U-18 USMNT fall to Portadown FC 0-1 in friendly
Soccer goals: Battling Portadown FC in a friendly warm-up before the commencement of the Milk Cup, U-18 USMNT fell 0-1 from a Portadown FC 77th minute goal. Leading in shots and shots-on-goal categories over the USA, 12 and 5 respectively, Portadown FC took advantage of the US' rustiness.
Lineups:
USA: 24-Zachary MacMath (1-Justin Luthy, 41); 8-Kofi Sarkodie, 4-Chad Barson, 15-Zarek Valentin, 2-Paolo Del Piccolo; 13-Jose Altamirano (20-Jossimar Sanchez, 41), 16-Nicholas Millington (23-Harrrison Petts, 41), 5-Amobi Okugo (6-Scott Prozeller, 41), 7-Greg Garza (14-Miles Byass, 41); 11-Dion Acoff (19-Ryan Finley, 41), 9-Will Bates (10-Hasani Sinclair)
Subs not used:
Head Coach: Mike Matkovich
Portadown FC: David Miskelly; Keith O'Hara, Ross Redman, Darren Kelly, John Convery; Wesley Boyle, Ryan McCluskey, Richard Clarke, Gary McCutcheon; Neil Teggart, Tim Mouncey
U-18 USMNT shocked by Denmark 1-2 in Northern Ireland Milk Cup
Conceding two early first half goals to Denmark proved to be a insurmountable task, as the U-18 USMNT failed to answer back with two goals. Although the U-18 squad played a Denmark squad comprised of amply developed 1990-born players, while the US boasted more diminutive 1991-born players, Will Bates headed a Jose Altamirano cross into the left post which deflected and was followed up by Bates in the 70th minute.
Pressing for another goal in the final minutes, the U-18 squad fell short. “This was a good experience to play an older team at the international level," said Coach Matkovich to US Soccer. "I was pleased with the performance overall, but disappointed as we had more chances than our opponent.”
Despite dominating in shots, shots-on-goal, and corner kicks over Denmark, 21, 11, and 11 respectively, the US squad failed to find the equalizer. Denmark demonstrated great efficiency scoring two goals on 8 shots, 6 shots-on-goal, and one corner kick.
The U-18 US squad faced Germany on July 29th. News and details of the game will arrive as soon as available.
Lineups:
USA: 24-Zachary MacMath; 8-Kofi Sarkodie, 4-Chad Barson (23-Harrison Petts, 85), 15-Zarek Valentin, 2-Paolo Del Piccolo (10-Hasani Sinclair, 65); 5-Scott Prozeller, 16-Nicholas Millington (14-Miles Byass, 39), 5-Amobi Okugo, 7-Greg Garza, 13-Jose Altamirano; 9-Will Bates (19-Ryan Finley, 80)
Subs not used: 1-Justin Luthy, 11-Dion Acoff, 20-Jossimar Sanchez
Head Coach: Mike Matkovich
DEN: 1-Nicklas Wier Højlund, 4-Jacob Albrechtsen, 5-Jesper Bøge Pedersen (3-Alexander Jackson Møller, 87), 6-Anders Christiansen (14-Mikkel Rygaard Jense, 56), 8-Saban Øzdogan; 9-Oliver Feldballe Petersen, 10-Christian Gytkjaer (17-Zakaria Hassan, 77), 11-Simon Christoffersen, 12-Jonas Jacobsen; 15-Michael Sten Jensen, 18-Thomas Asmussen
Subs not used: 2-Jonas S. Thorsen, 7-Mikkel Christensen, 13-Semere Haile, 16-Jens Rinke Kristensen
Head Coach: Keld Bordinggaard
Stats Summary: USA / Denmark
Shots: 21 / 8
Shots on Goal: 11 / 6
Saves: 4 / 10
Corner Kicks: 11 / 1
Fouls: 13 / 17
Offside: 0 / 0
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