Christian Post Report – The USA will play Mexico on Wednesday night with just three months to go until the Gold Cup gets underway. That means that both Jurgen Klinsmann and counterpart Miguel Herrera will be looking to see who they want in their squads for the upcoming competition. Tonight’s game will kick off at 9 p.m. ET and takes place from the Alamo Dome in San Antonio, Texas. The game can be watched on TV on the Fox Sports 1 network, or online through free live stream (details below).
(Photo: Reuters/Toru Hanai)
United States national soccer team coach Jurgen Klinsmann attends a training session at the Dunas Arena soccer stadium in Natal June 15, 2014.
This could be one of the last opportunities Klinsmann and Herrera have to look at their players before the Gold Cup, and even though they will want to experiment to a certain extent they will also know the importance of building confidence and getting a starting 11 to gel together ahead of a big tournament.
Tonight’s game is not an official FIFA international date, and so both teams will only be calling upon mostly their domestic based players, which does limit the usefulness of the fixture to both managers somewhat, but they will still have a clear agenda and goal for tonight’s game.
Despite the limitations on bringing more wider players in to tonight’s game, Klinsmann has been able to bring in DeAndre Yedlin from Tottenham Hotspur and Julian Green from Bayern Munich, who is on loan at Hamburg right now.
Klinsmann will also send out Michael Bradley to lead his side, but the starting 11 and the team formation is still to be determined.
One added ingredient about tonight’s game is that the Alamo Dome does have astro-turf, and that means for today’s fixture, groundsmen have laid temporary grass down. That creates problems in itself though, and could make for an uneven bounce in some areas. However, both teams will have the same challenge and the game will no doubt be fierce between these two rivals.
The game between the USA and Mexico will start at 9 p.m. ET and can be watched online through live stream by clicking here.
Source : Christian Post