Sweden blank Yanks, 1-0

USA 0, SWEDEN 1 (final)

Scoring Summary:
56 - Kalistrom (Bakircioglu)

Match commentary
1-15 min.
--so far, neither team seems to have found their footing in this one; sloppy play in the first 15 minutes; Bradley giveaway nearly leads to a goal; Beasley misses a sitter; Bornstein struggling early

16-30
--Sloppy play continues; fouls piling up (US 6, Swe 4); Beasley creates two scoring opps: setting up Dempsey, then Bradley, but to no avail

31-45
--Great Save Howard! (32) on Ibrahimovic 1v1 shot; first yellow to Swedes' Kallstrom; US finally maintaining some possession; pace slowed; Bocanegra clearing header prevents clear chance; 2nd yellow to Swe for dissent (Elmander); Yellow to Bocanegra for hand ball

46-60
--Convey in for Mastroeni; Swedes sub two players; another nice diving save by Howard off Andersson shot (50); Dempsey weak shot after nice Donovan dummy (51); GOAL - Sweden: Kalistrom near post strike beats Howard (56), Cherundolo, Bradley abused on Swede's goal, 'Dolo pushed off the ball

61-75
--Donovan with nice move centrally, but Bornstein cross kills play (63); US Subs: Spector for Bornstein and Hill for Donovan; Swedes sub Inrahimovic; Feilhaber gets shot on goal (70); Howard another save (72); US looks dreadful

75-90
-- US Subs: DeMerit on for Bocanegra, Zizzo on for Beasley (76); Former TYH Top 25 (Zizzo) gets first cap!; US Sub Davis on for Dempsey (86);

Wrap-up
A poor performance by the U.S., bringing their away record to 0-3 under Bradley. His experiment using three defensive midfielders (Bradley, Mastroeni and Feilhaber) did not work and the under-sized U.S. were pushed around. Still, players like Sal Zizzo, Kamani Hill and Charlie Davies got a bit of experience and the entrance of these young hungry players saw the U.S. attack 50-50 balls much more aggressively in the final 10 minutes. Overall, questions abound for the U.S. at almost every position, except goalkeeper.

USA Line-up

GOALKEEPER

Howard

DEFENDERS

Cherundolo, Onyewu, Bocanegra (DeMerit, 76), Bornstein (Spector, 64)

MIDFIELDERS

Feilhaber, Bradley, Mastroeni (Convey, 46), Beasley (Zizzo, 76)

FORWARD

Dempsey (Davies, 86), Donovan (Hill, 64)

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