Freakazoid,
After a whole post your gripe is that I said we lost to a 3rd string USA side. You seem to have missed the plot.
Ok I stand corrected we lost to a USA side that was missing its best player, captain Reyna and they did not train properly because of a wage dispute.
Point is we still lorse and did not capitalise on their weakness at the time.
We lorse to them again in the USA with a weaker US side.In fact they totally dominate us that match...I left some stats and line ups below.Imagine they outshoot we 18-1.......But some feel we better than them and we could beat them
And yes USA can beat us with a Total MLS side. In fact they even beat us with no professionals and college students in 89.
Anyways infer what you will from the info below.
Match-up: USA vs. Trinidad and Tobago
Date: February 9, 2005Â
Competition: FIFA World Cup qualifier – Final Round
Venue: Queen’s Park Oval – Port of Spain, Trinidad
Kickoff: 3:30 p.m. AT
Attendance: n/a
Weather: 91 degrees, hot and hazy
Scoring Summary:Â 1Â Â 2Â Â F
USAÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 1Â Â 1Â Â 2
Trinidad & Tobago 0  1  1
Scoring:
USA – Eddie Johnson (Steve Cherundolo) 30th minute.
USA – Eddie Lewis (Landon Donovan)  54.
TRI – Angus Eve (Anton Pierre) 89.
Lineups:
USA: 18-Kasey Keller; 6-Steve Cherundolo, 23-Eddie Pope, 12-Cory Gibbs, 4-Carlos Bocanegra; 25-Pablo Mastroeni (8-Clint Dempsey, 66), 10-Landon Donovan (Capt.), 17-DaMarcus Beasley, 7-Eddie Lewis (5-Chris Albright, 82); 20-Brian McBride, 9-Ed Johnson (3-Gregg Berhalter, 87)
Subs not used: 24-Marcus Hahnemann, 2-Frankie Hejduk, 13-Taylor Twellman, 16-Josh Wolff
Head Coach: Bruce Arena.
TRI: 1-Shaka Hislop; 2-Marlon Rojas; 4-Marvin Andrews; 5-Bret Sancho; 7-Leslie Fitzpatrick (13-Cornell Glenn, 71); 10-Anthony Rougier (8-Angus Eve, 46); 15-Kenwyne Jones; 11-Carlos Edwards (12-Densil Theobold, 74); 14-Stern John; 16-Anton Pierre; 19-Dwight Yorke
Subs not used: 21-Clayton Ince; 6-Derek King; 9-Scott Sealy.
Theobald; 3-David Charles
Head Coach: Bertille St.Clair.
Match-up: USA vs. Trinidad & Tobago
Date: August 17, 2005
Competition: FIFA World Cup qualifier
Venue: Rentschler Field – East Hartford, Connecticut
Kickoff: 8 p.m. ET
Attendance: 25,488
Weather: 80 degrees, clear
Scoring Summary: 1Â Â 2Â Â F
USAÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 1Â Â 0Â Â 1
TRIÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 0Â Â 0Â Â 0
Scoring:
USA – Brian McBride (Bobby Convey) 2nd minute.
Lineups:
USA: 18-Kasey Keller; 4-Chris Albright, 22-Oguchi Onyewu, 3-Gregg Berhalter, 7-Eddie Lewis; 19-Steve Ralston (9-Santino Quaranta, 72), 10-Claudio Reyna (capt.), 5-John O’Brien (14-Chris Armas, 46), 15-Bobby Convey; 21-Landon Donovan, 20-Brian McBride (13-Taylor Twellman, 83)
Subs not used: 1-Tim Howard, 2-Greg Vanney, 11-Jeff Cunningham, 12-Jimmy Conrad
Head Coach: Bruce Arena.
TRI: 21-Kelvin Jack; 3-Avery John, 4-Marvin Andrews, 2-Atiba Charles (8-Scott Sealy, 46+), 6-Dennis Lawrence; 9-Aurtis Whitley, 16-Silvio Spann, 7-Christopher Birchall, 20-Collin Samuel (5-Brent Sancho, 46+); 19-Dwight Yorke (capt.), 14-Stern John (15-Kenwyne Jones, 55)
Subs not used: 1-Shaka Hislop, 18-Densil Theobold, 23-Anthony Wolfe, 24-Cyd Gray
Head Coach: Leo Beenhakker
Stats Summary:Â Â Â USAÂ Â TRI
Shots             18    1
Saves              0    10
Corner Kicks       5     3
Fouls              19   13
Offside            3     4