{"id":4160,"date":"2015-07-09T21:31:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T01:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2015-07-09T21:31:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T01:31:58","slug":"gold-cup-will-the-usmnt-sort-out-defensive-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2015\/07\/09\/gold-cup-will-the-usmnt-sort-out-defensive-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Cup &#8211; Will the USMNT Sort Out Defensive Woes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, how many times have I written about Team U.S.A. being let dow by an awful defense?  I\u2019m not going to go there yet, but I will let Matthew Doyle take us to that special place in his latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/goldcup\/2015\/news\/article\/2015\/07\/08\/armchair-analyst-usmnt-take-punch-and-all-3-points-gold-cup-opener-vs-hondur\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/goldcup\/2015\/news\/article\/2015\/07\/08\/armchair-analyst-usmnt-take-punch-and-all-3-points-gold-cup-opener-vs-hondur', 'Armchair  Analyst');\" target=\"_blank\">Armchair  Analyst<\/a> article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But we won because Michael Bradley serves in sick set pieces and because Clint Dempsey is an American badass. It\u2019s been a very good combination over the years, and if you\u2019re struggling to take something overly positive away from the game\u2026 well, you\u2019re not alone. Just don\u2019t take those two guys for granted \u2013 as long as they\u2019re around, the US have a chance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>2-1 over Honduras, taking the three points home last Tuesday night.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/mens-national-team\/tournaments\/2015-concacaf-gold-cup#tab-2\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/mens-national-team\/tournaments\/2015-concacaf-gold-cup#tab-2', 'Haiti is next,');\" target=\"_blank\">Haiti is next,<\/a> tomorrow night.  We should secure the group, but the boys better be ready and not allow Haiti to think the have a chance.<\/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>Over the years, how many times have I written about Team U.S.A. being let dow by an awful defense? I\u2019m not going to go there yet, but I will let Matthew Doyle take us to that special place in his latest Armchair Analyst article: But we won because Michael Bradley serves in sick set pieces &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2015\/07\/09\/gold-cup-will-the-usmnt-sort-out-defensive-woes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gold Cup &#8211; Will the USMNT Sort Out Defensive Woes?<\/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":[75],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-u-s-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160","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=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}