{"id":40606,"date":"2016-01-31T20:29:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T01:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=40606"},"modified":"2016-01-31T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T04:11:56","slug":"ngueyn-gets-1st-usmnt-start-aids-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=40606","title":{"rendered":"Nguyen Gets 1st USMNT Start, Aids Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xkxYQcCzQI0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Revolution midfielder Lee Nguyen earned his first national team start to help the United States stake a last-gasp 3-2 victory over Iceland on Sunday at the StubHub Center in Carson, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen, who went the full 90 while stationed on the left during his eighth career cap, was part of a U.S. effort that outshot Iceland 16-6, the last of which Steve Birnbaum put into the back of the net in the 90th minute. <\/p>\n<p>Former Revolution midfielder Jermaine Jones, who spoke last week about his dissatisfaction with the offer presented by the brass of the Foxboro-based outfit, went 71 minutes before he was replaced by Tony Tchani. <\/p>\n<p>The dramatic ending made up for a dull start for the U.S., who conceded the first goal when Iceland forward Eidur Gudjohnsen fired a shot that deflected off Michael Orozco and fell into the back of the net in the 16th minute. <\/p>\n<p>After dusting themselves off and returning to their feet, the hosts regrouped four minutes later when Jozy Altidore latched onto a pass from Michael Bradley and buried it to make it one-all at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Iceland was strong out of the gate again in the second stanza thanks to a sensational effort from Aron Sigurdarson, who went down the right and blasted a shot out of the reach of Luis Robles to put the guests back on top in the 48th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. may have been down, but they were far from out of it. Just before the stroke of an hour, Altidore curled a cross toward the far post for Birnbaum, who nodded it across goal to allow Orozco to head it through in the 59th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Any notion that the U.S. was content to settle for a draw in their 2016 debut was rebutted in emphatic fashion when Birnbaum pounded a free kick from Bradley into the back of the net to give the hosts the dramatic win.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. will play the second of its winter camp friendlies on Friday when they meet Canada at the StubHub Center. Kickoff is set for 10:45pm ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Nguyen earned his first full 90 in a U.S. kit to help his teammates claim a 3-2 comeback win over Iceland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40607,"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":[22],"tags":[891,988,107,892,1279,1281],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Lee-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\/40606"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40614,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40606\/revisions\/40614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}