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Donovan: Room for improvement (FIFA.com) Sunday 13 June 2010 Getty ImagesAlthough admitting that his side are happier with the point gained in Rustenburg than their opponents England, Landon Donovan believes that USA have even more to give following their 1-1 draw with Fabio Capello's Group C favourites. The LA Galaxy star was a thorn in the side of the Three Lions, particularly during the first half, when his right-footed deliveries, either from the flanks or from set-pieces, created several chances for his countrymen. After going behind to Steven Gerrard's early goal, Bob Bradley's side needed someone to steady the ship and get the team on the attack. In Donovan, they had just that – a player willing to pick up the ball and run at England's defence. Somewhat self-effacingly, the 28-year-old refused to take any of the credit himself, preferring to share it among his team-mates. However, while the rest of the dressing room celebrated at holding the section's top seeds to a draw, the midfielder let slip that he was not completely happy with his own team's performance. "We're proud of the effort we put in and getting a result against one of the best teams in the world is a very positive start," he told FIFA.com. "Our energy, desire and willingness to fight was very good, but from a technical point of view we weren't as good as we wanted things to be. It's easy for people to tell us that we should qualify for the knockout stage and this is an easy group to navigate, but we know that it's going to be difficult. We cannot afford to take Slovenia lightly and we’ve got to work on the things that didn't go as well as we'd hoped over the next few days." USA return to their training base near Pretoria today, with five days to prepare for the match with Slovenia at Ellis Park. The Zmajecki represent an unknown quantity for the Americans, in stark contrast to England. Only four of Saturday's starting line-up – Michael Bradley, Steve Cherundolo, Ricardo Clark and Robbie Findley – had never been under contract with an English club in their careers, with Donovan himself enjoying a three-month loan spell with English Premier League side Everton earlier this year. Perhaps as a consequence, Donovan was quick to offer words of encouragement to Capello's men who left were left frustrated by their share of the spoils. "I'm sure England will go far in this tournament," he said. "They are a talented team with a lot of talented players and when you look at their squad, they have world-class players in every position. When you consider that we came off the field a little disappointed that we didn't play a little bit better and perhaps even win the game, it shows you just how well we did." South Africa 2010 represents Donovan's third FIFA World Cup™, following appearances at Korea/Japan and Germany respectively. However, in the midfielder's eyes, the tournament has lost none of its magic. He smiled as he said the memories of last night's game would live with him forever. "Playing at a World Cup is always great, but the experience of meeting England at the highest level is something which I don't think any of us will ever forget. There was an absolutely superb atmosphere inside the stadium. Both sets of fans were absolutely great." http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1...oom+improvement
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flea WORLD CUP THREAD Jun 6 2010, 03:46 AM flea World Cup injury jinx strikes again Jun 6 2010, 03:54 AM flea South Africa v Mexico kicking off in an hour ... Jun 11 2010, 07:26 AM ronaldinho0003 I'm pretty pumped. I picked Mexico and Uruguay... Jun 11 2010, 08:35 AM flea Yep Mexico & Uruguay here too
Can't belie... Jun 11 2010, 08:55 AM flea and we are off Jun 11 2010, 09:05 AM flea Juarez 1st yellow card of tournie - hand ball Jun 11 2010, 09:23 AM flea South Africa 1 Mexico 1
Uruguay 0 CHEATS 0
Oh th... Jun 12 2010, 04:42 AM flea Todays games
South Korea v Greece
Nigeria v Arge... Jun 12 2010, 04:43 AM metsfan2427 The Cheats looked horrible yesterday. Jun 12 2010, 06:33 AM metsfan2427 GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL... Jun 12 2010, 06:38 AM ronaldinho0003 I have South Korea, Argentina, and USA. Should be ... Jun 12 2010, 07:24 AM metsfan2427 2-0 South Kor.
Greece looks really bad Jun 12 2010, 07:42 AM Romanempire295 Rule Britannia!
