By Chris Wright
I'm willing to bet your gut reaction to the news that Sergio Busquets got well and truly
knobbled in a challenge with Real Sociedad's Carlos Martinez during the home side's 2-1 win at the
Nou Camp last night was somewhere along the lines of 'what goes around, comes around' but that
doesn't make the deep laceration that the Barca midfielder suffered any less grotesque.
We've all made jokes about Sergio Busquets' habit of falling down and clutching his face for no
good reason, but this time it was his knee and he wasn't faking.
A mere seven minutes after entering Barcelona's 2-1 win over Real Sociedad in the 76th minute,
Busquets was accidentally stepped on by Carlos Martinez, opening up a deep gash under his right
knee.
Roberto Soldado struck twice in the final three minutes at the Mestalla to complete his
hat-trick and give Valencia a dramatic 4-3 victory over Racing Santander in their Primera Division
opener.
Soldado had put Los Che ahead in the first minute, but he put through his own net to level
things up six minutes later and Lautaro Acosta added a second goal for Racing in the 14th
minute.
The U.S. and Cuba game will be a rematch of the 2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship opener in
Tijuana, which the U.S. won 5-0. Let's take a look at the U.S. lineup and goal scorers from that
day:
Scoring Summary: 1 2 F
USA 3 2 5
CUB 0 0 0
USA – Stefan Jerome (Jack McInerney) 31st minute
USA – Jack McInerney (Luis Gil) 34
USA – Sebastian Lletget 40
USA – Jack McInerney (Luis Gil) 48
USA – Luis Gil (Jack McInerney) 63
Lineups:
USA: 1-Earl Edwards; 3-Tyler Polak, 6-Jared Watts, 2-Eriq Zavaleta, 4-Perry Kitchen; 8-Alex Shinksy
(15-Carlos Martinez, 64), 5-Marlon Duran, 20-Sebastian Lletget (13-Joseph Gyau, 70), 10-Luis Gil;
7-Stefan Jerome (19-Andrew Craven, 75), 9-Jack McInerney
Subs not used: 11-Dustin Corea, 14-Zachary Herold, 17-Juan Agudelo, 18-Spencer Richey,
Subs not available: Emilio Orozco, Nicholas Palodichuk
Head Coach: Wilmer Cabrera
