**Official USA vs Portugal World Cup Game Thread**
 

USA vs PORTUGAL | 5 PM KICK OFF | ESPN
Arena Amazonia | Manaus, Brazil

United States moves on to the knockout stage of the 2014 World Cup with a win. A tie or loss leaves a lot of other scenarios but lets just win this.

US faces a talented team that is having a bit of a crisis of confidence. They feature the best player (arguably) in the world in Cristiano Renaldo. If we can contain CR7 the rest of the team probably does not have what it takes to give us trouble.

Huge ****ing day for US Soccer.

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USA 3, Portugal 1

Would certainly take that. And not an unreasonable prediction.

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UMSNT travels to their next game.

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It's Ghana be awesome!

This is great.

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Time to kick ass

Gonna be nervous watching this ****ing game. Lets go USA!

I predict another 2-1 victory.

1, I CAN"T have been the only person to notice this.
2. I can't believe I didn't notice it before now.

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Google search shows two hits on twitter, but nothing else. --><-- this close.

I googled racist names for Portuguese people and got next to nothing.

Lame

This will be my 2nd soccer game that I've watched the whole game. First on on TV. I'm sure there will be millions more like me. A lot of pressure on these players. Hope they don't choke. Kick some Ronaldo butt and get us into the next round.


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USA! USA! USA!

Gotta be physical with Ronaldo......test out his knee, and his mental state.

We should have some pretty good chances on counters today.

Key today: CANNOT have terrible possession like we did against Ghana. We need to have the ball (and keep it) much more than we did Monday.