US/Algeria: CRUNCH TIME

45 minutes to decide whether or not we get crushed in the knockout stage. That's a crushing I would take rather well. Do it for the team.

• Wanna know how I feel right now? This.
• The announcers keep on talking about how the US has been getting great ball movement. Indeed they have. But they keep forgetting to move the ball in one particularly important way... into the net. Someone wasn't paying attention at soccer camp.
• Dempsey shows the unparalleled skill to not only miss once, but TWICE on a one-on-one with the keeper. We should be up 3-0. This blog is about to get very unprofessional.
• This game is starting to look suspiciously like Nellie ball.
• Buddleberries in for the US and looks good on his first touch.
• Huuuuuge corner for the us. Landycakes to send it in, and... misses just wide. I'm starting to breathe just a little bit shallower.
• Header DRILLED at the Algerian keeper in the 67th minute. COME ONNNNNN
• 15 minutes left...
• 10 minutes...
• GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL DONOVAN (92'): CLUTCHZILLA 1-0 JOKE-GERIA YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES. LANDYCAKES!!!!!!!
• Landon Donovan. That's what I'm naming my firstborn. Last name included.
  
• FULL TIME I'd sit through effing God Bless America right now. THAT is how pumped I am. GROUP C WINNERS