World Cup Roundup Day 13: American success

The US pulled off a stunning last minute game winning goal from Landon Donovan. The US should have won this game earlier if it weren't for the fact that another US goal was disallowed for a questionable offside call. In all the group of surprise did provide some surprises and entertaining soccer in the final matches of group play. The end result is that the US won the group and thus avoid facing Germany in the round of sixteen. I have seen in the last three halves a team that is hungry and willing to take their game to the opponent. It should be noted that we played the weaker two of our first round opponents in those games. The US is going to face an uphill battle as we will likely face the African continents last hope in Ghana. The last US-Ghana match up was four years ago in Germany. I must point out that one of the finalists for the World Cup in 2006 started group play with two ties and victory only to gel and make a tremendous run through the rest of the World Cup tournament. Today we saw the hopes of Slovenia, Algeria, Australia, and Serbia end on the soccer pitches of South Africa. Of particular note is that major European powers are due to meet up in the first round of the knockout stages between England and Germany.