Weekend Recap: Cheers and Tears

A quick recap of a few of the games from the weekend:

Saturday

US 1-1 Canada, US wins 6-5 on PKs

A recap of this game is here. A late extra-time US goal by Carli Lloyd, followed by an even later extra-time Canada goal by Melissa Tancredi. After seven rounds of penalties, the US won, 6-5. And the US women are the CONCACAF champs!

KC Wizards 0 – 0 Houston Dynamo

Oh! Joy! a nil-nil draw! I didn’t catch the game, so I’ll turn it over to Travis at MLS Offside for a recap:

A bit of a dull game, I can’t say too much because I haven’t found any highlights. From what I’ve read it was a fair result as both teams had their chances and neither could finish. Considering KC conceded three goals three days before, good to grab a clean sheet. The same could be said about the Dynamo who are missing starting keeper Pat Onstad.

PSV Eindhoven 1-1 FC Twente

PSV Eindhoven needed a win to clinch the title. Didn’t happen. Alternatively, they could have clinched it if second-place Ajax had failed to win. If you’ve read the “flaming toilet paper” post, you’ll know that that didn’t happen either. And so PSV has to wait another week, or until the Ajax match is rescheduled, before they can break out that champagne.

PSG 2-3 Nice

Paris St. Germain continued its deathmarch with a late collapse. A win could have pulled them out of relegation risk, and it looked like it was going to happen. They were leading 2-1 in the 85th minute… And then they allowed in two (count ‘em, two) goals. Ouch. The clock is ticking on their dreams of remaining in Ligue 1.

Arsenal 1-2 Manchester United

I love Arsenal. This one breaks my heart. It wasn’t so long ago that their dreams of a quadruple didn’t look that farfetched. Now they’ve got nothing to show for the season. This was a must-win game for them, and in the first half that I saw, they were almost completely dominant. (This was seriously one of the best-played, most exciting halves I’ve seen in ages.) But ManU came from behind and took all three points.

From Goal.com:

Arsenal took the lead against Chelsea a few weeks ago and blew it. They went ahead against Liverpool earlier this week and blew it. And on form, they took the lead against Manchester United at Old Trafford and hit the self destruct button.

Ouch. Just…ouch.

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