Tuesday, May 26, 2020

On this day in 2012, Donovan's third hat-trick

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‪🇺🇸 #USMNT‬ 5-1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland
‪📍 ‬Jacksonville
‪👔 ‬Klinsmann
‪📋 ‬Friendly

The first match in over four months saw the biggest margin of victory for the year.

3'
Landon Donovan scores the first of third international hat-trick.

11'
The lead doubles a handful of minutes later with this great strike from Michael Bradley. Donovan finds Jermaine Jones in the middle of the field and he lays the ball into the path of Bradley. He hits it off the bounce and finds the top corner.

This was Bradley's 10th international goal.

60'
Donovan snags his second with this nice combination. A give-go between Jones and Bradley sets up Jones for the cross. He finds Donovan with plenty of room to shoot.

65'
With this goal, Donovan became the first USMNT player to record three hat-tricks in a career. His third came when Bradley played the direct pass into Donovan's path streaking into the box.

70'
Jones caps the night with this header. Jones starts the break with a drive with the ball and a pass to Herculez Gomez, who laid it off to Donovan. Donovan returns the favor with this cross to the open Jones.

Scorers: Landon Donovan (unassisted) 3′ (Jermaine Jones) 60′ (Michael Bradley) 65′, Michael Bradley (Jermaine Jones) 11′, Jermaine Jones (Landon Donovan) 70′ — Geoff Cameron (OG) 15′

USA: 1-Tim Howard (12-Brad Guzan, 71′); 6-Steve Cherundolo, 20-Geoff Cameron, 3-Carlos Bocanegra (Capt.) (5-Oguchi Onyewu, 63′), 23-Fabian Johnson (15-Edgar Castillo, 73′); 7-Maurice Edu (14-Kyle Beckerman, 64′), 4-Michael Bradley, 13-Jermaine Jones; 10-Landon Donovan, 18-Terrence Boyd (9-Herculez Gomez, 64′), 16-Jose Torres (11-Joe Corona, 68′)

Subs not used: 19-Chris Wondolowski

Head Coach: Jurgen Klinsmann

SCO: 1-Allan McGregor; 2-Phil Bardsley (14-Russell Martin, 59′), 3-Charlie Mulgrew (17-Lee Wallace, 68′), 4-Andy Webster (15-Christophe Berra, 82′), 5-Gary Caldwell, 6-James McArthur (16-Steven Whittaker, 59′), 7-Matt Phillips, 8-Scott Brown, 9-Kenny Miller, 10-Barry Bannan (18-Don Cowie, 51′), 11-Shaun Maloney (20-Craig Mackail-Smith, 83′)

Subs not used: 12-Craig Gordon, 13-Johnny Russell,19-Craig Bryson, 21-Matt Gilks

Head coach: Craig Levein

Referee: Elmer Bonilla (SLV)

Cards: Carlos Bocanegra [Y 28′]

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