Winger Timothy Weah says the US workforce must “get again into the lab and work” after the World Cup co-hosts had been thrashed by Belgium in Atlanta on Saturday.
The guests ran riot on the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, placing 5 previous their hosts to pile additional stress on US head coach Mauricio Pochettino with only a few months till this summer time’s event.
Weston McKennie had opened the scoring for the US within the first half, however the Crimson Devils responded with objectives from Zeno Debast, Amadou Onana, a Charles De Ketelaere penalty and a brace from substitute Dodi Lukebakio.
Patrick Agyemang then pulled one again for the hosts late on, however it proved to be little greater than comfort.
After the sport, Weah, who performs membership soccer in France for Marseille on mortgage from Juventus, admitted it had been a tricky night for the US however insisted there was time to bounce again earlier than the beginning of the World Cup.
“[It was] undoubtedly a tough expertise,” he mentioned.
“You come into the sport hungry and eager to win. Clearly right this moment that didn’t work for us.
“We simply should get again into the lab and work and proceed working, work on our recreation and our mentality.
“Proper now’s the perfect time for this to occur. We now have a World Cup to consider. We wish to carry out and we wish to get higher.”
Pochettino refuses to panic
Pochettino, in the meantime, refused to be too perturbed by the outcome, insisting that his aspect had the higher of the primary half.
“The primary half was actually good, I assumed we performed higher than Belgium,” the US boss mentioned.
“It’s just one recreation.”
The US can be hoping to bounce again once they welcome Portugal to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Tuesday.
Pochettino’s aspect then play matches in opposition to Senegal and Germany in Might and June earlier than kicking off their World Cup marketing campaign in opposition to Paraguay on 13 June (UK time) in Inglewood, California.
