Uzmnt again amazed by Panama, such as the American Concacaf Nation of the League of the End ends

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Inglewood, California – for the second time in less than a year, Panama Stunned United States The men’s team plays in the tournament.

But unlike losing last summer of Los Canaleros In the first round of American Copa América, Thursday, loss in Concacaf League nation Semi -finals guarantees that Americans will not look for a competition title in which they won three times from 2021 to 2024.

“I’m very, very disappointed, because I think the way we approached the game and started the game was not the right way,” said USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino after a 1-0 defeat Cecilio WatermanA goal with one minute of stopping the second half. “We need to find a way to better compete.”

Here are three quick thoughts about the match.

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Game games

Off American traffic deep in its area, Waterman scored a hit in the fourth minute of the second half stop, beating Matt Turner with low cracking to a distant post.

“Not great,” Turner said. “We lose three duels in a row, and they find some space, and we are a step behind everywhere, and that’s a good ending. I’ll look at ourselves. I think we’ll all look at ourselves and see the better.”

The American players blamed their lack of urgency. This is a problem that the program regularly tormented from the 2022 World Cup, which then cost coach Gregg Berhalter his job after Copa Améric’s debacle.

“There is no lack of communication in what happened today,” said midfielder Tyler Adams. “We knew exactly what we had to do. We knew we had to be competitive. I don’t think we were as competitive as we needed to be.”

Turn

Now he controlled the play in the first half and had three golden opportunities to take over the lead. Two came just before a 20-minute mark. First Josh Sargent’s Defed Shot beat the Panaman Guardian Orlando mosquito But not post. Then Mosquera stopped her head head Weston McKennie from a precise cross of Tim Weah.

But Sargent thought he scored a goal later in the second half, only that the goal was excluded after it was determined that Weah was in an offside in the buildup. What was a pity because Sargent ended his opportunity with Aplom:

Has any of these opportunities entered – or one of two chances to replace Patrick Agyemang He had in the second half – the outcome could have been different. Adams had the opportunity to equalize on death, but he sent his efforts through Panama’s crossbar.

“I think if we score at all, they persecute the game,” said defender Chris Richards. “We left them in the game for too long.”

Key stature

The US enjoyed almost 70 percent of the ball and ended up more than twice as much passage from Panama (645 to 320), but they still couldn’t score a goal.

“We have control, we have possession, we have passes. But we didn’t use it,” Pochettino said. “These numbers mean that you can win the game, but you don’t win because it’s not like another sport … (in football) an opponent can have one hit on the target and achieve results.”

This exactly happened, because Waterman’s strike was a lonely Panaman shot at goal all night.

What follows for Panama?

Thomas Christiansen has progressed to Sunday’s final, where he will have the opportunity to win the CONCACAF title for the first time in the history of the program. Panama will play Mexico, who won Canada 2-0 later on Thursday in the second semifinal.

“Panama must be proud of what we have achieved tonight,” Christiansen said. “We will enjoy it for a few hours, and then we will focus on it.”

What follows for usmnt?

Although he is eliminated from the title claim, the Pochettin team still has another game this month before his players return to their clubs. The US and Canada will challenge the match in third place, which starts a few hours before the finals of Sunday at the Sofa Stadium.

No team wanted to be in that to be sure. At the same time, Americans and Canadians have become fierce rivals in recent years. Last September, Canada won the last match between the two sides, friendly, and they could add an incentive to win her southern neighbor again.

Last month Jesse Marsch, US Coach Reds, announced the news when he called the discourse of President Trump about making Canada 51. “Immensely and, honestly, offensive.”

“We’ll be excited about the American game,” Marsch said after his team lost to Mexico on Thursday.

Doug Mcintyre is a football writer for Fox Sports that covered United States Men’s and women’s national teams on the FIFA World Cup on five continents. Follow him on @Bydougmcintyre.

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