geez why is there so much bickering? The US were the more impressive team? why, because they were expected to lose by 2 goals by most accounts. and they actually exploited some weaknesses of the english that they needed to. They shutdown rooney, outside of the first 5 mins lampard and gerrard were lackluster on the offensive end, and tim howard wasn't forced to make incredible saves. I would venture to say his stops were solid by his account not necessarily spectacular... and he was the only player in that game for either side that looked stable from the get-go. he was solid and the play he took a shot in the chest was 50/50...not necessarily spectacular. Were the US had the struggle was keeping possession in the midfield in the second half and lackluster play from findley/altidore(although jozy was unlucky not to score a goal).
there are some changes that need to be made. I thought bradley had a hell of a game. clark needs to go, findley needs to go...he is a poor man's charlie davies. that is a good idea by bradley to regain some of that confed cup magic, but he just doesn't have the ball skills. I would still think about moving dempsey up and bringing holden on the right side with landon on the left. it might help with possession and getting quality service into the box with a pure goal scorer in dempsey. either that or make this change after 45 so dempsey doesn't look gassed at the end.
All in all, sloppy, rubbish, or lucky, whatever you wanna call it, i'll take it. The USA keep getting results against teams that they shouldn't. so you can hate or say the USA was fortunate, that is fine by me. But they are getting better as time goes on. now we will see how they handle the role of being the favorite. this will be a first.
