bettermirror Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 This is the first match play I've been able to watch of this Gold Cup (just the last 25 minutes, sadly), and these Setanta guys are BRUTAL! WOW. "Which team brought on a defender?" I couldn't wait for them to say "Boom goes the dynamite!" Anyway, on to the important stuff. Played it just about right. Hart brought on Gerba for the win, became as disappointed with the marking on crosses and corner kicks, thus on comes Cann. Good decisions by Hart. 2-2 with the players we ran out sounds like a fantastic result. 7 pts, group champ. Have we won a group before??? Comments on the player selection for Ticos??? Game played at a canter, and that's alright. Can't wait for the QF. How nice would it be to eliminate CR from the GC in the group stage! Group of death most definitely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tintin Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 I can't blame Sutton on the second goal, but he is scary. What used to be our most consistent position has become quite dodgy in recent years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfitzp Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 good job good luck in the quarterfinals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footballfreak Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Group A Canada 7 4 2 +2 Costa Rica 4 4 4 0 El Salvador 3 2 2 0 Jamaica 0 0 2 -2 If El Salvador draws or beats Jamaica, they take A2 and avoid Mexico (Assuming A3 and C3 advance). Imagine the following quarter finals; Mexico-Costa Rica and El Salvador-Guadeloupe. Football, she is a funny game, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 peters speed on the flank adds a counter attacking dimension that canada has never had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guppy Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Most probable is we play Honduras who I despise ... get the stretchers dusted off, they'll be needed for the show. They should roll over Grenada,who has looked terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTL_4_LIFE Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 1st place!! wooo Schedule of how the next round looks like. http://www.goldcup.org/page/GoldCup/Schedule/0,,12802,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Those Setanta guys were the worst commentators I've ever heard. And I'm counting the CSL broadcasts on public access television announced by volunteers. Unreal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Boom goes the dynamite! LOL Very impressed by the team we had out there tonight. Good to see a little bit of depth. Sutton, once again was Sutton, but we won the group and collected some more Fifa Points against the 30th ranked team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john tv Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Guys stop that arm chair crap,these guys and in fact I guess second team were fabulous.Great mnental control,great ball skills and above average thinking and deciding these guys are very smart.So that magic Canadian brain power sealed it all. No one is as smart as our guys,yes a new angle to soccer,brainpower and skill.Sutton is great and an ever bigger inspiration,so again stop that arm chair crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teddym Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 We'd have won even with that lineup if we only had a keeper. Sutton is a bumbling clown and I don't want to see him in there again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 quote:Originally posted by Tintin Can someone please explain the logic of putting Cann in the game, especially now the way we're walking backwards into our own net? Because we were brutal on the Tico corners, lucky not to have been scored on and it was clear we needed to do something different and because as tie wins the group and avoids tiebreaker scenarios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackdude Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Canada finishes first in a Group of Death. That is a fantastic result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lomonty Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 A win would have been great but we win the group anyways. Looks like HArt pulled the reigns a bit in the 2nd half, Atiba played another great game protecting the back 4 and never making the wrong pass to spring the break out. There wasn't a player on that pitch that Peters couldn't take off the dribble on pace alone, which bodes well for us over the next 10 years. Mckenna was a colossus again!! Hasting should change his last name to Hesitant and retire, Fahq he plays a mens league type game no need for that with the crop lof youngster we have coming up. Tip off the hat for serving your country but we won't win many games with him back there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tintin Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 quote:Originally posted by Gordon Because we were brutal on the Tico corners, lucky not to have been scored on and it was clear we needed to do something different and because as tie wins the group and avoids tiebreaker scenarios. and we didn't have an orangutan on the bench? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ref Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 I think Jackson is good for complaining a lot and nothing else. Sutton needs to get a good night sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawk99 Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Is there a road trip being planned for the quarterfinal in Philly? I was at the Canada-Honduras qualifying match in Montreal last year - officially hate the Hondurans now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tintin Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 quote:Originally posted by hawk99 Is there a road trip being planned for the quarterfinal in Philly? I was at the Canada-Honduras qualifying match in Montreal last year - officially hate the Hondurans now. They make it pretty easy to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUJO Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 that was not a confidence-building match... