{"id":2745,"date":"2010-06-05T08:09:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T13:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2010-06-05T08:09:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T13:09:19","slug":"u-s-%e2%80%93-australia-early-thoughts-first-20-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/05\/u-s-%e2%80%93-australia-early-thoughts-first-20-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. \u2013 Australia Early Thoughts (First 20 minutes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was nice to see Buddle put the U.S. up 1-nil in the first three minutes, but how on earth does Findley miss a wide open net?\u00a0 Chances to score international goals, even Friendly tune-up matches before next weekend\u2019s World Cup opener against England are few and far between.<\/p>\n<p>Of course Team U.S.A. needs to come out of this one with a victory to give the team confidence and momentum going into England, but the defense has to come together.\u00a0 What a shame that Australia was allowed to easily take things to 1-1 at the 18 minute mark with a nice corner that should be been stopped.\u00a0 Without some significant improvement on defense, we are not going to make it out of group play.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was nice to see Buddle put the U.S. up 1-nil in the first three minutes, but how on earth does Findley miss a wide open net?\u00a0 Chances to score international goals, even Friendly tune-up matches before next weekend\u2019s World Cup opener against England are few and far between. Of course Team U.S.A. needs to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/05\/u-s-%e2%80%93-australia-early-thoughts-first-20-minutes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. \u2013 Australia Early Thoughts (First 20 minutes)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-u-s-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}