USA-SLOVENIA EXPRESS:Jan. 20 in San Antonio, TexasUSA 0 Slovenia 1. Goal: Gradisar 26.Att.: 9,191. In the first game of 2024, Coach Gregg Berhalter started seven uncapped players, including an all-debutant frontline. The USA lost, 1-0, to Slovenia, which started eight uncapped players. The Americans took four shots in the first half, one of which required […]
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USA-Slovenia Men’s Player Friendly Ratings
Diego Luna and Esmir Bajraktarevic were the most dynamic of the U.S. debutants amid a disappointing unveiling of youngsters by the USMNT.
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USA-China Women's Friendly Player Ratings
USA-CHINA EXPRESS:Dec. 5 in Frisco, TexasUSA 2 China 1. Goals: Coffey 62, Shaw 79; Mengyu 45.Att.: 11,024. * * * * * * * * * * The USA overcame a 1-0 halftime deficit to beat China 2-1 in its final game of 2023. An otherwise brisk and quiet night in North Texas was suddenly filled with alarm […]
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USA-China Women's Friendly Player Ratings
USA-CHINA EXPRESS:Dec. 2 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.USA 3 China 0. Goals: Smith 8, Horan 52, Rodman 77.Att.: 8,768. * * * * * * * * * * Stars, stripes and fluidity. The USA dominated China from the first whistle until the last and produced a 3-0 win that perhaps showed this team is beginning to develop […]
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Trinidad & Tobago-USA Concacaf Nations League Player Ratings
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO-USA EXPRESS:Nov. 20 in Port of SpainTrinidad & Tobago 2 USA 1. Goals: Moore 43, Jones 57; A.Robinson 25.Red card: USA– Dest 39.Att.: n/a. The USA lost, 2-1, at Trinidad & Tobago on Monday but advanced to the Concacaf Nations League semifinals and qualified for the 2024 Copa America thanks to its 3-0 home-leg win last Thursday, […]
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USA-Trinidad & Tobago Concacaf Nations League Player Ratings
USA-TRINIDAD & TOBAGO EXPRESS:Nov. 16 in Austin, TexasUSA 3 Trinidad & Tobago 0. Goals: Pepi 82, A.Robinson 86, Reyna 89.Att.: 19,850. Fielding an all European-based starting lineup, the USA played a first half as if suffering from interplanetary jet lag against a Trinidad & Tobago team that defended with 10 men. It became a nine-man defense after Noah […]
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USA-Colombia Friendly Women's Player Ratings
USA-COLOMBIA EXPRESS:Oct. 29 in San Diego USA 3 Colombia 0. Goals: Fishel 56, Horan 62, Shaw 83.Att.: 16,202. The USWNT shook off a misfiring first half to take care of Colombia 3-0 on a balmy afternoon at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego. It was a feisty match that tested the very notion of an international friendly, with 47 fouls […]
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USA-Colombia Friendly Women's Player Ratings
USA-COLOMBIA EXPRESS:Oct. 26 in Sandy, Utah USA 0 Colombia 0.Att.: 13,058 * * * * * * * * * * A clunky feeling of inertia ruled the day as an all too familiar USWNT played out a scoreless draw against Colombia on Thursday night in Salt Lake City. Just like at last summer’s disappointing World Cup, the […]
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USA-Ghana Men's Friendly Player Ratings
USA-GHANA EXPRESS:Oct. 17 in Nashville, Tenn.USA 4 Ghana 0. Goals: Reyna 10, 39, Pulisic (pen.) 19, Balogun 22. Att.: 18,468. * * * * * * * * * * Gregg Berhalter‘s men bounced back from Saturday’s 3-1 loss to Germany with a 4-0 win over Ghana on Tuesday. Playmaker Gio Reyna and center forward Folarin Balogun led an […]
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USA-Germany Men's Friendly Player Ratings
USA-GERMANY EXPRESS:Oct. 14 in East Hartford, ConnecticutUSA 1 Germany 3. Goals: Pulisic 27; Gündogan 39, Füllkrug 58, Musiala 61.Att.: 37,743. * * * * * * * * * * The USA took the lead on a brilliant Christian Pulisic strike and mostly matched Germany in an action-packed end-to-end first half that finished a justified 1-1 score […]