Preach!

I'm not going to comment on the U.S. game itself here, I'll leave that up to Bishop Mac, our Senior U.S. National Team Correspondent. But I do have to give some props to ESPN's studio crew of Eric Wynalda, Alexie Lalas and Julie Foudy. Often, former players are hesitant to criticize current players, but these three pulled no punches following the game. They called out the team as a whole for its lack of fire and urgency, and individual players (Onyewu, Beasley, Donovan and Reyna, in particular) for their mistakes and lack of Honor.

The consensus was that U.S. team didn't show up, played backwards all day long and simply didn't have the heart to seize the opportunity that this game presented.