It was about as good a draw as we could have hoped for. We are clearly the second best team in the group, which wouldn't be true in many of the groups. Unfortunately, as mentioned above, we are inconsistent and injured.
Onyewu and Davies are huge losses, even though Onyewu was pretty inconsistent over his last few games, he was going to get some great experience in Italy this year, and could have anchored the back reasonably well. As for Conor Casey, all I can say is that he is better than Brian Ching.
I'm seriously debating going down to South Africa for the round robin games, and I will be p*ssed if I spend money to root for a team that uses Brian Ching regularly, like the U.S. has for the past couple of years, before Altidore and Davies started stepping up.
Maybe Freddy Adu will realize some of his potential.
Really, we have a chance at beating England, but we'll have to take our chances. John Terry is definitely slowing down and has shown he can be beaten by pace (which is where Davies would have come in). I guess Landon will have to cowboy up and not cry when he gets knocked around.
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