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Copa consolation match offers USA more than just chance at revenge

The U.S. national team will be looking to erase the bad taste of Argentina's domination when it faces Colombia in Copa America third-place match.

When the majority of the U.S. national team's players walked out of NRG Stadium with their heads hung low after Tuesday's thoroughly lopsided 4-0 loss to Argentina, it was unclear just when the Americans would have a chance to save some face and remind us that this was actually a good Copa America for them before the No. 1 team in the world made them look like amateurs.

That chance, to some degree, will come on Saturday, when the U.