Heyitsgary

We did win, under the rules of the event, we finished 2nd in our group and moved on.

arsenal

Lol are you new to soccer?

skunkworks

Yep , I ’m somewhat new to Soccer. Generally, I’m not much of a spectator sport type of individual – I’ve always been more of a participant, but I’ve taken a recent spectator’s liking to Soccer (football). Why did you ask? Are my opinions foolhardy?

I don’t know…really.

gary

kgf3076

No such thing. How do you expect to learn without making a mistake now and then. After a while, your appreciation for all the amazing things that are going on all over the pitch will increase a hundredfold. Keep asking questions and ignore people who give you a hard time. It's great to see the interest in futbol increasing in the US.

dlq04

We just sat down to watch the tape - instead of the US, I taped the Portugal game. Oh well, hope we all do better next week - me and the team!

arsenal

Well it's not by default. The goal difference is a completely valid and fair way of determining if one team is stronger than another over the course of a season / league when they are tied on points. It is a way of playing strategically. For example, if you go out to win and score lots of goals, you have more chance of progressing, so the goal difference reflects this. It comes into play not from just one game, but from all of them. We went through because we were stronger in other games, which is a positive. (Well, US is my country of citizenship now so I can say we)

Legal Bill

Not foolhardy at all. They were outplayed to such a level that they looked like they didn't belong on the field with Germany. This is the second game where they were outplayed. They were lucky to win the first one against a team that is now eliminated.

arsenal

They weren't out played too much at all. They went out for a draw which was obvious and it's basically what they achieved. No injuries and no suspensions, sit back and relax, don't concede too much. If we had to win it would have been different.

dlq04

Not foolhardy at all. They were outplayed to such a level that they looked like they didn't belong on the field with Germany. This is the second game where they were outplayed. They were lucky to win the first one against a team that is now eliminated.
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So you did watch more than 4 minutes.... it had to be easy. I didn't see any of it but it had to be better than watching baseball. The world's most boring sport. Although I did enjoy tonight's game a little (10 year old grandson's team won tonight and goes on to play for the championship next Tuesday). Still, give me hockey!!!

Fokker

Must have been watching a different game than I was. Germany wasn't playing at a level where I would say they were outplaying the US. Both sides were trading back and forth for a good portion of the match and the US came close to tying the game up at the end. The US team wasn't supposed to escape the "Group of Death", but we did and I think our next challenge will be Argentina, as I see our team coming out on top of Belgium.