Here's the actual problem. The US team did quite well during the tournament as a whole. They outperformed what most actual football fans would consider their ceiling. Yet, the media and especially the Americans here on Reddit hyped them up so much that they were bound to not meet expectations. The simple truth is that the US football team is around top 20 in the world and is not even close to the actual good teams. But media hype always kills good performances because they're hidden behind the expectations of insane performances.
The gap between a team ranked 9th and 15th is alot bigger than alot of people realize.
US created some good chances in the 2nd half, but Pulisic was dogshit and until the half, we couldn't win the midfield. We finally got some chances in but Belgiums defense had only a few mistakes and we didn't capitalize.
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u/DaKingballa06 Jul 07 '26
F that. Congrats on them for winning, they were by far the better team