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CANADA v USA 3rd June, 2012 (R) and Online Stream


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Nice to see some guys coming on to get a cap. Honestly, I don't know why people **** on De Guzman so much, to ME at least, this is how he plays for toronto week in, week out, I see no difference. Do the people that **** on him all the time even actually WATCH the full TFC games?

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Do people see the way Dero sucks the American defenders inside before playing the outside through ball to Pedro?

It's small things like that which seperate him from other North American players.

Yup easily the player with the best technique on the pitch. He'd start for the Americans.

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Fair result with an exciting end where both sides could have won it. I thought the first half was really poor but the second half was a big impovement. DeRo was disappointing and seemed not really focussed apart from a couple of flashes. Ante Jazic was my MotM...looked really comfortable against Donovan and got forward a lot more in the second half.

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Much more encouraged by the 0-0 draw than I would have been with 2-2 or 3-3.

I'd have been more much more encouraged with 2-2 or 3-3. Scoring against a side like the US would have given them some confidence going in to Cuba, while conceding against the US wouldn't be embarrassing.

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The team played to the game plan and got a decent result. A goal would have been brilliant, mind you. Still, there were a lot of positives out there, including JDG, Jazic, Occean, the rest of the back four, Ricketts and Ledgerwood. Dero had some nice flashes but let us down a few times too many with errant passes. He has a big heart and is creative as hell out there, but sometimes I just wish he'd do a little bit less and made that killer pass. Sometimes he does, but not frequently enough. With that said, this was a strong cohesive team performance--a la the U23s v. USA--and I think Hart may have learned a thing or two from the Olympic qualifying foray. We still need to put the ball in the back of the net...

Did we do enough to persuade Hoillet tonight? Or is he already gone?

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I'd have been more much more encouraged with 2-2 or 3-3. Scoring against a side like the US would have given them some confidence going in to Cuba, while conceding against the US wouldn't be embarrassing.
Yeah, but the entire game plan was to play cohesive team defense, which they did very well and almost came away with the win. hard to knock that against a powerful US side.
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Great game tonight, i'm not sure why people think the first half was poor. Maybe the first 10 minutes but what do you expect from a team that hasn't played a high level game together in awhile.

I'll be the first to admit I didn't think Ledgerwood starting was a good choice, but him Jazic and Edgar all looked really good today and Occean up front is just what we needed. I have a positive feeling that we will break through and score some goals in qualifying.

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I imagine some will take shots, but I think that is a decent turn out, and it did not seem like an away game either. I am gonna give out Kudos.

Agreed. And well done to the south end, which was in full voice. Several chants were clearly audible on TV, in particular "We're red / We're white / We're wearing blue tonight!"

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Nice to see some guys coming on to get a cap. Honestly, I don't know why people **** on De Guzman so much, to ME at least, this is how he plays for toronto week in, week out, I see no difference. Do the people that **** on him all the time even actually WATCH the full TFC games?

In a lot of cases if you listen around the stadium people complain that JDG doesn't score enough.

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In a lot of cases if you listen around the stadium people complain that JDG doesn't score enough.

Well he didn't when he was getting player of the year honors as well, particularly in La Liga. It's just a lack of understanding of what a holding mid is meant to do, and he does it exceptionally well usually, if sometimes a touch clumsy.

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