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| USA v Argentina: Copa América semi-final – live! | USA v Argentina: Copa América semi-final – live! |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| 1.45am BST | |
| 01:45 | |
| And now for a minor programming note. Guardian US is also liveblogging tonight’s match in Spanish for the polyglots out there. Feel free to join our Luis Miguel Echegaray over there! | |
| Related: USA v Argentina - ¡en vivo y en español! | |
| 1.41am BST | |
| 01:41 | |
| Tonight’s lineups are already generating discussion. Here’s a note from Daniel Stauss, via email. | |
| Messi, Higuain, Lavezzi, Dempsey, Wondolowski. one of these names is not like the others, one of these manners just doesn’t belong. At least Clint won’t be totally stranded up top, maybe Wondo can stumble around in front of Otamendi and distract him a little. | |
| 1.30am BST | |
| 01:30 | |
| The teams | |
| Here’s a look at tonight’s teams. USA players Bobby Wood and Alejandro Bedoya are suspended for yellow-card accumulation in addition to Jermaine Jones, who picked up a straight red in the quarter-final against Ecuador. | |
| United States | |
| XI: Guzan; Yedlin, Cameron, Brooks, Johnson; Zusi, Beckerman, Bradley, Zardes; Dempsey, Wondolowski | |
| Substitutes: Besler, Birnbaum, Nagbe, Howard, Orozco, Kitchen, Pulisic, Castillo, Horvath | |
| Argentina | |
| XI: Romero; Mercado, Otamendi, Funes Mori, Rojo; Augusto, Mascherano, Banega; Messi, Higuain, Lavezzi | |
| Substitutes: Roncaglia, Cuesta, Lamela, Kranevitter, Aguero, Biglia, Maidana, Guzman, Pastore, Andujar, Di Maria | |
| 1.25am BST | |
| 01:25 | |
| The teams | |
| Hello and welcome to tonight’s Copa América semi-final between the United States and Argentina. Kickoff is roughly 40 minutes away at Houston’s NRG Stadium and the sides have just taken the pitch for pre-match warmups. Argentina are clear favorites, but Jürgen Klinsmann’s men will no doubt be looking to stir up the echoes of 1995. | |
| Plenty more to come ahead of tonight’s match starting with the team information. Stand by. | |
| 10.03pm BST | 10.03pm BST |
| 22:03 | 22:03 |
| Bryan will be here shortly, in the meantime here’s Graham Parker on tonight’s game: | Bryan will be here shortly, in the meantime here’s Graham Parker on tonight’s game: |
| After USA beat Ecuador and Argentina swept past Venezuela, the two teams will meet in the Copa America semi-finals on Tuesday night, with Argentina firm favorites to advance to the final (and indeed win the whole tournament.) But what can Jürgen Klinsmann do to stop them? And just as importantly can they do anything to cause Argentina problems? Here are a few tactics that could lead to an upset over Lionel Messi and Co: | After USA beat Ecuador and Argentina swept past Venezuela, the two teams will meet in the Copa America semi-finals on Tuesday night, with Argentina firm favorites to advance to the final (and indeed win the whole tournament.) But what can Jürgen Klinsmann do to stop them? And just as importantly can they do anything to cause Argentina problems? Here are a few tactics that could lead to an upset over Lionel Messi and Co: |
| Related: How exactly do USA beat Argentina in the Copa América semi-final? | Related: How exactly do USA beat Argentina in the Copa América semi-final? |