“We don’t base decisions on one game, whether it’s today or one win against Ecuador. We look at all of this and we’ll do that after the tournament is over and assess where we are and how we’ve done.Obviously, the three consecutive wins was good. Today and the Colombia game were less good. The semifinals are the teams that are ranked 1, 3, 5 and 31 in the world. We’re still going to play atop-five team on Saturday — let’s make that part of the overall assessment.”
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