He *barely* missed that goal off the crossbar... I don't know if you can really call that choking. He only had one other real opportunity, but missed it way high. He also set Donovan's goal up... so I wouldn't call it a complete loss for him. He didn't play to his potential, but I didn't think he played horribly though.
While Bradley scored the goal off the corner, and nearly put another one in... he was absolutely horrendous on defense... he got beaten on at least two of the Mexico goals. Bocanegra seemed way off, he kept getting beaten by Mexico's forwards and seemed to always be at least a step behind. I think the biggest factor in the match though was the injury to Cherundolo... Lichaj seemed lost after he got switched from left to right back, and that just further hurt our already lagging defense. Then they brought Bornstein on and he made the other defenders look like they were playing out of their minds with how horrible he was.
Donovan seemed to be way too timid after picking up the yellow (which was a bullshit call I might add), and that seemed to hurt us a lot.
Honestly, our best player was Adu... who really seems to finally be coming into his own after all of the fanfare when he burst on the scene at 14. He's great with the ball and can make a lot of people miss... he need to learn to pass when he's got two guys on him though, I think we had a better scoring chance when he shot it early midway through the first half if he had passed to I think it was Donovan that seemed to be open.
All in all though, it was just a piss poor effort. We couldn't match Mexico's speed, aggressiveness, and intensity. Dos Santos was spectacular, and there wasn't anything our defenders could do to stop him for whatever reason. Bradley put together an absolutely horrible strategy for the game, and it's way past time that he get fired.
It was a pretty bullshit call that gave Marta a penalty and got Buehler ejected. Hell, Brazil's goal in OT was crap as well, since the Brazilian that made the cross to Marta was offsides when she originally received it. 
