Thursday, June 21, 2007

USA Gets By Panama, 2-1 In Gold Cup Quarterfinals

It's becoming a tired old thing to watch- very poor refereeing & especially calls that go against the US. Now, I'm not talking about questionable calls & a fan's bitching about his team not getting calls. I'm talking about blatant "What The Fuck are the 4 officials looking at? Are they watching the same game?," type of calls. This time the officials missed a ridiculously blatant on purpose handball by Panama captain, Felipe Baloy. He was already sitting on as yellow card & his ass should've been sent off for the offense, but nope, not against the US in soccer. I've just come to the conclusion that all the self-loathing Leftists that feel guilt about America's past & current administration & policies should watch soccer- because the world's soccer officials stick it to us constantly. Either that or CONCACAF regional officials are a fucking joke & completely amateur in quality. Either way, it's fucking pathetic most of the time.

Anywho, the US won, 2-1, should've scored possibly 1 or 2 more plus should've been facing 10 Panamaniacs instead of 11. The game was played this past Saturday, I've just drug ass all week & am only now getting around to posting.

Lineups
Panama: Jaime Pinedo; Carlos Rivera, Luis Moreno, Juan Perez, Blas Perez; Manuel Torres, Ricardo Phillips, Engin Mitre (Nicolas Munoz, 63'), Amilcar Henriquez (Alberto Blanco, 78'); Victor herrera (Luis Henriquez, 78'), Felipe Baloy

United States: Tim Howard; Frankie Hejduk, Oguchi Onyewu, Carlos Bocanegra, Jonathan Bornstein; Michael bradley, Pablo Mastroeni, Landon Donovan (Ricard Clark, 89'), DaMarcus Beasley; Taylor Twellman (Steve Ralston, 71'), Clint Dempsey (Brian Ching, 84')

Goals
60' USA, Donovan (PK)
62' USA, Bocanegra (Beasley)
84' PAN, B. Perez

Cards
16' PAN, Torres
18' PAN, Balloy
22' PAN, B.Perez
28' USA, Hejduk
35' USA, Onyewu
49' PAN, J. Perez
76' PAN, Torres
87' USA, Beasley
89' PAN, Munoz
90' USA, Howard

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