Azteca will fall today

Arena couldn't do it. Sampson got the closest. Bora didn't need to. And today, neither does Bradley.

But after two consecutive cup finals in a summer made for American soccer, three points at the last impregnable fortress in the region in a World Cup qualifier will cement the United States' reputation as the undisputed force in CONCACAF.

It needn't happen today. But it can. And it will.