The kids are alright

All you Freddy Adu haters can shut the hell up now! Adu scored a hat-trick and the U.S. U-20s embarrassed Poland's U-20s 6-1 in the second match of the group phase in the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The dominating win puts the U.S. young ones on top of Group D with four points. And Adu is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in both the U-17 and U-20 World Cups.

Poland, who upset tournament-favorite Brazil in their first match, actually opened the scoring against the U.S. in the fifth minute. But four minutes later, Danny Szetela scored his second goal of the tournament to equalize and the avalanche began.

In minute 20, Adu made a Polish joke out of the defense beating a player one-v-one before spinning around another in the box and firing home the go-ahead goal. The U.S. continued to dominate, holding the possession and converting several chances. Adu's second goal came in first-half injury time, as he fired a screamer to the upper-90 just before the halftime whistle.

Szetela continued to have a great tournament, scoring his second of the night in the 51st minute, as left back Anthony Wallace played Szetela through and the Crew midfielder beat the Polish goalkeeper Bartosz Bialkowski.

Red Bull forward Jozy Altidore added to the pile on in the 70th minute, tapping in a Robbie Rogers cross in at the far post. With the score 5-1 and the match in hand, Adu directed a metaphorical middle finger at his critics by completing his hat-trick in the 85th minute, deftly touching a Rogers pass around the keeper and into the open net.

The U.S. will face four-time U-20 champions Brazil in the final match of the group phase on July 6, and needs a win or draw to finish first in the group. But no matter the finish, the U.S. U-20s are doing a great job helping us forget about our "senior" side's dreadful Copa America campaign.

Scoring Summary:
POL - Dawid Janczyk (Patrik Malecki) 5.
USA – Danny Szetela (Tony Beltran) 9.
USA – Freddy Adu (Sal Zizzo) 20.
USA – Freddy Adu (Sal Zizzo) 48+
USA - Danny Szetela (Anthony Wallace) 51.
USA - Josmer Altidore (Robbie Rogers) 70.
USA - Freddy Adu (Robbie Rogers) 85.

Lineups:
USA: 1-Chris Seitz; 5-Nathan Sturgis, 14-Athony Wallace (4-Amaechi Igwe, 63), 16-Julian Valentin (13-Ofori Sarkodie, 33), 19-Tony Beltran; 6-Michael Bradley, 7-Danny Szetela, 11-Freddy Adu (c); 8-Robbie Rogers, 12-Josmer Altidore (10-Dax McCarty, 79), 15-Tony Beltran

POL: 1-Bartosz Bialkowski; 2-Ben Starosta, 3-Jaroslaw Fojut, 5-Kryzstof Strugarek, 6-Adam Danch, 8-Artur Marciniak (c) (19-Pawel Adamiec, 67), 9-Patryk Malecki, 11-Dawid Janczyk, 16-Grzegorz Krychowiak (7-Adrian Marek, 55), 18-Mariusz Sacha (14-Jakub Szalek, 46), 20-Tomasz Cywka

Misconduct Summary:
POL – Grzegorz Krychowiak (caution) 32.
POL – Jaroslaw Fojut (caution) 76.

All the goals from USA vs. Poland