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I thought we played the Germany game right - and Portugal too (perhaps until our last sub put us out of formation, but that's a quibble that's irrelevant if we don't give away the ball).Waquoit said:If one uses the Belgium-Argentina game to disparage the USA-BEL result, wouldn't it be honest to positively reevaluate the USA performance based on this result?
I thought maybe we would have to come forward more against Germany around minute 83-85 if the Ghana-Portugal game stayed the way it was, just to try to clinch second place on our own and not rely on the other game. But Ronaldo got a key goal to minimize the risk of a Ghana win and we could stay content with 1-0.
The one goal was just simply well struck off an unsettled situation following a save, but other than that, Hioward had to deal with a couple tough low crosses and Klose just missed on a header when we let him slip through unmarked, but we were pretty well organized and didn't give then anything easy. Gonzalez responded very well to the start with a couple good reads.