USA VS. Algeria World Cup Live Blog: Results, Scores, Play By Play

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Published: June 23, 2010

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Welcome to the Bleacher Report's Live Blog for the U.S. versus Algeria match. They'll be live updates about every five minutes during the match, and I'll be responding to comments from time to time. Pre-game comments to come.

Line-Up

The big announcement: Oguchi Onyewu will not start against Algeria. I haven't heard any of explanation.

Onyewu has not had a strong World Cup so far. However, Jonathan Bornstein has had trouble playing for the National team with major mistakes at the worst time possible, especially inside the eighteen yard box.

Look at the Bornstein matchup as one of the key matchups in the game.

Edu will start in the middle with Bradley, so we'll see if that pairing works. Wrote an article on that pairing before the Algeria game.

Bradley chose Hercules Gomez over Edson Buddle, interesting choice. Buddle had a great game against Australia...one of the worst teams at the World Cup.

Gomez is a gritty player that has done well with his limited chances.

Best Outcome

In the end, here's the easiest way to evaluate advancement: If the U.S. wins, then the team's through.

Other than that, if the teams are level, say both teams tie, then the U.S. cannot have England score three more goals than them.

The U.S. cannot lose and advance.

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Man of the Match: Clint Dempsey

Others would say Donovan for the goal, but over ninety minutes Dempsey was the best player.

Donovan wasn't a presence for most of the match again. When will he be influential for ninety minutes?

Final Whistle

The United States is through on a late goal.

I disagree with Harkes' praise of Altidore. Other than the goal, he struggled with his touch, being involved in the offense, controlling the ball, and being an offensiv...
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