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USA score 3 minutes in Rapinoe to Lloyd, corner kick.
Edit for piss poor spelling
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Lloyd gets another
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Holiday gets one at 14 minutes. Three to zip
annabanana
(52,791 posts)pscot
(21,024 posts)joshcryer
(62,269 posts)USA USA USA!
muriel_volestrangler
(101,307 posts)It must be hard for a football manager to find positives when your side has conceded 68 goals in its last two matches and scored none, but for the coach of the Federated States of Micronesia looking on the bright side is part of the job.
We did quite well in the second half, said Stan Foster after overseeing a 38-0 defeat to Fiji in the Pacific Games on Sunday, two days after a 30-0 loss to Tahiti. The marking was slack in the first half so I told them to make sure they marked man to man, and that worked out a lot better.
All things being relative, Foster had a point. Micronesia conceded only 17 goals in the second half, compared with 21 in the first. This was possibly a result of his audacious tactical decision to replace the goalkeeper Walter Pengelbew with midfielder Dominic Gadad at half-time. It was one of several scarcely believable moments in a match that bolstered Micronesias candidacy for the title of worst international football team in history.
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The eventual goal haul eclipses Australias record of 31-0 against American Samoa in 2001, but as this was officially an under-23 contest, Fijis place in the history books is uncertain. Not that Carlos took any pleasure in the margin of victory. He was concerned solely about goal difference.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/05/fiji-hammer-micronesia-38-0-in-record-international-win-at-pacific-games
And, of course, while I was writing this, USA scored another two/
joshcryer
(62,269 posts)Though nothing beats Brazil's thrashing by Germany.
Carli Lloyd is my hero.
mcar
(42,302 posts)Go women!
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Lloyd gets another from mid field
mcar
(42,302 posts)Just narrowly missed another.
Baitball Blogger
(46,700 posts)This is the reason why you should do a better job of stack ranking the groupings.
The Japanese will win second place, but that score will haunt them forever. This will be a grueling seventy minutes.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Sometimes revenge is a hot dish!!!
USA! USA! USA!
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Unless I blinked and we scored again.
malaise
(268,930 posts)rufus dog
(8,419 posts)By Japan at 27 min. Scoreless streak is over
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Love that we're winning but this will end up a baseball score if the US doesn't have mercy
jimlup
(7,968 posts)The USA still has to show that they can keep their heads and play defense as needed.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Japan within 2.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Gets one in a minute. 5~2
nilesobek
(1,423 posts)The US got Japan back this time, but Japan made a helluva comeback 4 years ago.