The last we checked in on the USMNT, the team was flubbing chances against Mexico while the manager was forgetting to make good substitutions. The result against an El Tri ‘B’ team was inevitable. A decidedly second choice USA squad did have some decent results in the Gold Cup, but also struggled. On one hand, that’s Concacaf and those are growing pains, on the other, it’s worth asking why the team wasn’t better.
Luckily, the US probably did enough in the game to nearly seal its next trip to the World Cup.