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USMNT outplayed by Mexico in Gold Cup final; Spain the team to beat at Euro 2025?
USMNT outplayed by Mexico in Gold Cup final; Spain the team to beat at Euro 2025?
Hello and welcome to the start of another week, James Benge here to guide you through it (at least from a football perspective). We may be at the height of the summer, but football is not yet done with us. We have ladies -Club World Cup, a transfer window that warms up and a USMNT defeat in the Gold Cup final to chew. Let’s go in!
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🏆 CWC: Fluminense vs. Chelsea, 3 p.m. ➡️ Dazn
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🇺🇸 USMNT played out by Mexico in Gold Cup Final
The next time the national team of the American gentlemen plays a competitive game, it is in Sofi Stadium on 12 June 2026. Their home cup campaign, in the making for eight years, will be underway. Yikes. Life comes to you pretty quickly, isn’t it? From a moral perspective, it would certainly have been nice to end this cycle of meaningful games at a peak, but that was not the case. Despite a clear start covered by a fourth minute goal of Chris Richards, the US fell on a 2-1 defeat to Mexicowho added the Gold Cup to their Nations League Crown in a year, so that they have again confirmed at the top of the Concacaf pyramid.
Mauricio Pochettino could have few complaints about the result, Richards shot the first of only six shots that the US would save for the 16 of their visitors in Houston. Having said, he had one problem-a controversial call when Jorge Sanchez planted his hand on the ball, not the turf, in the 67th minute that Pochettino raged. Even by suggesting that it would have been called on the other side, this was not a game that they did enough to win.
After Raul Jimenez had drawn the level of Mexico, The tri All the Running made in nrg stage, surgery 12-5, 65 more fits in the opposition half then completed than their opponents 96 and 34 Penalty Box Touches register to 14. Edson Alvarez’s 77th minute Winner was in the corridor, and it would have been a case of extreme good fortu. As Charlie Davies noted on call it what you want, This was not a winning USA display.
- Davies: “In general this was a terrible performance. This was hard to see. They brought the fight, they got the early goal, we are all hyped, but they don’t connect afterwards.
There is of course a fairly significant mitigating factor here, the same that we will remember all summer long. This was nothing like the USMNT A team. No Christian Pulisic, Antonee Robinson, Folarin Balogun … We can continue to Wednesday. In such circumstances, the primary goal for Pochettino was certain to better understand the depths of his talent pool. In the course of the summer he got a clear sense of talent that could have a meaningful impact next summer. This has been the summer of Diego Luna, Malik Tillman and Matt Freese. They had done enough for Sunday to make you suspect that there will be at least one of them in the XI in Sofi Stadium.
It is perhaps somewhat suppressed by the disappointment of a defeat against a big rival, but there is momentum to build when the US stand against South Korea and Japan in September. As Pardep Cattry said, It has become clearer what should improve in this setup.
- Cattry: “The USMNT has succeeded in completing a sort of redemption arch at the Gold Cup, complicated as it can be. Pessimism is no longer the prevailing sentiment, but the responsibility is still on pochettino and company to get the balance … The fact that the usmnt is a better chance of realizing this group, but it is a better chance to realize this group, but it is a better chance to realize this group, but it is a better chance of realizing this group, but it is a better chance of realizing this group, but it is a better chance to realize this group – always needed. “
Of course, what the US wants from now on is more time, more serious competitive tests. Welcome to life as a World Cup host. It is the American party (and that of Canada and Mexico), and so of course they don’t have to earn their place there. The competitive games are over and they have finished on something of a down -not. It is hoped that the value of this summer comes from experiences instead of silverware.
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🇪🇺 While the Ladies warms up, can someone stop Spain?
Really, there is nothing better than an international international tournament of 16 teams. Gargantuan World Cups may give every nation the chance to dream through the qualification, but when we arrive the competition from the following summer, you can guarantee that the group phases will only feel like an almighty slog. Such problems at the European championships this summer, which are flying positively. The tournament did not start until Wednesday, but we have all our first side to the knockout phases, Norway won 2-1 above Finland and then saw their place confirming when Switzerland eliminated Iceland from the battle.
They could soon be accompanied by Spain, who hit five past Portugal on Thursday and will be strong favorites to overcome Belgium in Thun. On a six-game extraction streak, the world champions started this tournament on their devastating best, but they might go even better if they welcome Aitana Bonmati back to the XI, the balloon d’Or holder who has conquered an attack of viral meningitis in time for the journey to Switzerland. Because as impressive as Spain looks so far, they don’t seem to be considered obvious, at least according to Olga Carmona.
- Carmona: “We have to keep our feet on the ground, despite the great result recently. We can’t make the mistake of being reckless. We know that Belgium is a great team, we have played a lot against them and we know that they will make it very difficult for us, so we have to stay very alert, give it outside, and we want to win.”
What about the Rivals of Spain? Germany started impressively and hope to use Wednesday’s game against Denmark to adapt to life without injured captain Giulia Gwinn, who sustained a serious knee injury in the 2-0 win over Poland. In the meantime, Saturday’s battle between two of the other favorites decided on the way of France, their 2-1 victory, which means that England has an almighty test against the Netherlands to even be eligible for the quarterfinals. Sandy Baltimore was excellent for The blue, Elisa de Almeida no less effective on the opposite flank.
It may well be that the side of Laurent Bonadei are the dark horses that land at the bottom of the bracket, but it is suspected that this afternoon will start with nothing more than a robust memory of the quality of Spain. They are still the team to beat and thereby a long way.
🔗 Top stories
🇺🇸 usmnt -breakdown: So where is the USMNT at the end of this international season? Pardep Cattry assesses what can be learned from the Gold Cup.
❤️ Jimenez pays tribute to Jota: A moving moment in the Gold Cup final While Raul Jimenez fought to Diogo Jota, who died on Thursday with his brother in a car wreck. The two had spent a thoroughly successful season together at Wolves in 2018-19.
💷 Arsenal splashes the money: A busy weekend on the market for Arsenal. They have signed Martin Zubimendi for $ 76.5 million, a deal we love, and be Closure on sporty striker Viktor Gyokeres.
🤔 Alonso’s Line -Up Problems: Real Madrid is due to the semi -final of the Club World Cup, but Their setup should give Xabi Alonso all kinds of headaches.
🏥 Musiala suffers leg fracture: Terrible news of the quarterfinals of the club World Cup, Where Jamal Musiala suffered what Bayern then confirmed was a broken fibula.
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💵 Dear bets
- Club World Cup: Fluminense vs. Chelsea, Tuesday, 3 p.m.
💰 The choice: Chelsea to win to zero (+175) -The experience of the Club World Cup as a whole suggests that Disconnecting of Brazilian parties can come back to bite you, especially when they have acted just as obdued as Fluminense in switching out Inter and Al-Hilal. Yet the Tricolor The attack is a bit hot in terms of expected goals during this tournament and may find it difficult to break down a conservative, organized Chelsea.
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