Landon Donovan and the U.S. soccer team pulled off a miracle scoring in the 91st minute of play to win their game against Algeria 1-0 and advance to the round of 16 in the World Cup. A loss or tie would have ended the U.S. run and just when it seemed like it was over, they stormed back for an unbelievable ending.
The U.S. out played the Algerians and had a number of good scoring opportunities (Dempsey's nullified goal because of offsides, Altidore miskicking the ball on an open net, Dempsey hitting the post, etc.) but they couldn't punch it in. Also, the Algerians seemed content playing for a tie as it seemed they had the mentality of we're not advancing and we're not going to let you advance either.
Still, at about the 90th minute, when the U.S. had already sent more players to the offensive side leaving the defense shorthanded, the Algerians had numbers and had a good crossing pass that one of the Algerians put a head on sending a hard shot on the U.S. goal but it was right to Howard. At that moment, I was thinking that we need to outlet the ball quickly and just as the Algerians had numbers on us, maybe we can transition quickly and get numbers on them. That's exactly what happened. Howard threw the ball out. It got to Donovan who dribbled a good part of the field. He sent it wide, that guy knocked it to the middle to a streaking I believe Dempsey who kicked the ball just as the goalie was arriving. The ball bounced off the goalie leaving a juicy rebound for a trailing Donovan to fire into the left bottom corner of the net. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
Hopefully the U.S. can carry this momentum and fire into their next game against Ghana on Saturday.
GO U.S.A.!!!
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