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guppy Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 quote:Originally posted by Lurker Boom goes the dynamite! LOL Very impressed by the team we had out there tonight. Good to see a little bit of depth. Sutton, once again was Sutton, but we won the group and collected some more Fifa Points against the 30th ranked team. With a multiplier of 3, it's like a friendly win, maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyola Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Pretty good game for that newlook squad! I think we looked shacky at the end with CR having several good opportunities but for the rest I can't complain. I was impress by Peters in midfield! We missed Jakovic back there in term of providing good balls to the midfield. Sutton, he's scary, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guppy Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 quote:Originally posted by Rudi Those Setanta guys were the worst commentators I've ever heard. And I'm counting the CSL broadcasts on public access television announced by volunteers. Unreal! I dunno... They're not especially annoying. Fortunately they are just acting themselves and not pumping their teams. In MLS there's some horrific combinations of annoying personalities, cheerleading and incompetence that nobody can top, ever. If you ever heard that a guy who growls 'Yeh-eeeeesss' after his team scores. Nobody can top that stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizzly Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Good on Hart for playing a lot of the bench but I don't understand why he didn't start Wagenaar and this game shows exactly why he should have started him. Sutton looked shaky all night and gave up what essentially was an own goal but now we are in the knockout phase and it would be pretty hard to put Wagenaar in now with him having not played at all in the tournament so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolando Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Here goes with my two cents of armchair crap (without our beloved armchair crap is there even a purpose to the forum, john tv?). Similar to the game against ES, I think we easily could have lost this game . Would it have been a big loss? No, and it would have been undeserved - but let's not pretend that we are dominating these teams and really giving them no chance to get back in, especially not tonight. We really need that last bit "killer instinct" to finish off our opponents definitively. It's enough to win us games against often indifferent sides at the Gold Cup, but not enough for WCQ, I think. Lots of positives - McKenna was important again, two very nice goals, DeJong is a much better LB for us than a winger (would still love to see him at LDM next to Hutch), nice to see Nakajima play some although he suffered from the overall tiredness of the squad by the time he was in and warmed-up. Peters showed some nice wheels but still gets bumped off the ball too easily (not a huge amount of clear progress over the past couple years - similar to Simpson, as I've said before). Good to see Hainault get a game although he played like he was in a new position a few times (pity, I think he is 4th or 5th in the pecking order at CB, and probably 3rd at LB - we really needed to play a successor to Stalteri in this tournament, I think). Hart deserves full credit for using his subs and not being afraid to change his approach as he sees fit. Negatives - My god Sutton was dodgy - he may have sealed his fate with finally getting burned there. Don't think Hart will remove him now, mind you, but also don't think he will be back for Canada or a MLS job at tournament's end. Johnson was pretty ineffective today. A lot of errant balls played from the midfield - a few by wingers, but quite a few I thought, and a general lack of crispness, from Hutch (without JDG and DDR, it is easy to see that he is not a game-turning general but rather a solid supporting cast member). Jackson is either not ready yet or needs a second striker to play right next to him. Oh well, it was worth a try. Hopefully that was Hastings' last game - he wasn't diabolical but showed that after MOTM in his last start, he is just too uneven in his play from game to game, especially at his age, to be useful. Shame we weren't seeing Ledgerwood and Edgar start this game for Canada - it would have been the perfect opportunity. Nice result - really looking forward to seeing our (makeshift) first team in full force again - I think the only question for Hart is who he plays on the wings - probably Simpson and Johnson again, but maybe he liked what he saw from Peters. No card trouble and no serious injuries by the looks of it - so we have every chance of going pretty deep. Come on you Reds!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolando Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 quote:Originally posted by Grizzly Good on Hart for playing a lot of the bench but I don't understand why he didn't start Wagenaar and this game shows exactly why he should have started him. Sutton looked shaky all night and gave up what essentially was an own goal but now we are in the knockout phase and it would be pretty hard to put Wagenaar in now with him having not played at all in the tournament so far. Forrest said something about Sutton asking specifically for this start in order to shake the rest of the rust off - so much for that plan :< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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