One minute and 20 seconds into the match we were already down one goal. Thirteen minutes into it we were two goals down. This, obviously, complicates every effort players can make in order to come out with a positive result.
I heard many complaints about the pitch. "Too hard", "the ball bounces too much"...bunch of non-sense. "The crowd was too loud..." Give me a break! If we want to use these excuses again, does it mean that when we go against Mexico away we should expect to get badly beaten also?
Bottom line is Bob Bradley continues to make the same mistakes over-and-over again, game-after-game. Lining up Onyewu and Beasley might be acceptable against weaker teams, only if he has nobody else to line up. But against more competitive teams, such as Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico it will always come back to haunt us. Beasley's contribution against Costa Rica was nill. Onyewu's contribution even worse. Even Michael Bradley, his son, Landon Donovan, Jozy Altidore, and others had way-off performances. No time to cry over the spilled milk. We got beat 3-1, Costa Rica displaced us from first place, and it is now time to regroup, think, and prepare for the battle against Honduras at Soldier Field in Chicago this coming Saturday. We will be without Michael Bradley and Sacha Kljestan who will serving a one-game suspension due to yellow cards.
Let's hope we are able to regroup after this loss, and this was not the beginning of a debacle for the US team.
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