USA vs. Spain Game Notes

It's about 6 hours to kick-off, here is the latest on the Yanks ...

Jonathon Spector is out 3-6 months will a hip injury that will require surgery.

U.S. Roster by position:

GOALKEEPERS (3): Dominic Cervi (out of contract), Brad Guzan (Chivas USA), Tim Howard (Everton FC)

MIDFIELDERS (6): Freddy Adu (SL Benfica), DaMarcus Beasley (Glasgow Rangers), Michael Bradley (SC Heerenveen), Maurice Edu (Toronto FC), Eddie Lewis (Derby County), Pablo Mastroeni (Colorado Rapids)  

FORWARDS (4): Clint Dempsey (Fulham FC), Nate Jaqua (out of contract), Eddie Johnson (Fulham FC), Josh Wolff (out of contract)

USA vs. Spain Facts:

- The U.S. has played Spain just twice in its history, and holds an 0-2-0 record against the country from the Iberian Peninsula.

- The first meeting between the two countries came in the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, with the U.S. going down 3-1 to the eventual fourth place finishers. The U.S. rebounded from the loss, and four days later would go on to beat England 1-0 in Belo Horizonte.

- Following Landon Donovan's withdrawal from the lineup against England, Ricardo Clark remains the only U.S. player to have appeared in all four U.S. games this year, though with Clark not on the squad against Spain, his streak of appearances will end after Wednesday.

- U.S. MNT Assistant Mike Sorber is a former member of the U.S. National Team who made 67 appearances for his country, and played the last time the U.S. traveled to Spain, lining up in Valladolid on March 11, 1992.

Spain Euro 2008 Roster by Position:

GOALKEEPERS (3): Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Pepe Reina (Liverpool), Andres Palop (Sevilla)  

DEFENDERS (8): Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Joan Capdevila (Villarreal), Raul Albiol (Valencia), Carles Puyol (Barcelona), Carlos Marchena (Valencia), Fernando Navarro (Real Mallorca), Alvaro Arbeloa (Liverpool), Juanito (Real Betis)

MIDFIELDERS (8): Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Xavi (Barcelona), David Silva (Valencia), Santi Cazorla (Villarreal), Xabi Alonso (Liverpool), Ruben de la Red (Getafe), Marcos Senna (Villarreal)

FORWARDS (4): David Villa (Valencia), Daniel Guiza (Real Mallorca), Sergio Garcia (Real Zaragoza), Fernando Torres (Liverpool)

Spain's last time out

Spain enters tonights match coming off a 2-1 victory over Peru last Saturday.  Villa shed first blood for Spain by tapping a ball from Xavi into the onion bag in the 37th minute.  According to sources at ussoccer. com, Spain continued kept up an intensive offense and continued to pile on chances to scored deep into the late stages of the second half.  Peru dug in and put 11 men behind the ball.  Peru finally got on the board in the 73rd minute when substitute Hernan Rengifo capitalized on a mix up between Casillas and Marchena.  Casillas looked to be coming out to claim the ball, but Marchena opted to deal with the danger himself and his attempted clearance went straight to Rengifo, who sent a looping header back over the stranded Casillas and into the net.  with time running out left-back Capdevila latched onto Cesc Fabregas' cross to send a thunderous right-footed volley into the roof of the net for the winning goal.