Eddie Johnson scored his sixth goal in four games on a header and Eddie Lewis struck from long-range to give the USA a 2-1 win over Trinidad & Tobago Wednesday in the opening game of the Hexagonal, the CONCACAFÆs final round of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup.
The hosts scored with time running out when Angus EveÆs crisp pass across the goalmouth was batted into the U.S. net by U.S. keeper Kasey Keller.
Feb. 9 in Port of Spain, Trinidad
Trinidad & Tobago 1 USA 2
Goals: Eve 89; Johnson 30, Lewis 54.
Trinidad & Tobago — Hislop, Rojas, Andrews, Sancho, Fitzpatrick (Glenn, 71), Rougier (Eve, 46), Edwards (Theobald, 74), Jones, John, Pierre, Yorke.
USA — Keller, Cherundolo, Gibbs, Pope, Bocanegra, Beasley, Mastroeni Dempsey, 66), Donovan, Lewis (Albright, 82), Johnson (Berhalter, 87), McBride.
Att.: 16,000
Referee: Benito Archundia (Mexico)