This is the 4th game in this mini tournament of six teams. The three firsts of the table qualifying automatically in South Africa and the fourth will play with fifth of South America’s group, in home and home games.
The hosts are a mixed team with veterans, like Centeno and young players like goal scorer Ruiz. At home they are very strong and they have big support from the fans. The team likes to hold the ball and play with small passes and lot of movements. In the box Andy Furtado and Bryan Ruiz are good finishers. Left defender Gonzallo Segarres plays in MLS with Chicago Fire and he knows all the Americans players and played against them for 5 years now in domestic league.
At home they have 2 wins in 2 games, 1-0 versus Salvador and 2-0 versus Honduras.
U.S.A. is on the first position after 2 wins and a draw. The wins were against Mexico (2-0) and T&T (3-0), but the most impressive result was against Salvador, when they trailed 2-0 and equalized in the last 13 minutes in a 2-2 draw. The team is very experienced while many players playing ball in Europe. The domestic league (MLS) growing and give more quality players. Josy Altidore, Maurice Edu and Freddy Adu, are all products of MLS in the last three years. Landon Donovan is the best player in front and all defending line is proven players in English premier league.
U.S. team will play again on Saturday versus Honduras and will travel to South Africa for Confederation Cup, which will start at 15th of June.
For Costa Rica-U.S.A. game, I see Americans to win or not to lose. The last year’s national team has developed as a great competitor and usually overcome opponents in their region.
Also I think is over 2,5 goals because both teams will play to score goals. USA scores at least one goal in the previews games and Costa Rica has to find ways to score too.
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