In a match they were expected to lose badly, the Americans gave the highly-favored French a stiff test in their final World Cup warm-up
It was supposed to be bloodbath, the kind of embarrassing result you come to expect in a matchup of teams a world apart in the talent department. The U.S. national team's squad of youngsters probably had a combined transfer value less than the individual price tags of half of France's starters, but on Saturday the USMNT came together and delivered the kind of gutsy defensive team performance we used to take for granted from the United States.