US 1 - 0 Guatemala

Clint Dempsey’s goal in the 26th minute was enough to give the Americans a 1-0 victory over Guatemala in the opening match for each side of the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup. It was an ugly, ugly game, with both teams playing very sloppy and somewhat dirty football. The ref was horrible, and missed several legit calls, and ended up sending Oguchi Onyewu off for a second bookable offense on a very questionable call.

In any event, that’s 3 points in the bag, and now the US will turn their attention to the match against T&T tomorrow afternoon. T&T lost their opening match to El Salvador 2-1 last night, so they’ll be desperate for points. The match will be shown live on Fox Soccer Channel at 5PM ET tomorrow afternoon.