Jay Lucky

Okay, first off… the USA team may have had a shitty call made on them when a PK was handed over to Pimpong because Onyewu was supposedly pushing him down. This I will agree with whole heartedly and Bruce Arena wasn’t to kind about it either.. BUT! And this is a big but… USA played like shit. They deserved to lose, I think. Yeah sure, I live here in the good ol’ US of A, but fuck… I don’t care. You play like shit, you deserve to get booted out of the tournament. Where the fuck was Donovan? Where was Beasley? Eddie Johnson tried to work for the ball in the last 20 minutes of the game, but come on, it was a poor showing by the USA. Reyna pretty much gave up that first half goal to Draman in the 22nd minute, good thing he’s retiring. The only saving grace was Dempsey’s bullet of a goal in the 43rd. It could have been won… but players failing to step up, even after the shitty call, ultimately led to them being eliminated. A poor poor showing by the USA. Ghana wins it, 2 - 1. Sometimes I wish I lived somewhere else…

If you want to see how to really play football, look no further than Sweden (at least for today). Senderos nails a header off a set piece and follows through into the face of Jin-Chul. Now that’s how you play for a goal. It was an absolute stunner of a header… one of the better ones I’ve seen so far. Sweden went on to win 2 - nil, scoring another goal after the referee continued play eventhough the line judge called the ball offsides. I watched this play over and over in slow motion on my DVR… this was an absolutely wonderful call by the referee. The line judge called it wrong and the ref overruled it, allowing for Frei to play on and score. Quite a bit of controversy over this goal today, but if you really look at it, Frei was onsides when Margairaz played it. It was deflected forward to Frei by a Korean defender, which is what the line judge mistook for a pass. Brilliant call.

Round of 16 starts tomorrow with Germany vs. Ecuador and Argentina vs. Mexico. I’d love to see an upset here with Ecuador defeating Germany, but I really doubt that will happen. I think Argentina is going to crush Mexico… but we’ll see!