USA vs Panama. Panama goes home.

Game was played in Kansas City.  Home of the MLS team Sporting Kansas CityCity.  Game was sold out.  With the US team winning both games in the group prior, they had already guaranteed passage to the quarter finals.  Panama on the other hand needed a fore sure victory win to get a 2nd place finish and avoid going and crash out of the tournament.  The US played some players who didn’t play prior in the other games, and finally got rid of Jozy Altidore who has been useless.  Game was a bit slow at start but a goal was taken away from Panama for offsides.  Panama finally had a chance to score after Blas Perez put them on a goal after slipping behind the defender John Brooks.  USA almost equalized shortly when Alejandro Bedoya was set free from the half way line but he got fouled near the penalty box and the referee didn’t even give out a foul,  red card for sure since he was the last man.  Game went 1-0 into half time.  Second half,  Klinsmann made some quick changes putting in Clint Dempsey and DeAndre Yedlin in the line up.  Some fancy passing by the US lead to a goal by Michael Bradley.  Rest of the game went back and forth with hardly any shots at goal. The US didn’t have anything to prove really in this game as even if they would of lost they go through. One thing is for sure is that when Dempsey doesn’t play, the US team is like a chicken with it’s a head cut off.  It’s hard to say what will happen when this generation moves on, who will take the place of Donovan and Dempsey.   Whatever happened to that wonder kid Freddy Adu? He is still 27 years old, seems like he’s never aged, although he started professionally at only 14 years old and peaked somewhere around 18.   Game finished 1-1 with Anibal Godoy from Panama, winning Match of the Match honors, very little consolation for a great Panamanian team.  No holding back now as the US is now in the Quarter Finals and every game is elimination.

Until next game.
-frank mar

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