ARLINGTON, Texas — The USA Males’s Nationwide Staff beat Haiti, 2-1, to shut out its Gold Cup group stage with an ideal 3-0-0 document. The win advances the USMNT to the Gold Cup knockout rounds, the place it would face the second-placed group in Group A within the match quarterfinals.
The USMNT fielded a heavily-rotated lineup towards Haiti and experimented with new formations and attacking channels. Here is what we realized from a hard-fought evening out in Texas towards a powerful Haiti facet:
The USMNT is lastly studying its method round set items
The USMNT has many strengths, traditionally talking, nevertheless it’s been a very long time since set items have been one in every of them. So it was equal elements cathartic and thrilling to observe the USMNT storm by way of the opening rounds of the Gold Cup stuffed with set piece confidence.
“Offensively, I really feel like we’ve at all times had the power to be good at them, however we’ve by no means been good at them,” Tyler Adams said with a laugh after the USMNT beat Saudi Arabia thanks to yes, you guessed it, a set piece. “So I feel now it’s vital simply placing the balls in the proper areas, ensuring guys are making the proper runs. Clearly, Chris [Richards] with an excellent end, however I feel it might be an enormous development for us.”
Adams knew what he was speaking about there. The USMNT appeared fabulous on set items once more whereas taking part in Haiti, even whereas fielding a rotated lineup that did not function its normal dead-ball strikers. When the USMNT opened the scoring towards Haiti within the tenth minute, it wasn’t a set piece that did it — nevertheless it was set piece logic, created by Brenden Aaronson throughout a uncommon pause within the sport and completed by Malik Tillman, that introduced the objective to life.
