Second half USA played NO FOOTBALL whatsoever. They parked all of City Gate and Morvant Taxi Stand in fron the goal.
When Chelsea did that against Barca, it was genius though....
What ever you say. Check the possession stats from that game.
I never knew football was won and lost with possession stats.
Games were determined by goals last I checked.
2 - nil is no fluke. That is a deserved win
Yuh wasting your time Marcos. The "goalposts" for what is good football will always change. The word during the Barca-Chelsea games was that despite Barcelona having much more possession, Chelsea had more
chances. Never mind they miss the chances (i.e. not that great football after all).
Here the US create chances too and (shocker) actually score goals but now possession is how you evaluate a team's performance. That is the kind of blinkered logic yuh does get from these analysts.
I wouldn't even concede that the possession stats for Chelsea were so great. I remember the possesion stats for the first Barcelona game was almost 70% in Barcelona's favour. Once yuh get into to them regions boasting about possession stats is an exercise in semantics. Whether one had 30% and the next one 25% both of them get outplayed.
Edited to add:I just waste 5 minutes of my time looking at Elan's possession stats:Barcelona - Chelsea 1st Leg (from Soccernet)
Time of Possession 71% 30%
Chelsea - Barcelona 2nd Leg (from Soccernet)
Time of Possession 29% 71%
Spain - USA (from FIFA)
56% Possession (%) 44%
Yuh right Elan the possession stats say that US spend more time defending against Spain than Chelsea against Barcelona.