Some Soccer News for Aug 10, 2016
du Nord, August 10, 2016
It's Day 223 of 2016. US Open Cup Semifinals: New England breezed into the final. Impressive. The winner of LA v Dallas will host the championship game. Chicago lost in the semifinals for the 4th consecutive year. And the Fire looked like a team that must have gotten to the semifinal via multiple rounds of forfeits. I have no idea how that team beat anyone. They were miserable. David Accam of Chicago got a late red card for a pushing and shouting incident with Kelyn Rowe after a rough Accam tackle. -Tue Aug 9 New England Revolution 3-1 Chicago Fire - NER goals by Kei Kamara(PK), Je-Vaughn Watson + Teal Bunbury. CF goal by David Accam. -Wed Aug 10 LA Galaxy v Dallas - 9pm CT on ESPN2 dN USWNT Olympic Tournament Overconfident? Colombia pulled some great reverse psychology on the USA and it worked. For 2 days their coached talk about how exhausted and injured his team was, and how they couldn't compete with the USA even if they were 100%. The USA bought it, putting out a weakened lineup and losing concentration