it,but I'm flipping over during commercials to take a peek. Virginia-Cal State Fullerton on the other ESPN in a git-r-done or you are done special at Omaha.

1-1 all...Italy got an equalizer from one of their subs (Rossi) around the 60th minute. The ESPN guy writing this blog rundown says the US just can't pull a possession back and make a run to put some pressure on Italy and make them play D. Looks like 30 min's of hell for the US defense if they're gonna pull the draw. It'd take a special efford to get another goal and get the W going 10 on 11 against this bunch.

2-1 Italy. Rossi nets another from about 35 yards out. This cat's on fire--the other goal was from about 30 yards out. Not looking good for the guys in red/white/blue.

beating the italians is hard enough, but for a squad like the americans being down a man isnt good at all....from what i could tell at least they are playing better...they looked horrible against costa rica

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Originally Posted by burton2019

beating the italians is hard enough, but for a squad like the americans being down a man isnt good at all....from what i could tell at least they are playing better...they looked horrible against costa rica

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Yeah--the blogger for ESPN wrote that the red card given to Clark was BS--should have been a yellow for sure, but it wasn't anywhere near bad enough for a red.

3-1 Italy final. Pirlo controlled the pace of the match, and Rossi added the goal-scoring spark as a sub in the 2nd half. I really would have liked to have seen what the US could have done had they not been a man down for nearly 70 minutes out of the 93 played.

the US cant compete with italy, italy has too much talent all over the field


we cant match messi or rossi


and i love soccer, it roped me in 2005 and ive been a huge fan ever since

messi plays for argentina doesnt he?

The second goal was de rossi. Rossi got the 1st and 3rd goals. Not bad for an American playing for the Italians. The US played well, overall, but made a few stupid mistakes. Howard tried going across field and sent it OB. Just bad stuff. Donovan played well. I wouldn't say we can't play with Italy. Every match between the two teams has been close to the best of my recollection. The Italian D just wasn't pressured much after the US went down a man.

The US caught a break today beating Egypt 3-0 and Brazil beating Italy by 3 to advance. That was definitely the toughest group. I think you could see a Brazil/US rematch in the final.

italy laid an egg, how brazil put up 3 on them is beyond me


ive not watched a lot of this tourney, im saving myself for south africa next year

Not only did Brazil put up 3 on them, they done it in the first 8 minutes if I am not mistaken. That is crazy. Brazil struck fast in each match so far. Egypt played really well against them in the first half.

who all is playing for brazil?


is kaka, ronaldo, or robinho?

kaka and robinho are, but ronaldo isnt, it was the first 44 mins that brazil put 3 on them

Were they all together or something? I was thinking I read that at least.

they were all like in 8-10 minutes of one another