You should call it football then. :tongue2:

 

Traitor

 

egg.zactly.

 

When is the game?

 

England I think will win, but the U.S will make it tough for them. 1-0 or 2-1 win by the English I'm going for.

 

An Irishman is going to root for the English?? What is this world coming too??

 

Merge with wc thread?


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:lol:

Hey dont get me wrong, I certainly wont be rooting for England. Its just I think they will be the better team over 90 minutes.

 

The US team will pull off the upset.

 

To quote Matt Damon in 'The Good Shepherd': "You people are just visiting."

 

Unfortunately I think this is the worst big-team matchup for the USA.

Against other teams they could try to use their supreme conditioning, strength, and brute force style of play to make up for their lack of technique and skill. But if there's one team that matches or exceeds the USA in conditioning and strength, it's England, and we all know their technique is far inferior to England's as well

I'll be rootin hard for the USA, but I see it 3-1 England

 

arizona should write a law to deport you!!

 

Just saw that jozy has been hospitalized with a sprained ankle..muust be pretty bad to be hospitalized

Hope he's ready to against England


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USA !
USA !
USA !

A Scotsman will NEVER support England

 

A citizen of the United States. It's not where you're from, it's what you are.

 

:lol:

Quoted, bolded, and reded for truth.

 

We gave them Casinos and super-sweet tax breaks. They're good. Sam will fill you in.

USA could win this game. I doubt they will, but no one thought they could beat Spain or Brazil last year and they nearly beat both.

 

You are stuck in 2006.

 

It's pretty much the same US team this year.

Are you debating that USA's technique and skill is near that of England's?

 

I am debating wether you have seen the US National team play since 2006.

 

its hard to say we will win, but we have a really good shot here. they may be more skilled overall and can match our strengths, our team is good enough to spring enough counter attacks to score on them

 

USA has pretty much the same team as they did in 2006. And don't get me wrong. That was a pretty good team. They were the only team that truly outplayed Italy for the entire match.

These guys are older now and on the wrong side of their primes.

You also have to look at England who has been playing much better soccer the last two years then they did leading up to the 2006 World Cup.

It was never a knock on the U.S. It was more a credit to England, who IMO, is the team to beat after Spain and Brazil.

 

That is the whole point.

THEY DON'T.

 

15-12 US in the highest scoring match ever!

Ok...1-0 US on an English Own Goal.

 

a lot of the names are the same from '06, but almost the whole squad has been playing overseas in some capacity and it has raised their play. the problem is that all the guys have to show up. our country is good enough to field 11-13 guys but not the whole squad.

england's ferdinand appears to be out though

 

Here is a list of the US Squad for the World Cup in 2006. The players in bold are also apart of the 2010 squad.

1 GK Tim Howard
2 DF Chris Albright
3 DF Carlos Bocanegra
4 MF Pablo Mastroeni
5 MF John O'Brien
6 DF Steve Cherundolo
7 MF Eddie Lewis
8 MF Clint Dempsey
9 FW Eddie Johnson
10 MF Claudio Reyna
11 FW Brian Ching
12 DF Gregg Berhalter
13 DF Jimmy Conrad
14 MF Ben Olsen
15 MF Bobby Convey
16 FW Josh Wolff
17 MF DaMarcus Beasley
18 GK Kasey Keller
19 GK Marcus Hahnemann
20 FW Brian McBride
21 FW Landon Donovan
22 DF Oguchi Onyewu
23 DF Eddie Pope

Only eight return out of the 23 that were brought in 2006. However I think 5 to 6 of those players will probably start come the first game vs England, so both of you have a point in what your saying. Even though the squad is quite different, the starting 11 will be made up of quite a number of guys who played in 06.

 

I dont think that the good old USA have it to win the game. It is probably the poorest England team I have seen going into a World Cup, so maybe that is a good omen for us :lol:

As for the Irish and the Scots among you, I love the rivalry, I wouldn't expect anything else. But in a war I love the fact that you are by our side. Some of the best soldiers in the British army are Welsh, Scots or Irish :tongue2:

 

All of which are MUCH better players NOW than they were in 06'.

 

I think England wins the head to head, but hoping for a USA win.

 

2-1 USA. That's too bad about Beckham. But they have other guys who are better.

 

I'll be surprised if the US wins this, honestly.

 

England 3-1, but both squads should advance out of their group.

 

The Americans will advance...and then get slapped silly after the group stage. Every year we hear about this being the year they make noise. To me it is simple, they get a free pass every year because of the weakness of their region and then fold when they play real clubs.