The men’s soccer team USA lost this Sunday 2-1 to Swiss in a friendly held four days before the start of the final phase of the Concacaf Nations League.
Sebastian Lletget put the Americans ahead in the 5th minute at the stadium Kybunpark of St. Gallen (Swiss) but the locals came back through the defense Ricardo Rodriguez in the 10 and the midfielder Steven Zuber in 63.
The North American coach, Gregg Berhalter, could not count on his offensive figure Christian Pulisic, which on Saturday was proclaimed champion of the Champions League with Chelsea, but he lined up the rest of his young promises, including Sergiño Dest (FC Barcelona), Weston McKennie (Juventus) and Gio Reyna (Borussia Dortmund).
The friendly was the last American rehearsal for their semifinal of the Nations league next Thursday before Honduras on Denver (Colorado) while Swiss maintains its good trajectory in the face of Eurocup of June.
Berhalter tested with an offensive line made up of Try, 18 years old, and the forward of the Werder Bremen, Josh Sargent while repositioning on the left side to Sergiño Dest, who had an erratic performance in defense.
The young American team only took five minutes to raise the first goal to the scoreboard through Lletget.
After a center to the area of Gio Reyna and several rebounds, the ball reached the midfielder of the LA Galaxy to score 1-0.
It didn’t take long for the locals to tie with a mid-range shot from Ricardo Rodriguez, defense of Torino.
The United States continued to dominate possession and Sargent Y Aaronson they could put him back in advantage but it was Swiss who had the best chance with a penalty by hand of Sergiño Dest.
In minute 42, Rodriguez he looked for his double but took the maximum penalty deflected to the left of the goalkeeper Ethan Horvath (Brugge).
Disappointing second half
At the start of the second half, Try fired a shot at the goalkeeper’s left post from outside the area Yann Sommer in minute 52.
Little by little, the European squad, with its figures xherdan Shaqiri (Liverpool) y Granit xhaka (Arsenal), was containing his inexperienced rival and taking advantage of several imbalances behind.
The final 2-1 came in a convoluted play in the area in which, after a bad rejection of Dest and several rebounds, the ball fell to Zuber for you to define in the small area.
USA He did not again generate great danger in the rival goal and continued to show signs of insecurity in defense that he will have to resolve in a hurry Berhalter.
In the case of victory before Honduras Thursday, USA will face Sunday for the first title of the Nations league to the winner of the other semifinal between Mexico and Costa Rica.
For his part Swiss will still play another friendly against Liechtenstein, on June 3, before the start of the Eurocup, in which it is framed in Group A together with Italy, Wales and Turkey.
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