{"id":9616,"date":"2017-09-05T19:53:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T23:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonsoccer.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=9616"},"modified":"2017-09-07T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T17:54:09","slug":"usmnt-world-cup-bobby-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/2017\/09\/05\/usmnt-world-cup-bobby-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Wood Saves USMNT World Cup Hopes In Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>San Pedro Sula, Honduras (September 5, 2017)<\/strong> &#8211; After the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsoccer.com\/category\/international\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USMNT<\/a>&#8216;s lack of urgency in a 2-0 loss to Costa Rica, they came out flat-footed in Honduras. Luckily, Bobby Wood came off the bench and salvaged a point in Honduras for the Stars and Stripes.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Bobby Wood Saves USMNT World Cup Hopes In Honduras<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The USMNT entered the day knowing a loss in Honduras could put them in serious trouble in terms of World Cup Qualifying, and for 85 minutes it seemed like they had earned that reality. Down 1-0 to Honduras, in the dying minutes of a hot, humid match down in a hostile Central American environment, a moment of magic, combined with the extra urgency and hustle necessary, gave the US the goal they needed.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half, it was all Honduras. In the 23rd minute, Romell Quioto was played in behind the backline, where he did well to get past Omar Gonzalez, and curl his shot in off the far post to give Honduras a deserved 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Kellyn Acosta lined up a free kick from about 23 yards out, and rifled it off the crossbar. Matt Besler made a weird flying scissor kick to get the ball back into the six yard box. A flick header from Dempsey kept it alive, and then Bobby Wood took that header off his chest, controlled, and slotted it home. The 1-1 draw and result puts the USMNT on nine points, and firmly ahead of Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, the USMNT will host Panama on October 6th, and then travel to Trinidad &amp; Tobagao for their final two CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying matches. Honduras clearly have the tougher two-match stretch. They have to travel to Costa Rica, and then face Mexico in their final two matches. If the USMNT can win both, they will likely avoid the intercontinental playoff with the fifth placed team from Asia and qualify outright for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby Wood saved the USMNT with a goal at the death. The 85th minute strike will slightly gloss over a listless 85 minutes for the Yanks in Honduras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1054],"tags":[1057,156,314,129,161,126,206],"class_list":["post-9616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fifa-tournament","category-usmnt","tag-2018-fifa-world-cup","tag-bobby-wood","tag-clint-dempsey","tag-fifa","tag-matt-besler","tag-usmnt","tag-world-cup-qualifying"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}