Denmark went tall to start the game, leaving speedy but small striker Jesper Bech on the bench and instead starting Dennis Sorensen
4th minute, shot in the box by
5th minute FK outside the box for Donovan.
Jaqua skied for header, knocking into Jesper Christiansen, who got the worst of it, but came back up.
Johnson bad pass, then cleared out ball for header.
US
Donovan stole ball, sent pass to EJ, who set it back for Rolfe, who, though far out, took a crack at it. The low ,hard shot was palmed just wide by Christiansen for a corner. Donovan took the corner, Chris Albright headed it on goal – into Christiansen’s waiting have CK.
Chris Albright booked for a yellow on Simon Busk Poulsen.
Later, Poulsen makes
Rolfe starts play where
Donovan takes, makes.
Shirt off, that’s a yellow.
Beckerman in. Califf in.
Danish bragging rights belong to the
Full-time.
Andrea,
ReplyDeleteGreat article on Mapp on Soccernet today. I agree completely with you that American soccer discourages the type of creative play Mapp demonstrated. Hopefully he'll keep it up in the Mexico game.
Glad you liked the article! I hope Mapp gets the chance - he just offers something on the field that most of the others on the US team don't.
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