55,407 were at Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday for the United States' final friendly before leaving for South Africa. With US coach Bob Bradley using a first choice lineup, the team found it tough going early against Turkey.
Arda Turan opened the scoring in the 27th minute, and that score held through halftime. US forward Jozy Altidore equalized in the 59th minute. Clint Dempsey scored the winner in the 75th.
“I think it’s important to understand that it’s two very different halves," Bradley said. "Whenever you start a game, things need to be sorted out on the field. Often times, there’s a period of time when you just need to play through things and then the game starts to open up and you can take advantage. I think we understood that. We understood how we needed to push the game but do it in an intelligent way. It’s a hot day. It’s humid. So, you can’t push and get stretched all over the place. It can’t be one guy at a time. We talked about those things. Because the whole flow of the game changed at halftime, it worked well that we were able drop Clint Dempsey off to one side and find him so that he could get on the ball and be a real threat. The one thing I would stay about the first half is that we had some moments when there were advantages there and we weren’t sharp enough. If some of those plays were better, then maybe we have a different halftime talk.”
— GAME REPORT —
Match: United States vs. Turkey
Date: May 29, 2010
Competition: International Friendly
Venue: Lincoln Financial Field; Philadelphia, Pa.
Kickoff: 2 p.m. ET
Attendance: 55,407
Weather: Hot, humid – 77 degrees
Scoring Summary: 1 2 F
USA 0 2 2
TUR 1 0 1
TUR – Arda Turan (Colin Kazim-Richards) 27th minute
USA – Jozy Altidore (Landon Donovan) 58
USA – Clint Dempsey (Landon Donovan) 75
Lineups: USA: 1-Tim Howard; 2-Jonathan Spector (6-Steve Cherundolo, 46), 15-Jay Demerit, 21-Clarence Goodson (5-Oguchi Onyewu, 46), 3-Carlos Bocanegra (Capt.) (12-Jonathan Bornstein, 75); 10-Landon Donovan, 4-Michael Bradley, 13-Ricardo Clark (26-José Torres, 46), 16-Benny Feilhaber (27-Robbie Findley, 46); 8-Clint Dempsey, 17-Jozy Altidore (22-Stuart Holden, 81)
Subs not used: 7-DaMarcus Beasley, 18-Brad Guzan, 19-Maurice Edu, 23-Marcus Hahnemann, 29-Edson Buddle, 30-Herculez Gomez
Head Coach: Bob Bradley
TUR: 1-Volkan Demirel; 2-Servet Cetin, 4-Gokhan Zan, 13-Caglar Birinci, 5-Emre Belozoglu (Capt.), 6-Hamit Altintop (9-Semih Senturk, 73), 14-Arda Turan (28-Ozan Ipek, 90), 17-Selcuk Inan (15-Mehmet Topal, 52) 25-Sabri Sarioglu, 10-Tuncay Sanli (8-Nihat Kahvechi, 77), 18-Colin Kazim-Richards (16-Sercan Yildirim, 59)
Subs not used: 12-Onur Recep Kivrak, 19-Ibrahim Toraman, 20-Nuri Sahin, 21-Halil Altintop, 24-Emre Gungor, 31-Ismail Koybasi
Head Coach: Guus Hiddink
Stats Summary: USA / TUR
Shots: 10 / 10
Shots on Goal: 2 / 4
Saves: 3 / 0
Corner Kicks: 7 / 3
Fouls: 5 / 13
Offside: 1 / 1
Misconduct Summary: USA – Ricardo Clark (caution) 42nd minute
TUR – Mehmet Topal (caution) 56
TUR – Gokhan Zan (caution) 92
Officials:
Referee: Silviu Petrescu (Canada)
Assistant Referee 1: Joe Fletcher (Canada)
Assistant Referee 2: David Belleau (Canada)
Fourth Official: Mark Geiger (USA)
