{"id":44827,"date":"2017-03-28T23:57:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=44827"},"modified":"2017-03-28T23:57:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T03:57:12","slug":"u-s-survives-to-secure-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=44827","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Survives to Secure Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"44828\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=44828\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pulisic.png?fit=600%2C415\" data-orig-size=\"600,415\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Pulisic\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pulisic.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pulisic.png?fit=600%2C415\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44828\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pulisic.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pulisic.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pulisic.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clint Dempsey scored for the second straight game to help the United States secure a 1-1 draw to Panama at Estadio Rommel Fern\u00e1ndez in Tuesday&#8217;s World Cup Qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Dempsey tallied in the 39th minute when he converted a pass set up by Christian Pusilic, who fought off two defenders in the build up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CAPTAIN TO THE RESCUE! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clint_dempsey\">@clint_dempsey<\/a> gives <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ussoccer\">@ussoccer<\/a> the lead. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WCQ?src=hash\">#WCQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hAeUElmcut\">https:\/\/t.co\/hAeUElmcut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; beIN SPORTS USA (@beINSPORTSUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beINSPORTSUSA\/status\/846917501912961025\">March 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But any hopes of taking the lead into the break was disrupted by a 42nd minute Gabriel Gomez goal.<\/p>\n<p>Pulisic nearly put the guests back on top in the 51st minute when he volleyed a Jorge Villafana cross goalward before it was acrobatically denied by goalkeeper Jaime Penedo.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Howard made a strong save himself in the 59th minute when he denied a point-blank hit from Luis Tejada.<\/p>\n<p>Attleboro, Mass. native Geoff Cameron did not see action due to a quad strain suffered in Friday&#8217;s Qualifier vs. Honduras. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. will resume Qualifying on Jun. 8 at home against Trinidad &#038; Tobago at a venue to be determined. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Dempsey scored in his second straight game as the U.S. secured a 1-1 draw at Panama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44828,"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":[1607,159,891,418,892,259,1281],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pulisic.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\/44827"}],"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=44827"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44832,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44827\/revisions\/44832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}