We give Alejandro Bedoya a fair amount of grief on this website. We are gathered here today, however, because on Saturday he was good. In fact, he was the best American player on the field against Nicaragua, which may or may not be saying something about a lot of other players on the team, but I digress. Bedoya was legitimately good on both sides of the ball in a must-win-by-three-goals scenario, and he deserves credit for it.
Typically, when you see Bedoya in the midfield, he’s there as someone who works hard and makes it hard for opposing midfields to move the ball around.