No one needs a recap of the game from me, so that's not what this is; instead, I just wanted to hit on a couple of things (including USA-Sweden) from the weekend.

I mentioned that all I really cared about from the USA-Sweden game was a bit of magic from Sacha and something good from Cooper or Davies. We certainly got the magic from Sacha, but Cooper and Davies failed to produce. Brian Ching played very well, and I'm starting to turn the corner on him a bit. Ching's not flashy, and his age is a strike against him, but he consistenly does good things on the pitch that helps his team win. The play he made to set up Sacha for the last goal was very nice.

Speaking of Sacha, the subject of his potential transfer to Celtic is big news. The piece places Celtic among several other suitors, and indicates that the move may not be as inevitbale as all of the press (and Sacha's performance on Saturday) would seem to make it. In fact, Sacha's hat trick is already being mentioned as a reason the transfer won't go through. The feeling appears to be that Sacha's performance will lead MLS to up the asking price for the midfielder, putting him out of Celtic's range. This story (which says that Sacha is a Serbian immigrant: um, no) reports the current offer at just under 2 million pounds (as of today, that's about $2.8 million; there is no chance MLS and Chivas lets Sacha go for that little).

It appears that Kljestan may be the guy that we all expected Freddy to become for 2010; I just hope, if he does move to Scotland, that Sacha gets playing time. It would be a disaster if he ends up wasting away on the bench like Freddy has to this point.