{"id":33692,"date":"2015-04-16T00:03:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T04:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=33692"},"modified":"2015-04-16T00:06:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T04:06:41","slug":"dos-a-cero-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=33692","title":{"rendered":"Dos a Cero, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"615\" height=\"346\" src=\"http:\/\/player.foxfdm.com\/sports\/embed-iframe.html?videourl=http:\/\/link.theplatform.com\/s\/BKQ29B\/p951jux38_zy?mbr=true&amp;policy=51457\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-year-old Jordan Morris, a student at Stanford University, scored his first international goal, and 22-year old New England Revolution star Juan Agudelo scored his first U.S. goal since 2011, as the U.S. defeated Mexico 2-0 in a friendly at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The win improves the U.S. Men\u2019s National Team\u2019s record in 2015 to 2-2-1.<\/p>\n<p>In a starting U.S. line-up of mostly domestic based players, Morris was the most notable starter. The Stanford sophomore was the only non-professional in the match and made his first start for the U.S. after brief cameos in previous friendlies. Revolution striker Agudelo, who hadn\u2019t played for the U.S. in over a year, replaced Morris in the 65<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico had the better of the possession in the first half, but both sides struggled to create chances as a poor quality field led to some unpredictable bounces and tricky footing. Unsurprisingly given how the half played out, the teams entered halftime scoreless.<\/p>\n<p>Just four minutes into the second half, however, The U.S. took the lead through Morris after some nice build-up work from Michael Bradley ended with the ball at the feet of Gyassi Zardes. Zardes attempted to play it back to Bradley, but it instead deflected off a Mexican defender and found Morris making a run into the box. Morris ran through the right side of the area before slotting a shot past Cirilo Saucedo to give the U.S. a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Juan Agudelo doubled that advantage in the 72<sup>nd<\/sup> minute after Bradley found him making a run down the left flank with a long ball from midfield. Agudelo managed to gain separation from his defender at the top of the box before hitting a low shot past Saucedo that bead him at the near post, making it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. would hold on from there to win. They next return to action with a match against the Netherlands on June 5 in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20-year-old Jordan Morris, Revolution striker Juan Agudelo both score to give U.S. victory over Mexico by familiar 2-0 scoreline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15],"tags":[891,1304,892,1279],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Agudelo-1.png?fit=600%2C415","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33692"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33697,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33692\/revisions\/33697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}