ESPN FC’s Shaka Hislop analyses Jamaica’s stunning 2-1 win over the United States to reach their first Gold Cup final.
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The U.S. faces Jamaica in a Gold Cup semifinal in Atlanta.
Team USA is ranked 34th in the world, while Jamaica sits in the 76th position.
Instead of heading on to a berth in Sunday’s title game at Philadelphia, the American will play for third place.
“Obviously the team is disappointed”.
Lyndon B. Johnson announced he wouldn’t seek re-election the last time the U.S. lost to a Caribbean team at home. “We wanted to play in the big final”.
Darren Mattocks, who plays for Vancouver in Major League Soccer, put the Reggae Boyz ahead with a 31st-minute header directly off a throw-in.
“To see it going in was sensational”, Barnes said of his goal. “Everyone knows how we are as a country”.
Well, before more than 70,000 in the sold-out Georgia Dome, the Americans were tripped up by an island nation of some 2.9 million – roughly half the population of metro Atlanta.
Certainly, the USMNT’s loss Wednesday, just its second to Jamaica in 23 matches, caused much debate online about the coach’s performance.
“We lost this game on two set pieces that we conceded”, Klinsmann said. “Bob Marley comes after the match”.
Just as importantly, the USA, the 2015 Gold Cup champions, will have to play this year’s champion in a special playoff to determine which team will represent the region in the 2017 Federation Internationale de Football Association Confederations Cup in Russia.
Jurgen Klismann vowed the United States men’s national soccer team would build its way through the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup and peak at the right time.
Michael Bradley, Clint Dempsey and the U.S. were coming off of a 6-0 victory over Cuba this past weekend. Kemar Lawrence got everything on a long throw-in, delivering it perfectly into the box.
When the final whistle blew, the Jamaican players and staff celebrated as if they had won the whole tournament.
“Any time a World Cup finishes there’s always going to be a bit of turnover”, Guzan said. The unforced error gave Jamaica a free kick from 25 yards out. “You have no divine right to be in the final”. “If the linesman is three yards behind me, I think that’s an impressive call from his point of view”. “But I’m not a referee”.
Second half substitutes Mix Diskerud for Kyle Beckerman in the 68th minute, Alan Gordon for Aron Johannsson in the 73rd minute and DeAndre Yedlin for Alejandro Bedoya in the 78th minute were brought to add offensive flair to the attack but failed to have any meaningful impact. Then Bradley fired in from long range and Thompson somehow diverted the ball onto the post via his unknowing chest.
Darren Mattocks missed his big chance against Uruguay at the Copa America but more than made up for it Wednesday. Maybe they should let the shock wear off before they get to work on that, though. We had enough chances to put two, three, five in their net.
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The U.S. had work to do considering Jamaica had allowed two goals in a game just once in the tournament, and those came in its opening game against Costa Rica.
