And tonight, it arrives in the United States for the first time ever, with Match 1 being played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara between the US Men’s team and Columbia.
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Cristian Zapata and Edwin Cardona were among Colombia’s best, along with Caudardo.
The U.S. hosts a number of young and inexperienced players, some of who will be facing the biggest test of their careers.
In the 36th minute, Clint Dempsey found himself in space at the top of the box, but his curling effort missed the net by a few inches.
The Colombians sent James Rodriguez to the line.
Mexico saw a large contingent among the sold-out crowd at last year’s Gold Cup match against Guatemala at University of Phoenix Stadium. But James failed to score or assist and Colombia finished third in their group and were eliminated in the first knockout round. Look for Alejandro Bedoya to be tasked with hounding the Colombia midfield for about 60 minutes then making way for Nagbe and for Pulisic to bring a spark off the bench when Gyasi Zardes is tiring.
Geoff Cameron could have done better on Zapata’s goal.
Guzman said he hoped Messi could recover, but admitted he had been surprised by the Argentina captain’s decision to make a grueling round trip from Spain just to appear in the Honduras friendly. That said, it was a perfectly played corner kick by Colombia. With Bradley marking Daniel Torres, Zapata circled around the pair to get away from Cameron, and the defender scored his first goal in 42 global appearances. I’m not sure what more Yedlin could’ve done to avoid the situation, but the penalty was probably the right call and it was most certainly unlucky. After giving up the initial goal, the usa seemed to be gaining control of the match. Although he did get an excellent chance in the late going to give Colombia a 3rd goal, but he banged it off the crossbar. Jurgen Klinsmann’s tactics relied on Yedlin and his left back counterpart Fabian Johnson to provide attacking with by moving forward often.
Irony might not be the right word, but it was certainly unexpected to see Colombia thrive and the USA flounder on dead ball situations. The Americans are in their homefield and that they have the advantage. What’s more frustrating is how they lost. Let’s assume he sticks with the one striker and two wingers we’ve seen in recent matches. The last time these teams met was November 14, 2014, at Craven Cottage in London, where Colombia pulled out a 2-1 victory with a game-winning goal in the 87th minute.
“However, once the quarter-finals are completed, card accumulations are reset for the semi-final and final”.
The U.S.is in Group A-which SI’s Brian Straus labels the tournament’s “group of death”-and will also play Costa Rica and Paraguay in the group stage of the tournament”.
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The game starts at 8 p.m. EDT. Eastern and will be broadcast on FOX Sports 1 and UniMas. That will get you 50 percent off your rides today, and for all the other matches at Levi’s on June 6, 13, and 18. We know what we have to do.
