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...have to take a careful approach and not try to win the game in the first 10 minutes," said U.S. captain Claudio Reyna, whose midfield play has been absolutely terrific - world-class, fittingly. Nor, he said, can the team leave itself open to counterattacks in the early going. "An early goal is these games is critical," said Arena. The Czechs scored within the first five minutes against the U.S., and never lost control of the game after that. Ghana scored in the second minute against the Czechs, and won the match...
...players - it's a lot of space to cover on a 130-yard soccer field. "Claudio was fantastic, he had a great game," said Arena of his captain, Claudio Reyna, who marshaled the U.S. team with a combination of smarts and aggression, picking apart Italy's midfield with his passing. Despite the manpower shortage, the U.S. still managed to defend and attack in numbers. Arena inserted DaMarcus Beasley in the 62d minute, and the move almost paid off instantly: Beasley broke in from the left and put one past Italian keeper Gianluigi Buffon, but Mr. Larrionda disallowed the strike because...
...Koller, beat two U.S. defenders to a cross and put the Czechs ahead 1-0. It was the beginning of a long night. Koller was one of three Czech players the U.S. had to contain, the others being Pavel Nedved and Tomas Rosicky, the twin engines of the midfield. They went 0-for-3 on that account...
...goals were three more than the total of junior Greg Cohen, who tallied 30 points to finish second in scoring for Harvard.The Crimson outshot opponents by a 515-432 margin, thanks in large part to junior faceoff-specialist John Henry Flood’s .545 win percentage at midfield.“It’s just my job to go out there and just try to pick up the ball,” Flood said after his game against the Big Green, downplaying a performance in which he controlled 25 of 30 faceoffs.But what can?...
...minutes on Saturday evening, John Henry Flood kept the Harvard men’s lacrosse team in the game against Dartmouth. The junior midfielder won a career-high 25 of 29 faceoffs heading into the third overtime, and kept a Big Green offense—the Ivy League’s second-most prolific—off the field enough during the game to help the Crimson to a stunning 73-36 advantage in shots taken.But Flood was unable to win his 30th and most important faceoff, one that Dartmouth controlled and used to score the game-winning goal just...