England, California – had a new feeling when the US national team moved to the pitch against Panama in the semi-finals of the Concacaf Nations League on Thursday. CNL champion returns to the tournament with a new coach in Mauricio Pochettino, a whipping of new tactics for the group to solve the problems caused by the lack of key players, especially on the wings. For all the new ideas – and there were many – there was a passionate feeling of death when the clock struck the Sophia, and really only a few minutes before the bullet ended.
In the only Panama kick, Seclio Waterman scored the only goal in the 94th minute to take a place in Sunday’s CNL final, making sure the only winner of the tournament would lose their first piece of silver since Pochettino took his job last autumn.
It was one of the easy games to say better. USMNT not only scrapped, they admitted in Panama from 12 to 3 than Pochettino that there are many things that went to the guests, but not the first open barrier to clean up – the edge of the competition.
“I think we have controlled the game, yes,” Pochettino said. “We have overcome the game, yes. We played in the opposite half, yes.
The coach of the coach has been inspired by the USMNT mentality for most of his youth, a step that could be interpreted once because his cards near his chest on the tactical ideas he could have implemented. On Thursday, however, the field that was given more attention was more similar to that of the team that has a timely raising responsibility for the 2026 World Cup on its own territory.
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“I think the first half, I think we have played very slowly, we were very comfortable on the pitch,” Pochettino said. “We didn’t do it show Aggression with the ball, and because the result is to show aggression with the ball. … The first half, I think, it was really painful. It was really painful vision.”
That was a feeling that his players agreed with, the first half was due to a tactical change in Panama they made in surprise.
“We had to put pressure on the men for men and make sure that we were doing our jobs” Defender. Team Remarkem He told his broadcasters after the game. “I think we fought a little in the first half to understand what the newspapers would be. They came out and changed a little. Again, it is up to us to understand what to do and work on it during the week.
Pochettino and his players also agreed that they were better in the second half. After the break, they took most of the shots and showed some of the biting that he was missing in the start of the game. It was almost eventually didn’t matter – the nature of Panama’s winning a game in which their total expected goals were 0.1, which means the result will feel mistakes, but the manager pointed out that the game of the game brought examples of the main weakness of USMNT.
“Look at the situation – organized, well. You dominate, yes,” Pochettino said. “Coor-V-2 in the middle of the pitch, but we lose the goal. We have no control. We were not aggressive in the Duel. We lose the Duel and then admit it.
The defeat is the third consecutive defeat to USMNT to Panama in the official competition, but only the latest defeat on a long-level long-level. It is a habit full of problems for a group of players called the Golden Generation of the United States, who went to the 2022 World Cup as one of the youngest squad there and really struggled to participate in Qatar more than two years ago.
Some of them have succeeded individually at the level of the clubs, but they are nothing more than a handful of the elites of the club, and as a group, they have failed to jail. The players have all been able to identify the lack of aggression, as Pochettino said, as their problem on Thursday. But when pressure is put on the root of the issue, the answers are difficult to get.
“It’s difficult to say” Christian Polisic He said the first three times the detailed phrase in six minutes, mixed with the depth of sighs while in a cloud of shock. “Their plan was very clear. They were supposed to sit a little lower and defend and really defend. You have to give them credit. I don’t know where you’re really crying.
Polisic admitted that he should watch the Tape game to have a real hand of what was wrong, a fair answer as it was related to the game in particular. The way he thought of the game was very different from the surprisingly surprisingly, it was very different from Roy Pochettino when he said what was wrong, which feels the opposite of a role in its species. The meeting was around Pochettino’s summit, claiming that USSMNT could be the best in the world in five to 10 years and he wanted to destroy Panama on the pitch, but the coach did not feel blind because of his incompetence. On the other hand, the police have been around the ups and downs of USMNT with their own eyes, and despite years of experience, he, like anyone else, appeared to be confused about why they follow the questions about the team’s rivalry.
Pochettino’s assessment confirms the US football team to find new eyes to lead the team into the 2026 World Cup, and there may be no time for a mortality bell to be liking for next year’s statement. The coach himself acknowledged that “time still remains” and painful harms can be valuable opportunities.
For anyone who has experience of watching this team, but, finally it is time to ask why this happens as much as it is – and if the ceiling that many predicted for this group is higher than it can be actually.