STARTERS

Nick Rimando: Rimando wasn’t terribly busy throughout the night, though he did make the occasional save as well as a few catches in traffic. His distribution was curiously erratic, though, including one shank that nearly led to an Andy Najar goal. On Maynor Figueroa’s late equalizer, there was very little he could do. Rating: 5.5

Timothy Chandler: Much like a standard Jon Arnold podcast performance, Chandler was steady but unexceptional. In a sense, this represents progress for the German-American, as he often mixes moments of attacking brilliance with thickheaded mistakes at the back. Tonight, he didn’t get much going offensively—did anyone, though?—but he made up for it with solid defensive work, especially on an impressive 47th-minute tackle on Romell Quioto, who had exploited the space left by an out-of-position Jermaine Jones. Rating: 6

Jermaine Jones: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the full Jermaine Jones Experience! If you thought you’d been getting everything Jones had to offer over the past four years, think again. The U.S.’s most erratic regular (and also one of its most talented) is now playing in the one position where mistakes are least acceptable… And to be fair, the early returns were pretty good.

His U.S. debut as a center back was littered with superb recovering tackles, which caught the eye but may raise a few questions about his positioning. All told, a promising enough beginning of yet another Jurgen Klinsmann position experiment. Rating: 6

Matt Besler: Besler’s performances for Sporting K.C. seem to have dipped a bit since the World Cup, but proudly donning the U.S.’s golf shirt once again, he looked typically excellent. His perfect positioning was a nice antidote to Jones’ wandering. Rating: 6.5

Greg Garza: Garza continues to look the part in a U.S. shirt, both as a soccer player and as a dude you don’t want to mess with if a mini-brawl breaks out. With Alejandro Bedoya providing his standard defensive cover, Garza bombed forward at will and had a few nice attacking moments, including a fizzing half volley that didn’t miss the frame by that much. Several of the good folks amongst the ASN reader community have been pining for Garza for a while, and it’s easy to see why. His step up from Liga MX to the international level has been rather seamless. Rating: 6.5

Alejandro Bedoya: These Bedoya ratings are becoming very easy to write, as the FC Nantes man is about as consistent as they come. He delivered a perfect microcosm of his game with a mid-second half lung-busting recovery run to deny an advancing Najar. This rating could have been even higher had he connected with Clint Dempsey after a fine run early in the first half, but his squared pass was met by an outstretched Honduran defender. Rating: 6.5

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Mix Diskerud: It was hard to avoid the impression that Diskerud was playing very specifically to appease Klinsmann. Not that that’s an entirely bad thing, but there was a marked presence of the type of crunching tackles (and attempted tackles) that we’ve hardly ever seen from Diskerud. From a slightly deeper midfield position, Diskerud failed to make anything close to the huge offensive impact he made against Ecuador on Friday. Rating: 6

Michael Bradley: Bradley looked sharp early on, and never more so than on his gorgeous chipped assist to Jozy Altidore early in the first half. If you, like Taylor Twellman, thought the entire sequence was eerily similar to Bradley’s assist to Altidore against Nigeria back in June, that’s because the entire sequence was eerily similar. See for yourself. It was the type of ball we’ve come to know and love from Bradley, and seeing it again gave an even firmer reminder of just how good he can be when playing slightly deeper. Why Klinsmann continues to insist on playing him so high up the field—especially when more natural advanced midfielder Diskerud was also in the lineup—is guaranteed to be a topic of much discussion moving forward. Bradley tailed off a bit in the second half, but he was one of the best players on the field in the first half. Rating: 6.5

Graham Zusi: Zusi has been very consistent for the U.S. over the past year and a half, but Tuesday night was far from his finest hour. He lost the ball a few too many times and also botched a decent opportunity from an excellent Garza cross, fumbling the ball to a Honduras defender rather than getting a shot or pass away. Rating: 4.5

Clint Dempsey: Dempsey delivered a host of beautiful flicks and touches in a lively first-half performance, and on another day he could have easily had two goals—he just needed slightly better service first from Altidore then Bedoya. But his performance dipped sharply in the second half (much like the rest of the team’s), and thus it ended up being a relatively quiet night for Dempsey overall. Rating: 6

Jozy Altidore: Well, two of the last three chipped passes Bradley has played to Altidore in the left channel have resulted in impressive goals—the other resulted in Altidore’s brutal World Cup hamstring injury. Regardless, it was great to see the big striker back on the score sheet, and with an impressive run and finish no less. He actually didn’t distribute or hold the ball up as well as he did on Friday against Ecuador, but it’s hard to be too critical on a night when he scored a great goal. Rating: 6.5

SUBSTITUTES

Bobby Wood: Wood looked lively for the second straight game, but again he didn’t produce too much end product. Perhaps this is to be expected from a player who is just 21 and earning his third cap. The Flyin’ Hawaiian’s* future looks bright, but he’s not quite there yet. All in all, Klinsmann should be fairly pleased with Wood’s efforts over the last two games.
*In the comments section, please let me know if we can make this a thing or not. Rating: 5.5

DeAndre Yedlin: Yedlin has been consistently excellent in his brief national team career, but tonight may have been his “worst” performance in a U.S. shirt. That doesn’t even mean he played particularly badly, just that he wasn’t up to his own high standards. He defended manfully when called upon, but he failed to make anywhere near the attacking influence we saw on Friday or in Brazil. Rating: 5.5

Tim Ream: Most of Honduras’s attacks in the last 30 minutes came down the right side of the field, so Ream wasn’t too busy in his late cameo at left center back. With Jones now in the center back pool, it’s somewhat hard to see Ream getting consistent games over Omar Gonzalez, Geoff Cameron, Jones, or Besler, but at least he didn’t shoot himself in the foot tonight or against Ecuador. Rating: 6

Alredo Morales: [Insert write-up from previous two games]. In seriousness, Morales delivered a third straight cameo marked by dependable shielding of the defense. He seems to have taken to this late game sub role, and he may keep it for quite some time. Rating: 6

Joe Corona: In Corona’s 12 minutes (plus stoppage time), he didn’t see enough of the ball to warrant a rating. Rating: Incomplete

Miguel Ibarra: Ibarra came on when the game was all but over. Still, what a thrill it must have been to get a U.S. cap as a Minnesota United (!!) player. Rating: Incomplete

THE COACH

Jurgen Klinsmann: Honduras at home with most of your best players? No matter how far away the Gold Cup is, we’d still like to see a win here. Worse still, the second half performance was awful, and the draw was a fair result. Rating: 5

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