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| WORLD CUP MATCH #56 | ||
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VS |  |
| Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador, BRA | ||
| July 1, 2014 | ||
| 4:00 PM ET | ||
| ESPN - Ian Darke and Taylor Twellman | ||
| Starting XI | ||
| Divock Origi | Forward | Graham Zusi, Clint Dempsey, Alejandro Bedoya |
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Eden Hazard, Dries Mertens, Kevin De Bruyne Marouane Fellaini, Axel Witsel |
Midfield | Jermaine Jones, Michael Bradley, Geoff Cameron |
| Jan Vertonghen, Vincent Kompany, Daniel Van Buyten, Toby Alderweireld | Defense | DaMarcus Beasley, Matt Besler, Omar Gonzalez, Fabian Johnson |
| Thibaut Courtois | Goalkeeper | Tim Howard |
| Sammy Bossut, Nicolas Lombaerts, Laurent Ciman, Simon Mignolet, Thomas Vermaelen, Mousa Dembele, Nacer Chadli, Romelu Lukaku, Adnan Januzaj | Bench | Nick Rimando, Kyle Beckerman, Brad Davis, Brad Guzan, Chris Wondolowski, Jozy Altidore, Timothy Chandler, Mix Diskerud, Aron Johannsson, John Brooks, DeAndre Yedlin, Julian Green |
| Game Officials | ||
| Referee: Djamel Haimoudi | ||
Are you nervous yet? I'm nervous. All things considered, the United States are on the more desirable end of the bracket and neither Belgium nor Argentina nor the Netherlands nor Costa Rica are among the big tournament favorites.
There are no more words for me to type, namely because I am too nervous to string together a sentence. Comment on the game in our thread below. Go go USA.