[15thRegionSlamaBamma]

This was more so a victory for the US, coming back to tie the match up after conceiding a goal in the first 4 min of the match. I can tell you as someone who has played various levels of soccer when you conciede a goal that early its def. hard to come back from. The US looked very sluggish in the first half of the match but pulled things together in the second half. One thing that I noticed which is a concern was their inability to keep defensive shape and they were getting stretched all over the field and were tracking alot. It seemed in the first half that they were man marking and in the second half Bradley switched the system up to better suite for the way that team from across the pond was playing. Another note to take away from this game is that England SHOULD have been playing down a man early in the first half after the tackle that was placed on Howard. That should not be tolerated by any offical the player had no play on the ball and went in studs up which should be an immediate red card but the ref missed it and Howard played through it which showed great Heart, Athletism and Reselance