Egypt vs USA

June 20, 2009

Egypt head into their clash with USA in Rustenburg in high spirits, fresh on from a shock win over world champions Italy last time out. The Stars and Stripes, for their part, are suffering through a dreadful run of form and poor results here in South Africa, having lost both of their games thus far.
American confidence is likely to be significantly lower than that of the African champions ahead of the first-ever meeting between the two nations. Bob Bradley's youthful side have lost both of their games, first 3-1 to Italy and then 3-0 to Brazil. Although they put up firm resistance in their curtain raiser, the CONCACAF champions were well and truly outplayed by Brazil last time out.

"It's disappointing to lose our first two games, but we're still in it until we're out of it. Whatever the case, we'll have to show up and give our best performance in the final group game. I think we've learned a lot from our first two matches and hopefully we can get something out of the third with Egypt," USA defender Jonathan Spector.

"The game against the United States is even more important than the ones against Italy and Brazil, if I were being honest. If we don't win against the Americans, our victory over Italy will be rendered largely meaningless. This is a decisive game and we must be ready for a fight," Egypt playmaker Mohamed Aboutrika.

June 21 Egypt vs. USA 11:25 a.m. ESPN2, TeleFutura

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