“But that’s fine. We will try everything to hit the giant when it counts the most”.
Mexico had dominated play but was unable to score until the final moments. Both games will be played in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, with the U.S.-Jamaica game televised on FoxSports1, UniMas and Univision Deportes at 3 p.m. PDT, and Mexico-Panama on FoxSports2 and the two Spanish-language stations at 6 p.m.
And yet, it doesn’t feel like U.S. Soccer will part ways with Klinsmann at this time.
“All the times we’ve met we’ve always had a good time with each other“.
“We are people of football and I still can’t believe this happened and I wonder if this really happened”.
Analysis: Playing at home with a pro-US crowd in Atlanta, the Americans have too much in their favor to lose.
“Mexico is the team that fills the stadiums and we are not being treated well”, Herrera said.
Mattocks, who was suspended for his team’s quarter-final win over Haiti, struck in the 31st minute with a header before Barnes scored from a free-kick five minutes later.
Panama’s bench reportedly applauded sarcastically for Geiger, knowing its fate had been sealed on another night when nobody will be talking about the play on the field. It lost to the U.S.in the 2013 final after beating Mexico in the semifinals. This, however, is a different Jamaican team.
The U.S. has been led by Clint Dempsey, the Seattle Sounders star who had a hat trick in the win over Cuba.
Klinsmann wants to get some younger players into the mix, a group that includes 20-year-old Jordan Morris and 19-year-old Rubio Rubin and Emerson Hyndman.
Mexico is not at full strength. On Tuesday, Herrera told reporters that he expected LA Galaxy Designated Player Giovani dos Santos to be available, provided the winger didn’t have any issues during Tuesday’s training session.
“He’s doing well”, Herrera said. The press, more than us, are aware that things did not function well, in the legal way.
Costa Rica’s goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado (23) reacts as he watches the ball shot by Mexico’s Andres Guardado (18) go in for the game winning goal during the overtime period of a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match Sunday, July 19, 2015, at MetLife stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
Panama stuck to a gameplan, while Mexico fumbled around for ideas. I am not creating any speculation; I am hurt and I think the players are hurt.
“During the flight, the players were squeezed in and that can’t be”.
“It’s hard”, he said of the tournament grind.
“I don’t know where it comes from”.
A fter Mexico ousted Costa Rica in the quarterfinals on the most controversial of penalty calls at the tail end of extra time, it was given another lift, this time from American referee Mark Geiger.
Mexican captain Andres Guardado scored the lone goal from the spot in the 124th minute to lift Mexico over Costa Rica 1-0 while Panama goalkeeper Jaime Penedo denied Lester Peltier in the ninth round of penalty kicks as the Canaleros advanced 6-5 over Trinidad and Tobago after a 1-1 draw.