Britannia rule the waves
Brito... Jun 12 2010, 08:49 AM ronaldinho0003 It's going to be an absolute battle out there.... Jun 12 2010, 11:06 AM metsfan2427 Good result for the USA Jun 12 2010, 03:36 PM ronaldinho0003 Great result, we completely outplayed them. Hope w... Jun 12 2010, 03:47 PM metsfan2427 No way i can say the USA outplayed Brittan.
A gr... Jun 12 2010, 05:42 PM chiefsfan101 I'd say we played good defense, from what I sa... Jun 12 2010, 05:22 PM 19th Century Indiana Jones Which match would be the most lopsided? Jun 12 2010, 05:44 PM metsfan2427
Games that have happened or games coming up? Jun 12 2010, 05:56 PM 19th Century Indiana Jones
The games coming up. Or are there two teams paire... Jun 12 2010, 07:11 PM metsfan2427
There aren't to many games like this as these... Jun 12 2010, 07:28 PM 19th Century Indiana Jones
When is that? I like to see a lot of scoring. :) Jun 12 2010, 07:38 PM Romanempire295
tuesday should be pretty lopsided but then again ... Jun 12 2010, 10:52 PM flea
Maybe Spain v Honduras?
England played poorly ... Jun 13 2010, 05:14 AM metsfan2427
I agree. No way the USA should have won. But if w... Jun 13 2010, 06:55 AM flea
Oh I expect both USA & England to qualify
... Jun 13 2010, 07:06 AM flea http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2010/0612/espn_newbutte... Jun 13 2010, 06:14 AM metsfan2427 I expect both to move on without much issue.
htt... Jun 13 2010, 08:01 AM flea Cappelo needs to start Green next game show the te... Jun 13 2010, 08:03 AM metsfan2427
From what i watched Slovenia and Algeria look hor... Jun 13 2010, 10:24 AM flea Slovenia 1-0. Another goal keeping MESS up Jun 13 2010, 08:06 AM ronaldinho0003 I am currently watching the Serbia v Ghana game ri... Jun 13 2010, 09:50 AM flea it generally is low, the most common world cup sco... Jun 13 2010, 12:14 PM metsfan2427
Ok, i'm just used to premier league scoreline... Jun 13 2010, 12:17 PM flea Big game in 40 minutes Jun 13 2010, 12:50 PM ronaldinho0003
Who you got? I picked a 1-1 draw. Jun 13 2010, 12:55 PM flea Have Germany for the win by 2
Though the aussies ... Jun 13 2010, 01:08 PM flea Cracker of a goal Jun 13 2010, 01:41 PM flea Germany destroyin the aussies. Jun 13 2010, 02:11 PM flea 4-0 Jun 13 2010, 03:05 PM ronaldinho0003 Yeah, I tried to take an underdog in that game. Th... Jun 13 2010, 03:19 PM flea 4-0 to Germany great gameof football
The Germans ... Jun 13 2010, 03:43 PM Cool_Hand_Flash Great thread Micheŕl! Let's cross our fing... Jun 13 2010, 06:32 PM flea Denmark Holland will be a tight one
I see a draw ... Jun 14 2010, 05:15 AM flea Holland v Denmark should be a cracker Jun 14 2010, 06:22 AM flea nasty tackle that Jun 14 2010, 06:59 AM flea 0-0 @ THE HALF Jun 14 2010, 07:27 AM ronaldinho0003 Did you see the striker for the Netherlands smash ... Jun 14 2010, 07:29 AM flea 1-0 Own goal Jun 14 2010, 07:31 AM flea http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1...typic... Jun 14 2010, 08:03 AM flea The matches
The Netherlands-Denmark, Group E, Joha... Jun 14 2010, 08:04 AM flea 2-0 Holland Dirk Kyut with a tap in Jun 14 2010, 08:10 AM road_runner_1964
That was a crazy match, watched the highlights l... Jun 15 2010, 08:41 AM flea
Greens was worse but the Algerian keepers was w... Jun 15 2010, 09:21 AM ronaldinho0003 Kyut totally beat that defender for the Danes to t... Jun 14 2010, 08:15 AM flea
