That Ghana game wasn't indicative of how the US likes to play or their strengths. They couldn't match ghana's athleticism on top of their speed. How physically imposing is portugal? I know they have speed but that's not enough to mimic ghana's game plan. Michael Bradley played an atrocious game and had zero first touch ability for some reason. The US likes to run their offense through Bradley and I think that's when theyre at their best. Bradley had been playing really well up until last night. I don't foresee him squandering so much possession and making so many unforced errors again. So I don't think portugal's matchup advantages are as big as you think. And Portugal may be without 2 of their best defenders.

Jozy had a scoring drought for 6 months. But he scored as many goals against Nigeria 2 weeks ago as johansson has scored in total in his ten or so caps. Every striker has droughts. To focus on the drought is just an arbitrary assessment of a player. And against a team like Ghana you'd be crazy to want johansson on the field more than Jozy. Yeah he should have buried that shot. So what? Everyone does that. Everyone misses those shots some times. And that wasn't as simple a shot as Torres' flub. He had a split second to place the ball and chose wrong. Plus it's a lot easier for us to place a shot when we're watching from an aerial view. I don't get why a striker can get so much crap for that when they have a totally different view of the field in general and so sometimes deserve the benefit of the doubt. Torres just fucked up though. Calling jozy a clown for that is nonsensical, especially since his wonderful sub did less in 80 minutes than Jozy did in 20. And Ghana had 4 or 5 such chances they fucked up before finally scoring. Germany had at least 3. Bunch of clowns I guess?

a full, 38 round season is a pretty good sample size to get a grasp of someone's ability to score at a competitive level...jozy has been as productive as donovan during his sabatical. problem is, jozy misses those shots most of the time, at least lately, and by lately i mean the past year.

Wanta, Mexico are displaying a brilliant "bus parking" if you're watching this game.

Well I don't give a damn about Sunderland. I care about the USA team in the World Cup. And Jozy broke his international scoring drought 2 weeks ago and looked more dangerous against Ghana in 20 minutes than johansson did in 80. Does he really always miss those shots? Proof? And for the USA not Sunderland. And yes it is arbitrary to look at a scoring drought for a club and extrapolate that to international play and to assess the player in general based on it. He's not a world class forward or anything but he's been the usa's most consistently threatening forward and has goals to show for it. Hell, messi has had a year or two when he only scored 1 or 2 goals for Argentina. And I bet you Argentina fans don't give a damn how he does for barca if he's not producing for their own country.