They executed their game plan, and we didn't. Our finishing was poor, theirs excellent. Their defense was good enough, ours was definitely not. On both goals, Tim Ream and Geoff Cameron were ridiculously far apart and were marking no one. CR started by bullying our midfield and should have picked up an early penalty, but the referee took a very lenient view of matters. Navas made some nice saves, Howard looked bad on their first goal. Arena was riding his luck a little, but he will be furious with the dreadful giveaways and slack defending.
Now it's a case of having to win away in Honduras. That's not going to be as easy as winning at home was. It's not panic time yet; we could (and probably should) get nine points from the last three games, and that would be good for an automatic berth. But this was a fall to earth for Arena and the US team. They looked rather ordinary tonight.
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