WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Concacaf Gold Cup tune-up that wasn’t really much of a Gold Cup tune-up—and for the USA, that’s a good thing—Gregg Berhalter suffered his first defeat at the helm as the Americans fell, 1-0, to Jamaica.
The U.S. was soft, tentative and disjointed and created almost nothing offensively. But with its Gold Cup run not set to begin for another 13 days, there’s little reason to panic. It’s almost impossible to imagine that the team Berhalter fielded Wednesday in the nation’s capital will resemble the one that’ll compete for the Concacaf crown, either in terms of performance or personnel.