The US was killed from the Copa América with a 1-0 mishap to Uruguay on Monday night, a disaster that will expand stress on US Soccer to take out guide Gregg Berhalter before a World Cup on home soil in 2026.
Uruguay scored in the 66th second when Nicolás de la Cruz swung a free-kick into the crate. Matt Turner parried a header by Ronald Araújo, who got around protector Tim Ream, however, the return immediately tumbled to Mathías Olivera and he tapped the ball home.
Olivera discharged an impression of being offside on the key header yet the objective remained after a video study.
Three minutes before Uruguay scored, the US was ready to drive when Bruno Miranda tied the score for Bolivia against Panama in a game that began in the meantime. By and by, Panama kept winning 3-1, getting the resulting spot in Party C behind Uruguay.
Utilizing a course of action of players absolutely from European clubs, Berhalter and the US expected to show the social event had improved since their round-of-16 expulsion against the Netherlands at the 2022 World Cup. Considering everything, the US opened the continuous year’s Copa with a 2-0 win over inconspicuous Bolivia before being vexed 2-1 by Panama.
“Where have we come to start around 2022?” Clint Dempsey, the USMNT chief at the 2014 World Cup, said post-match on Fox. “You meet all essentials for the World Cup, move away from the get-together. Where have we advanced? We haven’t. This is our amazing age and it appears we’re squandering it.”
Berhalter was rehired in June 2023 and given a comprehension through the 2026 World Cup, which the US will co-have with Canada and Mexico. In any case, notwithstanding a game plan that included Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie, and Tyler Adams, the US neglected to endeavor to match their last Copa América appearance, when they lost to Argentina in the 2016 quarter-finals.
“We ought to have been improved,” Berhalter said after the game. “We’ll do a survey and sort out what turned out harshly and why it turned out seriously yet it’s a vacant inclination right now beyond a shadow of a doubt.”
Uruguay played without guide Marcelo Bielsa, who was suspended for sending his get-together out late for the last piece of their hidden two games. Diego Reyes and Pablo Quiroga were in control of Uruguay on a fragile at any rate drenched night in Kansas City.
Berhalter and the Americans comprehended their circumstance was essential – Pulisic at one point said they would have to play “the best round of our lives” to progress – and they were a social event with nothing to lose for by a long shot a large portion of the key half.
It was a game separated by certifiable play and rough calls.
Folarin Balogun, who had two focuses at present in the resistance, traversed the most incredibly horrible piece of two or three inconveniences. He was left calling for assist after a mishap with Uruguay goalkeeper Sergio Rochet, then, at that point, was left forging ahead with the field after Araújo’s test later in the half. Balogun for a long time expected to leave with a hip genuine issue with Ricardo Pepi taking his spot clear.
Uruguay lost Maximiliano Araújo before in the half after a surprising mishap with Ream close to the US objective. He ought to be dispensed with the field on a bunk, yet he had the decision to move his arms before heading up the segment.
In the disturbance was 32-year-old Peruvian ref Kevin Ortega, who made a development of unsafe calls.
The first came when Ortega started to take out a yellow card and stop play, then, at that point, permitted it to proceed – while right now holding the card – as Uruguay almost scored on an assault. The second came when the US participated in a reasonable benefit after a handball by Uruguay, yet Ortega blew his whistle after a deferral and got back to the ball for a free-kick. “Unimportant nuances like that are essentially amateur night,” safeguard Antonee Robinson said post-game.
Uruguay began to apply more tension somewhat through the last part, then, at that point, had the Americans in criticalness mode after Olivera tracked down the rear of the net. Likewise, recollecting that the US framed a couple of exceptional entrances in the compartment, they couldn’t find the two objectives they required – or even one.