{"id":803,"date":"2007-02-08T08:22:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T12:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/08\/us-hands-it-to-mexico\/"},"modified":"2007-02-08T08:23:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T12:23:27","slug":"us-hands-it-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/08\/us-hands-it-to-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA hands it to Mexico (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Mexico\/US game last night, some interesting numbers were discussed.  Since 2000, the US is 7-0-1 against Mexico for games played in the US.  This includes a 13-0 goal differential, and accounts for 732 scoreless minutes for the boys from Mexico.  Nice.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like the next National team outing is in Miami, FL against Ecuador, which means another overly strong anti-American crowd .<\/p>\n<p>I thought Conrad played a grate game (kind of a duh statement), and Howard looked strong in goal once he settled down after some opening minute jitters.  I know Donovan had a beautiful goal and assist, but I just did not think he played an even performance.  For much of the game, he was not a factor.<\/p>\n<p>Mastroeni played a smart, patient game.  Several times he stopped runs with well positioned play, and on multiple occasions he slowed down the US attack to help try to sustain a build-up.  This was important because for much of the match, I think the boys in white thought they were playing FIFA \u2013 just kick and run and hope for the best.<\/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>After the Mexico\/US game last night, some interesting numbers were discussed. Since 2000, the US is 7-0-1 against Mexico for games played in the US. This includes a 13-0 goal differential, and accounts for 732 scoreless minutes for the boys from Mexico. Nice. Looks like the next National team outing is in Miami, FL against &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/08\/us-hands-it-to-mexico\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Team USA hands it to Mexico (Again)<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","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=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}