Ghana Vs USA at Estadio das Dunas, Natal Monday June 16,2014
Managers
Jurgen Klinsmann(USA)
Kwesi Appiah(Ghana)
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head- Ghana have beaten the USA 2-1 at the last two World Cups (2006 group stage, 2010 second round).
- USA coach Jurgen Klinsmann scored twice against Ghana in a 6-1 friendly win by Germany in 1993.
- The USA have only kept two clean sheets in their last 23 World Cup matches.
- USA boss Jurgen Klinsmann played 17 games and scored 11 goals at the World Cup with Germany. This is his second World Cup as head coach, having led his home nation to third place in 2006.
- The USA are facing African opponents for the third straight match in World Cups (Ghana 2006 and 2010, Algeria 2010).
- They won a national record 12 straight matches in 2013.
- It's been 12 years since a USA striker scored at a World Cup (Brian McBride v Mexico).
- DaMarcus Beasley could become the first American to play in four World Cups.
- Four of Ghana's nine World Cup goals have come against the USA.
- Ghana scored more goals than any other team in the 2014 African World Cup qualifiers (25).
- No player scored more goals than Ghana's Asamoah Gyan in the 2014 African World Cup qualifiers (six). He has also scored four and assisted two of Ghana's nine World Cup goals in total, and netted the winner against USA in 2010.
- If Gyan scores twice, then he will surpass Cameroon's Roger Milla and become the top African goalscorer in the World Cup with six goals.
Goal Scorers
For USA -Clint Dempsey(1st minute) and John Brooks(86th minute)
For Ghana - Andre Ayew(82nd minute)
Clint Dempsey scored in the first minute.Dempsey's goal came on a low shot just 32 seconds into the match. Dempsey's goal made him the first U.S. player to score in 3 different World Cups and was the fastest ever scored by an American in the tournament.
Clint Dempsey has scored in 3 successive World Cups, with 2 of his 3 goals coming against Ghana.
Fastest World Cup goals
1)Hakan Sukur (2002): 11 seconds South Korea
2)Vaclav Masek (1962): 16 seconds Mexico
3)Ernst Lehner (1934): 25 seconds Austria
4)Bryan Robson (1982): 27 seconds France
5)Clint Dempsey (2014): 29 seconds Ghana
6)Bernard Lacombe (1978): 30 seconds Italy
7)Emile Veinante (1938): 35 seconds Belgium
8)Arne Nyberg (1938): 35 seconds Hungary
9)Florian Albert (1962): 50 seconds Bulgaria
10)Adalbert Desu (1930): 50 seconds Peru
2)Vaclav Masek (1962): 16 seconds Mexico
3)Ernst Lehner (1934): 25 seconds Austria
4)Bryan Robson (1982): 27 seconds France
5)Clint Dempsey (2014): 29 seconds Ghana
6)Bernard Lacombe (1978): 30 seconds Italy
7)Emile Veinante (1938): 35 seconds Belgium
8)Arne Nyberg (1938): 35 seconds Hungary
9)Florian Albert (1962): 50 seconds Bulgaria
10)Adalbert Desu (1930): 50 seconds Peru
US defender John Brooks (third from left) scores the winning goal during a Group G football match between Ghana and US at the Dunas Arena in Natal during the 2014 FIFA World Cup on Monday
The victory gave the Americans a measure of revenge against Ghana that knocked them out of the previous two World Cups and put the U.S. and Germany on top of the Group G, with Ghana and Portugal at the bottom.
US Vice President Joe Biden watching the American team take on Ghana on Monday
Earlier in the day, President Barack Obama 'tweeted' a video of himself giving some words of encouragment to the U.S. team.
'Go team USA,' the president says in the video. 'Show the world what we're made of.'
Squads
USA
Ghana
More
than 11 million U.S. viewers tuned in to watch the United States beat
Ghana during a World Cup soccer match on Monday, setting a new record
for soccer viewership on ESPN, according to Nielsen.
The
game was the highest-rated men's soccer match for the sports cable
network. The game also set a record at Univision, the Spanish-language
broadcast network, attracting 4.8 million people, which made it the
most-viewed U.S. World Cup match in the network's history.
While
record-setting for the individual networks, the 16million total
viewership is down from the 17.3 million who saw the first U.S. match in
the 2010 tournament, against England, which was shown on ABC and
Univision on a Saturday afternoon.
Squads
USA
- 01 Howard
- 23 Johnson
- 07 Beasley
- 15 Beckerman
- 20 Cameron
- 05 Besler (Brooks - 45' )
- 11 Bedoya (Zusi - 77' )
- 04 Bradley
- 08 Dempsey
- 17 Altidore (Jóhannsson - 23' )
- 13 Jones
Ghana
- 12 Larsen Kwarasey
- 04 Opare
- 20 Asamoah
- 11 Muntari Booked
- 21 Boye
- 19 Mensah
- 07 Atsu (Adomah - 78' )
- 17 Rabiu Booked (Essien - 71' )
- 03 Gyan
- 13 J.Ayew (Boateng - 59' )
- 10 Andrew Ayew
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