Paul Aguilar’s extra-time goal puts Mexico past US 3-2

While the Confederations Cup isn’t necessarily the Federation Internationale de Football Association World Cup, it will provide plenty of global competition just a year before the bigger tournament takes place.

The rivalry between the two regional soccer powers took a long time to build as Mexico suffered only three losses in the first 32 encounters between the teams while winning on 24 occasions.

“You need a roster of 23 guys where you really feel, as a coach, that in this one specific opportunity, they are the right ones to get the job done”, Klinsmann said.

That CONCACAF trophy is a shiny trifle – and while the Americans might go two summers without a major global tournament if they can’t qualify for the Confederations Cup, the extra rest also might benefit them heading into the 2018 World Cup. When he gets the service he needs, which will come from Clint Dempsey, Gyasi Zardes and company, Altidore will have the confidence he needs to push his nation towards victory. “It shows you again the growth of the game in the country that more and more people talk about it and express their expectations”.

“I think it was an open game until the very, very end”, he said.:And we thought already [in overtime], OK, how to prepare the penalty shootout.

When Germany was crushed by Italy, 4-1, in a World Cup warm-up in March 2006, head coach Jürgen Klinsmann fled his native land to his house in the United States.

Klinsmann has selected 16 members of the 2014 World Cup squad for the game at the Rose Bowl.

The biggest question is who has the advantage on Saturday? Both teams have two matches left. El Tri right back Paul Aguilar, in what was one of many marauding runs up the right wing, pushed the ball into the US half then drilled a diagonal ball toward the top corner of the box where Mexico forward Oribe Peralta wisely left it for Jimenez before peeling off toward the endline. Will Chicarito and Oribe Peralta walk through the shaky USMNT defense?

Besides, firing Klinsmann would be a surprising move on the part of U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati, a strong supporter.

This will be a game that is remembered for years to come. “So we’ll try to get them over to our end as well”. “It’s a result that we earned, for what they (the players) did and what they were looking for”.

As for Klinsmann, who knows what he will do.

“We are thinking about Saturday’s game”, he finished. By the start of play, there was not an empty pocket of seats in the stadium.

I think that Mexico will come out and control the game. “Over 120 minutes, we did more to earn that third goal”.

This is a huge game. Tempers will be high, and the referee will have his work cut out to keep the game under control.

But first, the US and Mexico will add another game to the local rivalry.

All the momentum the United States gained was lost when Mexico’s Paul Aguilar scored in the 118th minute to give Mexico a 3-2 lead.

Things got chippy in the 33rd minute between Raul Jiminez and Brad Guzan. A back four of Fabian Johnson, Michael Orozco Fiscal (just a hunch there), Matt Besler, and DaMarcus Beasley. Going off of what Klinsmann seems to like the past few months, Ventura Alvarado will start.

“I do not see it as two giants”.

Moving to the midfield, we will see a whole bunch of experience here.

Thanks to the USMNT’s early exit in the 2015 Gold Cup this summer, Jurgen Klinsmann’s group will have to take on Mexico in a one-game playoff to determine who represents the region at the 2017 Confederations Cup.