Poland 3 USA 1
Olisadebe 3, Kryszalowicz 5, Marcin Zewlakow 66; Donovan 83

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Oh, what a torrid night the 4.30am shift with the $3.00 tickets at the G&D, 98103 must've had!!! Whatever happened to the USA? Did they become complacent or something? They were terrible today; absolutely awful. Shellshocked they might've been after conceding 2 goals in the first 5 minutes, but they fell to pieces. They had no shape - no cohesion - no nothing. Even the mighty Joe-Max (100th cap) didn't look as though he might be able to save them - but, fortunately, along came the cavalry in the form of Korea!!!

Poland had made 6 changes to their team. Not certain whether they were even bigger blokes, or whether the shorts had shrunk during the typhoon of the Portugal match - but they seemed to be a bit clipper! Oh, credit to Poland, who were only playing for pride - they did redeem themselves somewhat. Question though - why didn't these players play the other two games?

USA, you were very, very lucky. Let's hope you pull your socks up in time for the gringo match. I don't know what happened to Agoos to cause his injury. It looked like perhaps he was indicating that somebody had thrown a missile from the crowd. Well, whatever, he's had a rather stressful WC so far and could probably do with the rest. Friedel saved another penalty today - so there's another one for the record books!

Teams

Poland: Radoslaw Majdan, Tomasz Klos (Tomasz Waldoch 89), Jacek Zielinski (capt), Arkadiusz Glowacki, Jacek Krzynowek, Maciej Zurawski, Mazciej Murawski, Cezary Kucharski (Marcin Zewlakow 64), Emmanuel Olisadebe (Pawel Sibik 86), Pawel Kryszalowicz, Marek Kozminski.

Booked: Majdan, Kozminski, Kucharski.

USA: Brad Friedel, Frankie Hejduk, Jeff Agoos (DaMarcus Beasley 36), Eddie Pope, Tony Sanneh, John O'Brien, Claudio Reyna (capt), Earnie Stewart (Cobi Jones 68), Clint Mathis, Brian McBride (Joe-Max Moore 58), Landon Donovan.

Booked: Hejduk.

Attendance: 26,482

Referee: Lu Jun (China)

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