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Halftime Report: One-Manner Visitors as U.S. Leads 2-0
The USA dominated the primary half in opposition to Mexico, taking a 2-0 lead and searching constantly harmful in opposition to a toothless, flaccid Mexican staff.
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Noah Davis
Posted
April 03, 2014
12:15 AM
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GLENDALE, Ariz.—Mexico confirmed up greater than half-hour late to its worldwide pleasant with the US males’s nationwide staff, the bus caught in site visitors on the way in which to the College of Phoenix Stadium.
After the primary half, Miguel Herrera’s aspect most likely wished it hadn’t come in any respect.
It was a tentative opening quarter hour from either side earlier than Michael Bradley put the US up 1-0 off a Graham Zusi nook kick. The midfielder beat marker Jesus Eduardo Zavala to the curling effort and hit a laser previous goalkeeper Moises Munoz. The tally was his fourth in opposition to Mexico, outstanding particularly contemplating he has no multiple aim in opposition to another nation.
After the aim, the all-MLS lineup continued to have nearly all of possession, with Bradley main the cost. The second aim got here by him as properly. Tony Beltran, getting the beginning at proper again, put in a dainty cross that Bradley flicked additional throughout the field after an extended, sensible run. Chris Wondolowski completed off the motion, sliding into the six-yard field and poking it into the online for his third aim in two matches
The UoP stadium grew eerily quiet, the bulk Mexico supporters going silent as dos a cero chants rang out from the American Outlaws part simply behind the American aim. No less than for a half, all the pieces went proper.
