Live Blog of the Confederations Cup Semi-final between USA and Spain

USA 2                                      Spain O                       Final

Scoring

27′ Jozy Altidore

74′ Clint Dempsey

Live Game News

Three Stars of the Match

1. Tim Howard. The shutout, and many great saves.

2. Clint Dempsey, Goal and an assist

3. Jozy Altidore, The first goal that got it all started.

It has been a big night for the U.S. they will play the winner of Brazil and South Africa, in Sunday’s final.

Brazil- South Africa game is tomorrow at 2:30. Spain will play the loser off that match.

Final Score              USA 2            Spain 0

US has shocked the world and beaten the number one time in the world.

One minute of 3 minutes gone in stoppage time.

We are in to stoppage time.

Pique gets a yellow card for Spain.

88′ Clint Dempsey out, Bornstein in.

87′ Michael Bradley gets a red card.

85′ Spain corner, resulting shot is blocked away.

84′ US sub Connor Casey, in      Altidore, out

82′ US in scramble mold tring to hold on.

Spain shot fisted away by Howard.

Current shots are 7-2 in favor of Spain.

David Villa strikes it right at Howard, easy save.

Spain gets free kick in great position.

77′ Spain Sub        Mata in, Riera out

Spain will certainly throw everyone forward now.

Clint Dempsey scores in the 74 min.

US Goal!!!      2-0

Jay Demerit has done a great job in the back.

Landon Donavan’s pass goes wide, ad U.S, got possesion for the first time in a while.

A defensive shift in tactics for the U.S. with the last sub.

69′ US Sub    Charlie Davies out, Feilhaber in

68′ Spain Sub.   Cazorla in and Fabregas out

U.S. needs to look to go forward, because it has once again slanted heavily in Spain’s favor.

66′ Ramos has shot blocked, U.S. throwing their body in front off the ball.

Tim Howard has been under a ton of pressure in the last couple of minutes and came up big

Riera has his shot blocked, then save by Howard

61′ David Villa with a shot that went wide. No call as Altidore goes down in the box.

59′ US doing a better job of getting some chances .

Good job by Altidore to win a corner for the U.S., Clark shot is saved.

Riera has a shot from inside the box go wide on the near side.

U.S. gets forward for the first time in the half, cross to strong though.

David Villa shot off of a corner stop by Howard.

Spain Corner, cleared away

five minutes into the second half, and it has gone much like the first with Spain dominating chances and time of possession.

48′ Great save by Tim Howard, Spain then had a shot go high.

47′ Clint Dempsey’s header goes high off of the corner for the U.S.

Second half is underway.

Teams get ready for the start of the Second Half.

U.S. from the beginning has made a point to have at least 9 guys behind the ball.

Spain has lots of offensive fire power and should still get plenty of chances to score in the 2nd half.

The U.S, should look to go forward more as them seem to have gone into a shell

U.S. should be trilled to be in this position.

Half Time, US leads 1-0

Spain still on the attack. They are getting chance after chance, the U.S, once to get to half time.

Ramos had a chance in the box, once again swept away by the U.S.

Spain on the offensive again, Torres continues to get looks in the box.

36′ Capdavila picks up yellow card, Donovan’s free kick deflects wide.

In the last 5 minutes, the play has been almost entirely on the U.S. side of the field.

Spain has been on the offensive since the U.S. goal.

32′ David Villa fires a shot in the box over the net

31′ Spain gets corner

Jozy Altidore gets a yellow card for taking his short off in goal celebration.

In 26′ Jozy Altidore scores from Clint Dempsey

U.S. Gooooal!!!!!! 1-0

next Spain corner goes short, and that doesn’t work either.

25′ Spain corner, quickly cleared.

U.S. having trouble clearing the ball, and getting it ahead to their forwards.

21′ long shot from Landon Donovan goes wide.

Spain starting to look a lot more threatening when they go forward, compared to the U.S.

off sides on Torres, in a great spot to score

15 minutes in, game starting to settle down.

Each team has 2 shots so far.

11′ Great chance for Fordando Torres, went wide

10′ No score, both teams with chances

9′ Shoot fired wide by Clint Dempsey from 25 yards out

8th min U.S. with a good start, getting more chances than Spain.

Charlie Davies’ bicycle kick goes wide

US yellow card to Landon Donovan

4′ US corner, Spain clears

Spain chance  off of deflection

2′ Spain with lots of possession early

game underway!

game time 2:30 Eastern

check back for more

a few minutes before game time

Starting Lineups

Current Lineup
Spain	United States
1 Iker Casillas (G)	(G) Tim Howard 1
5 Carles Puyol (D)	(D) Oguchi Onyewu 5
11 Joan Capdevila (D)	(D) Jonathan Spector 21
15 Sergio Ramos (D)	(D) Carlos Bocanegra 3
3 Gerard Pique (D)	(D) Jay DeMerit 15
8 Xavi (M)	(M) Landon Donovan 10
14 Xabi Alonso (M)	(M) Clint Dempsey 8
10 Cesc Fábregas (M)	(M) Michael Bradley 12
18 Albert Riera Ortega (M)	(M) Ricardo Clark 13
9 Fernando Torres (F)	(F) Jozy Altidore 17
7 David Villa (F)	(F) Charlie Davies 9

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