PHILADELPHIA — Landon Donovan set up second-half goals by Jozy Altidore and Clint Dempsey, leading the United States over Turkey 2-1 on Saturday in the Americans’ last exhibition before leaving today for South Africa and the World Cup.
“We’re going to be as good as we want to be,” Donovan said. “And if we play the way we’re capable of playing, we can beat a lot of teams in the world.”
Arda Turan put the Turks ahead in the 27th minute on a counterattack after right back Jonathan Spector was dispossessed upfield.
Altidore tied the score in the 58th minute, and Dempsey put the U.S. ahead in the 75th before 55,407 at Lincoln Financial Field.
The Americans meet Australia in a last friendly June 5, one week before their World Cup opener against England.
“I think we accomplished everything that we would have wanted here,” U.S. coach Bob Bradley said.
• Germany cruised to a 3-0 win over host Hungary. Lukas Podol- ski, Mario Gomez and Cacau scored.
• Spain defender Carlos Marchena set a record of 50 straight games without defeat in Spain’s 3-2 victory over Saudi Arabia in Innsbruck, Austria. Marchena overtook Brazil great Garrincha, who was unbeaten in 49 consecutive matches from 1955-66.
• Also in Austria, Shane Smeltz scored in the first half to give New Zealand a 1-0 win over Serbia. And midfielder Eyong Enoh scored in the 83rd minute to give Cameroon a 1-1 draw with Slovakia.
• A header by midfielder Gavin McCallum in injury time gave Canada a 1-1 draw against host Venezuela. Angel Chourio scored for Venezuela.
Unseeded Irish in lacrosse final
BALTIMORE — Notre Dame earned a berth in the NCAA men’s lacrosse title game for the first time, defeating Cornell 12-7.
The Fighting Irish (10-6), the first unseeded team since Massachusetts in 2006 to earn a spot in the championship game, will play Duke (15-4) on Monday for the title. The Blue Devils beat No. 1 Virginia 14-3.
Footnotes.
Garrett Wittels used a headfirst slide to keep his hitting streak alive at 53 games and helped to extend Florida International’s season. Wittels is five away from Robin Ventura‘s NCAA Division I record. FIU defeated Florida Atlantic 11-9 in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and advanced to the title game today against Troy, which beat Arkansas State 12-8.
• Johann Tschopp won the 20th and penultimate stage of the Giro d’Italia, while Ivan Basso extended his overall lead by 24 seconds to 1 minute, 15 seconds.
• Vitali Klitschko (40-2, 38 KOs) knocked out Albert Sosnowski (45-3-1) in the 10th round to retain his version of the heavyweight title in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
• In the WNBA, Sylvia Fowles scored 13 of her 18 points in the second half and the Chicago Sky beat the host Minnesota Lynx 73-58. . . . The Tulsa Shock earned its first victory in the team’s new home with a 79-74 win over the Indiana Fever at the BOK Center.
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