USA, Argentina tie in last warm-up before World Cup qualifying [Archive]

obie7661

06-09-2008, 03:42 AM

USA, Argentina tie in last warm-up before World Cup qualifying

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/national/2008-06-08-us-argentina_N.htm

austinsm11

06-09-2008, 07:03 AM

About time the US is scheduling quality opponents. Disappointing that they didn't win a game, but the US showed improvement each game (0-2 against England, 0-1 against Portugal, 0-0 against Argentina). Playing these quality teams should only help when they take on Barbados to begin World Cup qualifying.

They actually possessed the ball very well against #1 ranked Argentina and had several scoring opportunites. One header hit off the crossbar and a couple close range shots were deflected.

Goalkeeping is solid for the US, but they have no goal scorer. Jozy Altidore is about 2 years away from being the guy for the US.

Nice to see the large crowd of 78,000 at Giants stadium as well.