USA v Antigua

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Jurgen Klinsmann's USA side are kicking off their WCQ campaign around now if anyone's interested.

Antigua's whole population could fit into the 75,000 seater Tampa stadium, but with household names such as Dexter Blackstock and Mikele Leigertwood in their side can they provide an upset?

The Guardian are providing a live ticker for the match. God knows why.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jun/08/world-cup-2014-usa-antigua-live

BKC

USA will hammer them. They looked decent in their recent friendly against Scotland.

G.K.

Oh god, McCoy is playing.

Down here in Wycombe he's percieved as some kind of footballing god by my mates who like football. I don't really know why. They'll be raving about him for hours now...

monkey9

Household names?? I've heard of Dexter Blackstock alright! But unless you're house is located in Antigua, you're expression is way off the mark, unless you're being a tad facetious.

A household name is someone like Ryan Giggs or Steven Gerrard!!

kitakyushu

Have the Barbuda lads been given the day off?

kryogen

USA have been a bit of a pain in the ass to back lately, but they really should annihilate Antigua, they have never even played a team of the USA's quality I think.

kryogen

kitakyushu wrote: »

Have the Barbuda lads been given the day off?

Couldn't afford to bring everyone! Not made of money you know

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monkey9 wrote: »

Household names?? I've heard of Dexter Blackstock alright! But unless you're house is located in Antigua, you're expression is way off the mark, unless you're being a tad facetious.

A household name is someone like Ryan Giggs or Steven Gerrard!!

Leigertwood will be gracing the Premier League with Reading next season, always liked him.

Five of the starting lineup play in England btw.

Professional Griefer

Come on Antigua!!

kryogen

USA starting with the usual ****eness that has been a trademark of Klinnsmans reign

monkey9

Is the bloke updating the Guardian feed watching this on an illegal feed??

kryogen

Come on!

Professional Griefer

Balls.

Paul Tergat

Didnt take long

monkey9

Where To wrote: »

Leigertwood will be gracing the Premier League with Reading next season, always liked him.

Five of the starting lineup play in England btw.

Do they really?? Never heard of them at all. As i say, i've only heard of Blackstock!! Where is Blackstock playing these days??

kryogen

1-0! Knew if I posted disparagingly about them they would get into gear

kryogen

monkey9 wrote: »

Is the bloke updating the Guardian feed watching this on an illegal feed??

He probably watching it on bet365 like me

kryogen

The Yanks have some funny chants in fairness to them

Collibosher

monkey9 wrote: »

Do they really?? Never heard of them at all. As i say, i've only heard of Blackstock!! Where is Blackstock playing these days??

He's at Nottingham Forest.

kryogen

Horrible effort

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kryogen wrote: »

USA have been a bit of a pain in the ass to back lately, but they really should annihilate Antigua, they have never even played a team of the USA's quality I think.

What odds did you get? On PP they were 1/80.

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Balls. Had to go with a wedding load here. Any sign of a fightback?

kitakyushu

Just looking a the concacaf qualification process. It's quite unwieldy. If you were a first round team you'd theoretically play 2 first round games, 6 second round, 6 third round and 10 fourth round. Even teams like the USA will have to play 16 games.

kryogen

The USA are so poor in front of goal the last while, with the players they have they should be scoring so much more then they do

kitakyushu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiran_Murtagh

kryogen

Ix Deadmau5 wrote: »

What odds did you get? On PP they were 1/80.

1/80? Jesus

They were 1/25 during the week, then 1/50, just before KO they were 1/40 on bet365, dunno about anywhere else

kryogen

I have to mark this day down, this is the day I give up completely on the USA from a betting POV.

Agent Smith

Jamaica - Guatemala is where its at!


on at 2:30am

kryogen

Could get out of jail here

kitakyushu

Field goal attempt from the 12 yard line!

kryogen

Lucky bastard!
Get in there all the same!!

Paul Tergat

3-1 now Kryo - got your 4 goals

kryogen

Yeah they are hard work though aren't they!

I turned off after it went 3-1, watching Mexico now as I also need that game to go over 3.5, currently 3-0

kryogen

And boom goes the dynamite

3-1 Mexico, job done, doubles up, trebles up Im off to bed cause the Aussie games be on soon

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Antigua Drew 0-0 with Jamaicaman tonight, the impossible dream continues . . . .

BKC

USA playing Guatemala @3AM if anyone is interested.

Where To wrote: »

Antigua Drew 0-0 with Jamaicaman tonight, the impossible dream continues . . . .

Next up is Guatemala who Jamaica beat 2-1 last week.

They can do it!

kitakyushu

Where To wrote: »

Antigua Drew 0-0 with Jamaicaman tonight, the impossible dream continues . . . .

(Almost) Impossible is right. It must be the hardest federation of all for any upcoming team (not counting OFC , which can be discounted in most discussions anyway). Only 3.5 places available and USA/Mexico have pretty much owned two of them for 20 years now.

Just to make things worse you have to go thru 16 games just to do it (or 22 in A&B's case.

On the plus side the 4th Concacaf team plays the OFC winner this time round so it'll be easier than Costa Rica got last time around (drawn v Uruguay).

BKC

USA XI: Howard; Cherundolo, Goodson, Bocanegra, Johnson; Edu, Bradley, Jones; Donovan, Dempsey, Gomez.

kryogen

How did the wasters get on?

mayordenis

Seems it was 1-1

BKC

I went to sleep at half-time. Terrible game.

kryogen

USA have been a disaster under Klinnsmann, sooner he goes the better