They should be disappointed. Hopefully, that disappointment accelerates their growth. Like in time for Friday’s England match.
Walker Zimmerman never needed to take Gareth Bale down with a sliding tackle inside the penalty box with the U.S. men soccer team leading Wales 1-0 late inThe Americans, ranked 16th in the world, were a tantalizing 10 or so minutes away from securing three of the most important points in their World Cup history against a 19th-ranked Wales team they should have defeated.
Teams that win their first match in World Cup group play historically advance to the knockout stage 84 percent of the time. This is what was in the tantalizing grasp of the U.S. side when Zimmerman committed that ill-advised foul inside the box. Bale, Wales’ best and most decorated player, had his back to the goal on the play and was not a threat to score at the moment. Zimmerman, a two-time MLS defender of the year, needed only to mark him, to contain him. Not blow him up.
Yet, Zimmerman aggressively threw his lower body into Bale in an effort to jar the ball loose, sending him to the turf and getting called for a game-changing foul. It resulted in a gift penalty kick for Bale, which he would convert, sending a missile off his left foot into the right side of the net, deflecting off the hand of U.S. goalkeeper Matt Turner, a Park Ridge, N.J., native who played his college ball just up I-95 in Connecticut at Fairfield University. “We gave them a lifeline,” Turner said after the match. “We dropped two points.” Indeed, a game that the U.S.
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