{"id":10324,"date":"2010-06-18T17:09:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T00:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10324"},"modified":"2010-06-18T17:09:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T00:09:58","slug":"hows-that-working-out-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=10324","title":{"rendered":"How's That Working Out For You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, Sun<\/em>, do you still stand by this analysis<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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All right, to be fair, the Three Lions are tied for second in Group C with the USA. Like the Yanks, England has drawn both their matches. But the two sides have to feel very different tonight. Team USA came back from two goals down to tie Slovenia, the group leader, and by rights should be leading the group tonight — they scored a third goal that was nullified on a phantom foul<\/a>.\u00a0 England, meanwhile, played to a sloppy 0-0 tie with Algeria, who had lost to Slovenia 0-1 in the opener.<\/p>\n

So to advance to the knockout round, America has to win over the consensus worst team in the group, while England has to beat a squad that’s shown some life. What’s more, Team USA has to feel good about the way they played in the second half today, while England, which came into the tourney ranked eighth in the world, has to be wondering what’s happened since the fifth minute in game one.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the US is in great shape to make it to the sudden death round, and once there, to maybe steal a game or two, make it to the quarters or — who knows — maybe the semis. That was their hope in the first place, anything more is gravy. England was a team that had the idea of winning the cup — and right now, you have to see them as no more than even money to get out of their pool.<\/p>\n

All can be made right if England wins next week. But if they find a way to fail to get out of their group while the Yanks do? Expect a great deal of wailing and gnashing of teeth to come from London — and a great deal of Schadenfreude <\/em>from Cardiff, Belfast, and Edinburgh — not to mention Washington, Algiers, and Ljubljana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, Sun, do you still stand by this analysis? All right, to be fair, the Three Lions are tied for second in Group C with the USA. Like the Yanks, England has drawn both their matches. But the two sides … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}