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Friendly vs. Norway.

Just a reminder/heads-up, as I didn't hear about this. :)

son of a bitch!

thanks RPI

Does anyone have the starting lineup?

Goal! 1-0 USA! That was an excellent, excellent ball from Dempsey.

Who is that play by play guy?

sweet goal by Twellman in the 5th minute off the assist from his Revvie teammate Dempsey.

1-0 USA

Did they try and credit that cross to Hejduk initially?

Hahahahaha....

Lineup (off the top of my head):

---------Hartman---------

-Hejduk--Conrad--Pope--Dunivant-

-Dempsey--Donovan--Zavagnin--Noonan-

----Twellman--Wolff-------


And did I hear them say Freddy is on the bench????????

He already got capped against Canada. Rumor mill has him moving to Man U in the summer.

twellman is playing like a man possessed. he wants germany!

Is that Dempsey or Kaka out there?

Jeez....

wow. great save by hartman there off the volley

dola

and I LOVE this game because of my FM playing of Rosenborg...I know a ton of these Norwegian guys...can't believe that Peter Vagan Moen took that last shot...I bought him once upon a time

double dola

damm erland hansveit!!! i own him...he shouldn't be fouling dempsey!

triple dola

TWELLMANNNNNNN on the header!!! 2-0 USA!!!

Who hit that free kick (to set up Twellman)?

That is one of the cool things from games like FM. I have surprissed my friends a few times watching games in TV versus unknown teams, when i said "Hey that winger is so fast and has good dribling, you will see" and after some time they saw it was true and looked at me like a master of football :D

Dunivant, I think.

Dempsey is freakin brilliant today.

yeah. it's sweet. must be even more fun for you europeans who actually have futbol on tv to watch as opposed to us who only get national team games (mostly...not counting the MLS games, but there aren't that many unknowns there, not as many leagues)

Yeah, we watch here the Spanish, Italian and UK leagues, plus some Argentinian league games and resumes of all the european leagues. But on the other hand we can't watch USA college sports, i need to watch them online in my pc.

Noonan is normally a right winger, correct?

Rocket shot by Pele just off the cross bar.

Dempsey has impressed me so far...that was a great shot

so is my hatred of frankie hejduk completely irrational?

Not sure, but he is left-footed.

twellman missed the ball on that bicycle kick lol...now they are just playing around

Frankie gets a bad rep. However, he will get a roster spot and probably deserves one.

This play by play guy has a good voice but he is getting mixed up some. Didn't he use to do hockey?

Nope, completely rational, as Frankie Hedjuk deserves to be shot out of a large cannon. :D

Jason Wolff, the BS crowd will love that one.

i think i just dislike hejduk's "surfer" sort of appearance/way he carries himself. plus he ALWAYS seems to be slide-tackling and once upon a time i had a coach tell me "if you're slide-tackling it's because you were out of position"

(which is a bit of a generality, but it's an attitude that's stuck with me

that's a horrible no-call!

Donovan is playing more of a holding role today. I am not sure if I have seen him in that role with the NT before.

but hey...as long as Dempsey is playing so well, it shows a lot of self-confidence and sacrifice and maturity by Donovan to adapt like that

Adu is not on the bench.

goal for eddie pope. yay eddie pope

I hope Hartman gets the third keeper spot

Not to sound like a jerk, but you guys do realize it's the Norway B-squad? For example, of the players active for Norway today, only one played in any of their last five WC'06 qualification matches.

Edit: I dare to calim that all these players are from the national league, which should be shutdown right now due to the winter break.

Well I don't think anyone is getting overly excited about this one. Plus, we're playing with a backup keeper.

WTF? Nobody is saying this means USA should be ranked #1.

We're saying Twellman, a guy who has never given good NT performances, is playing well verse a group of decent, tall defenders.

Do YOU realize this is the U.S.A.'s B+ squad, with NONE of their European players?

:rolleyes:

what RPI said

ditto.

My mistake. I thought Frankie Hejduk, Eddie Pope and Landon Donovan were first team players. Of course I know that the Europe based players are not playing, guys like O'Brien and Beasley played today. Besides, it wasn't ment as a stab at anything.

:rolleyes:

Pope and Hejduk are fighting for a spot in Germany, on the 23-man roster. We are in BIG trouble if they see the field.

Donovan is of course the man.

The only other people who played today who MIGHT see the field in Germany are Wolff, Dempsey, and Zavagnin.

of those three...donovan is the only one who i guarentee you will see on the field in germany for every match (barring injury). the other two are by no means guarenteed.

And Twellman ;)

There was only one person on the field today with a WC spot locked up. That is Donovan. That was no where near our first squad and we just totally dominated them. It could have easily been 7 or 8 goals.

By the way, I think the Norway keeper has some American blood in him.

wow. RPI beat me to it. i would submit though that if Zavagnin or Wolff see the field in Germany we are in trouble. Twellman...ehh...well he might be okay to see. I need to see more consistency from him

Yeah, their teams played, but of course they didn't, still being injured and all...

Humiliate me. Right here, in this thread. I deserve it.

I think you'd have a lot easier go of it if you gave up your little crusade for Europe and admitted that the U.S.A. outclass a lot of teams that you don't want to admit.

Sorry, MIJB, I'm taking care of Blade over in the WW thread.. can I take a raincheck and all that? :D

seriously, it was the USA B+ Squad 5, Norway B+ Squad 0.