USMNT’s Tyler Adams hails ‘mentality’ after Gold Cup display as ‘interesting’ World Cup squad decisions loom

Tyler Adams has praised the “mentality” of the players who stepped in for the Gold Cup and noted that they showed a level of hunger and fighting that the Bournemouth midfielder had found in earlier camps.

Without stars as Christian PulisicAntonee Robinson and Disoting captainAnd startled by a disastrous display in Concacaf Nations League, the USMNT gathered impressively in this summer’s Gold Cup and reached the final against Mexico on Sunday to fall into a 2-1 defeat. Adams believes that many had not even expected that from Mauricio Pochettino’s team, one that was startled on the eve of the tournament by friendly defeats to Turkey and Switzerland.

The omens seem unpunished for the US, who had enough to prove after Adams themselves had recognized that “it seems like we don’t care” after losing Panama and Canada in the Nations League. Three months later it is for the midfielder of Bournemouth that the mentality has shifted.

“From the inside I thought it was really good,” said Adams on CBS Sports, “called what you want.

Thinking about the pre-tournament-friendly losses, he added: “I think it was important that the message was clear that we trusted the process that we had. Not many boys were shaking, every person was aimed at the task that was obvious.

“You know, the quality won’t always be there. I’m going to play every game at my best? I’m going to try it, but it’s not always going to happen. At the absolute minimum I have to run around, I have to fight, I have to kick, fulfill people, just people, exactly what it takes to try to win games.

“Je zou die mentaliteit kunnen zien. Het was een nieuwe ervaring voor veel jongens, maar ze hebben het omarmd. Je gaat naar St. Louis om Guatemala te spelen, je verwacht niet 25.000 Guatemalanen in de tribunes te zien. Dat was wat het was, we omarmen het, we vechten, we vechten, we concurreren en we proberen te maken en we proberen te maken en we proberen het te maken en we proberen te maken en we proberen te maken en we proberen te maken en We try to make and we try to make and we try to make it and we are very up to that front. ”

Although Adams may not have had the outbreak of performances by Malik Tillman or Matt FreeseThe Gold Cup turned out to be an extremely successful endeavor for the 26-year-old in terms of minutes. Are equipped for the opener and only play as a replacement in victory Saudi -Arabia. From that moment on, however, Adams started every match, although it did not complete the entire game in one of them.

Adams had entered the Gold Cup after he had made the most competition matches in his career since he had left MLS, and played 28 Premier League matches in the All-Action Bournemouth side of Andoni Iraola. The midfielder struggled in during his time England And admitted that he was struggling to play at his best this summer. Adams is now on vacation, due to return to Bournemouth after a three -week break.

“This was the first time that I played so many minutes in a season in a long, long time,” said Adams. “To be honest with you, I was happy that I could even endure the tournament.

“My body was, you know, prepared, but not necessarily prepared, if you know what I mean. From a mental perspective, it was for the first time to come through the entire Premier League campaign that I was really, very proud of. Was my body in a position to play at the highest level Gold Cup? No chance.

“I know that I have to be there and keep trying to support these guys and also give myself a chance to try to cement myself in this national team and leave a legacy behind. So you know, it was not perfect every game, I knew it would not be perfect. It was about it to compete at the highest level I knew I knew I could be, and just support.”

The USMNT will meet again in September, their last competitive competitions before the World Cup of next summer now in the past. Friendly matches against Japan And South Korea will, believes Adams, will offer an important test for the star players who return to Pochettino’s team.

“That will be some tough games,” he said. “You know, of course we had the opportunity to play Japan for the last World Cup, and we were absolutely killed [losing 2-0 in Germany]. So I hope that the next window is not.

“We go inside with a bit of a different mentality. I think this was a great opportunity to test the depth of the team. Many guys who get opportunities, who knows that if they still had opportunities or so fast. They played their role.

“There will be a number of decisions to take in every position. You are going to bring people back to the team, of course, who were not in the camp that are important players and have helped put the blueprint of the way we want to play and how we are going to play. It will be interesting.”