I'll be in work for this evenins Italy game... Jun 14 2010, 08:18 AM flea Number crunching
1 FIFA World Cup victory for Slo... Jun 14 2010, 08:15 AM flea GAME OVER
Holland 2 0 Denmark
The Danes dissapo... Jun 14 2010, 08:19 AM Cool_Hand_Flash
Dissapointed you??!! Imagine how I feel... Jun 14 2010, 06:40 PM Tromni Seems like every De Jong tackle deserves a straigh... Jun 14 2010, 10:04 AM ronaldinho0003 Paraguay up on Italy 1-0 at half. Jun 14 2010, 02:19 PM flea Japan beat Cameroon 1-0
Italy & Paraguay drew... Jun 14 2010, 06:54 PM flea Today, Dirk Kuyt scored his 1st international goal... Jun 14 2010, 07:17 PM flea The only country to have won the FIFA World Cup™ o... Jun 14 2010, 07:22 PM flea Italy and Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is ... Jun 14 2010, 07:24 PM flea Italy and Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is ... Jun 14 2010, 07:24 PM rnpurdue To date IMO, the Germans have played the most insp... Jun 14 2010, 09:15 PM flea New Zealand gonna get a hiding Jun 15 2010, 06:04 AM flea New Zealand with the 1st chance Jun 15 2010, 06:36 AM flea New Zealand doing better than I expected
Slovakia... Jun 15 2010, 07:03 AM flea OOOOOOOOOOOOO great chance for the kiwis, side net... Jun 15 2010, 07:08 AM flea That was a clever free kic Jun 15 2010, 07:13 AM flea 2nd half starting. It'spretty cold & windy... Jun 15 2010, 07:31 AM flea 1-0
Slovakias first ever World Cup goal
beautifu... Jun 15 2010, 07:36 AM flea nice one two,unlucky with the bounce Jun 15 2010, 08:04 AM flea WOW Kiwis with a late equaliser Jun 15 2010, 08:20 AM flea Ivory Coast v Portugal next Jun 15 2010, 08:30 AM flea http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round...last+... Jun 15 2010, 09:12 AM flea MEH time for work Jun 15 2010, 09:34 AM rnpurdue Thought Brazil was going to win 12-0. I can't... Jun 15 2010, 02:23 PM ronaldinho0003
Same here. I had them winning by 3 or more. Jun 15 2010, 02:24 PM rnpurdue Even 2-1 is a disappointing score....Oh well, I gu... Jun 15 2010, 04:54 PM flea http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1...ill+e... Jun 15 2010, 07:38 PM flea http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsofth...ites+... Jun 15 2010, 07:39 PM flea http://www.drewlitton.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/... Jun 16 2010, 06:35 AM flea Honduras v Chile just kicked off
Leaves 1 more g... Jun 16 2010, 06:36 AM flea 2 yellow cards in 19 minutes Jun 16 2010, 06:51 AM flea 1-0 Chile Jun 16 2010, 07:10 AM flea Halftime, Chile up 1-0 & look the better team Jun 16 2010, 07:19 AM joe31 Wow, Im watching the Spain game right now. Their b... Jun 16 2010, 09:17 AM baseballguy601
Yeah I agree. crazy.
In other news, all these dr... Jun 16 2010, 09:23 AM baseballguy601 :jawdrop: GREAT SAVE!!! Jun 16 2010, 09:24 AM 19th Century Indiana Jones Go SPAIN!!!! Jun 16 2010, 09:36 AM ronaldinho0003 Spain is truly the best team in the tournament in ... Jun 16 2010, 09:45 AM 19th Century Indiana Jones
American style! With refs in their pockets. ... Jun 16 2010, 09:50 AM ronaldinho0003
:lol: figures... Jun 16 2010, 09:51 AM baseballguy601 They aren't playing like it. They are missing ... Jun 16 2010, 09:46 AM
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