The U.S. finished the Copa America Centenario on Saturday the same way it started the tournament three weeks ago: losing to Colombia.
But if the result didn’t change, just about everything else did. Where the U.S. appeared passive and overwhelmed in the Centenario opener, in Saturday’s third-place game it played aggressively and with passionate. Where Colombia dominated for long swaths of the first game, on Saturday it was the U.S. which controlled the tempo.
And for Coach Juergen Klinsmann that marks progress, but not success, for a team that will end its tournament with consecutive losses in which it did not score a goal.