The USA returns to the knockout stage of the Gold Cup, where it has been eliminated before the semifinals only once in 12 previous trips — in a shootout to Colombia in 2000. It would be one of thegreat upsets in the history of American soccer if the USA loses to Cuba on Saturday in Baltimore. The game will be a chance for the USA to adjust its lineup and hopefully find the flow that eluded itin an often painful group stage.

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