USA Handles Guatemala 2-0, Arnaud Earns CAP 2

Last night, the United States easily dispatched of Guatemala 2-0 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park outside of Denver. Read the U.S. Soccer match report here. Wizards midfielder/forward Davy Arnaud also made his second appearance for the U.S. National Team, entering in the 83rd minute for goalscorer and wonderkid Freddy Adu. (In his two CAPs, Arnaud has been late-game replacements for Landon Donovan and Adu. How about those two names Davy has entered for?) Arnaud put in a workmanlike effort in his seven minutes on the field, including a cutting pass to Sacha Kljestan inside the penalty area seconds before time expired. Kljestan took a touch, and Guatemala knocked the ball out of bounds for a corner kick. Had the play happened earlier in the game, Davy might have been responsible for a U.S. goal.

Let's look back at the predictions from Tuesday to see how we did.

In the 18, we only missed one player. Unfortunately, one player Bradley didn't dress I had in the starting lineup. Conor Casey, in reality, was in the 18 and played, while Sean Franklin was not in the 18 and, thus, didn't start.

In the starting lineup, Hillcrest nailed eight of 11 starters. Here was the actual lineup with our correct picks in bold. If we missed the pick, our choice will be listed in parenthesis:

(4-4-2) Guzan; Thorrington (Franklin), Goodson (Gibbs), Parkhurst, Bornstein; Adu, Mastroeni, Clark, Kljestan; Altidore, Cooper (Ching)

Subs: We had Cooper entering for Ching, so flip flop who started and who entered and we're still on track. We had Arnaud for Mastroeni, but he actually came in for Adu. We had Moor for Franklin, but the sub was Conor Casey for Altidore. Not terrible, but not great here.

As for numbers, we got only six of 18. Not too good. We flip-flopped Adu and Ching and probably would have had a better chance had Franklin actually been in the lineup. Oh well, there's always next time.