ENLARGE Clint Dempsey scored the opening goal Thursday in the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s 2-1 victory over Ecuador in the Copa America quarterfinal in Seattle. Photo: Otto Greule Jr./Getty ImagesThe U.S. men’s national team earned a spot in the semifinal of the Copa America Centenario with a raucous and rough 2-1 victory over Ecuador. The game took a strange turn in the 52nd minute when an already chippy match spun out of control. The ugliness started when Ecuador’s Antonio Valencia tripped up midfielder Alejandro Bedoya to earn his second yellow card. The U.S. will be without Bedoya and Wood, who have accumulated two yellow cards, and Jones, who has to serve a suspension for getting tossed from the game.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 17, 2016 03:58 UTC