Sports The united states men’s national team is on the brink.
Following a 2-1 loss to Panama in Copa The united states, the USMNT realistically needs a fetch to advance to the knockout stage, as a loss will seemingly quit its match. Can they soar reduction in opposition to Uruguay — which sits atop Community C at 2-0-0 — on July 1 (9 p.m. ET on FS1 and the FOX Sports app)?
On the most up-to-date model of “FOX Soccer Now,” outmoded USMNT goalkeeper Jimmy Conrad emphasised the importance of USA’s subsequent game.
“There is a number of chatter round our squad that we’re reasonably soft and that we designate no longer have a signature fetch yet,” Conrad said. “Now we have five wins in opposition to high-20 wins, four of those in opposition to Mexico, and so they, we would possibly perchance argue, are in a down-cycle, and the other one was as soon as in opposition to Iran. That was as soon as in the World Cup. Mountainous fetch, expansive important, got us into the Spherical of 16, nonetheless I designate no longer imagine Iran when I think high-20. So to have this second, okay, let’s uncover who we’re, what we’re about. We’re dealing with some adversity.
“Here’s this kind of massive game to the level the put Christian Pulisic said ‘we’ve got to play the game of our lives.’”
Juan Pablo Angel sees this match as a golden opportunity for the USMNT.
“I uncover it as a expansive opportunity for the US team. In the occasion that they are searching out for to ship an ethical assertion to each person accessible, they have to beat Uruguay, straightforward as that,” Angel said. “That is arguably the team that is taking half in the easiest football to this level on this opponents.”
As for the USMNT’s loss, forward Tim Weah was as soon as given a red flag in the 18th minute, giving them appropriate 10 gamers for the leisure of the game and partly helping Panama aid possession for the majority of the game.
Melissa Ortiz thinks that the lasting image of the game must play a position for the USMNT in opposition to Uruguay.
“They have to appropriate soar out of that one, let that one high-tail and fetch it no longer appropriate for the team, for the nation, nonetheless furthermore for his or her teammate who tousled, for Timothy Weah,” Ortiz said. “It be a brotherhood on the quit of the day, and when someone messes up, you proceed to aid one yet every other responsible and restful be sure that that you all play collectively and score the quit outcome to circulation forward.”
However, Uruguay has bulldozed the opponents in Community C. On the heels of beating Panama, 3-1, Uruguay dominated Bolivia, 5-0.
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