Getty Images TAMPA, Fla. – Landon Donovan takes penalty kicks for the national team, right? Always has – or at least since about 1986. Or maybe it just seems that way.
So when he drove into the 18 before the break Friday, only to be scythed down, surely he’s grabbing the ball, right?
So, why did Clint Dempsey do the burying from 12 yards? Manager Jurgen Klinsmann had a pretty funny answer:
“I have nothing to do with that. They are old enough to figure that out on the field.”
Being a little more contemplative, Klinsmann then got more to the point. He talked about Dempsey still not being quite Dempsey, still getting over the injury hump.
“He’s not there yet, he knows that and we know that too,” Klinsmann said. “And a goal for strikers always helps.”
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- ndnut - Jun 9, 2012 at 12:04 AM
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I think Landon wants #50 to come in normal play, not a cheap PK against a 5’9 goalie.
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- crayzeeguy - Jun 9, 2012 at 12:28 AM
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Landon looked a bit shaken up from being knocked around right before that too
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- danielofthedale - Jun 9, 2012 at 1:09 AM
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I think that Landon was really feeling that tackle and had just put in a good long burst of speed to break the defense, he was in shape to take the PK. Clint taking it make perfect sense.
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- Richard Farley - Jun 9, 2012 at 1:52 AM
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Sorry, term. I deleted his cut-and-paste comment. I don’t think there’s any reason we need to read that more than once.
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- term3186 - Jun 9, 2012 at 1:55 AM
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Go ahead and delete mine too. Now I just look silly. =(
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- Richard Farley - Jun 9, 2012 at 2:03 AM
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Look at us: talking about comments that don’t exit. We both look very silly.
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