Ghana vs USA

So I've taken a real shine to Ghana again; I greatly enjoyed their game against Czech Republic in 2006, and have pretty much adopted them as my African team. One can only wonder how good they might be if they had Essien playing as one of the three attacking midfielders.

1) Anthony Annan has had an absolutely belting world cup. He simply sits deep, intercepts when he can, crunches when he has to, wins the ball, and passes it simply, almost never giving it away. He is the best pure defensive midfielder I've seen in the tournament, and all they ever say is "he doesn't mind a tackle". He's much more than that.

2) Kevin Prince Boateng should have been booked for that celebration.

3) Why the fuck do America concede within minutes of the restart?

4) The American's looked so much better when they moved Dempsey to centre forward, with Donovan joining, and a more defensive player on the left of midfield.

5) Both these teams should be proud of their tournament. If Ghana manage to progress to the semi-final, and thus become Africa's most successful World Cup side ever, it will be a decent reward for their organisation. I cannot help also to feel that England should be glad that they failed to win the group: they could comfortably have lost to this Ghana team, which might be even more psychologically damaging to the press that Sunday.