Houston Dynamo striker Giles Barnes was the hero for Jamaica – beaten semi-finalists in 1993 and 1998 – with his sixth-minute goal the difference at M&T Bank Stadium. The game will be shown on Fox Sports 2.
Wednesday’s winners play Saturday at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field.
When: Wednesday, July 22 at 6 p.m. And what the usa is doing is playing through forward Clint Dempsey, who leads the tournament with six goals in four games. After their victory over Honduras who qualified for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, they could be prime and ready to upset Jamaica. So they had a full throw. The victor of this matchup between the USA and Cuba will face the victor of Saturday’s second quarterfinal between Haiti and Jamaica. Brooks was suspended for the quarterfinals against Cuba, but Klinsmann has signaled, dating back to the June friendlies against the Netherlands and Germany, that he believes in his young center backs, Ventura Alvarado and Brooks, both only 22.
“At this time, I do not want to say anything further out of respect for my team-mates and the JFF. Hopefully we can continue our run because we want to go into the final”.
(MB stands for Michael Bradley).
“It’s an organized team, it’s a very good team”, Bradley told Sportingnews.com. “They have a unique blend of organisation and discipline and also athleticism”. They’ve always had good attacking players, even 10-15 years ago. They understand each other. They’ve often played an unbalanced midfield, with one winger and one shuttling midfielder in an attempt to balance their need for numbers in midfield with width.
He has a contract through the 2018 World Cup, and U.S. Soccer has staked far too much of its reputation on his success not to give him every opportunity to realize their mutual ambitions. Elsewhere Timmy Chandler may keep his place in the lineup, with veteran DaMarcus Beasley, brought out of global retirement after the group stage to add experience to the backline, only having just returned to training following a calf injury.
“We know the game’s going to be more hard [than the Cuba match]”, Dempsey said. “That’s where they really grow, and we see a lot of talent in our back line”. “It’s not easy. All their players play at a high level”, Schafer said.
It is not unusual for the Cuban team to lose players during the tournament.
“As I have said before, we were massive underdogs in this group and to come out on top with seven points is no mean feat”, McCleary said. “If he’s 100 per cent, then there’s no doubt he will go in”.
The first knockout stage match between two Caribbean rivals in the biennial North American football championship’s history followed a 6-0 United States rout of Cuba in the day’s other quarter-final.
Schäfer, a German who has enjoyed a nomadic career that has also taken in stints in charge of Cameroon and Thailand, has already succeeded in leading Jamaica to its first Gold Cup semifinal since 1998.
