USA vs Colombia Live Streaming Copa America 2016 Score Match USA v COL Prediction 3rd June: And it has arrived.
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Now, the Americans find themselves under the pressure of needing to win.
AC Milan’s Zapata and Real Madrid star Rodriguez struck in the first half before a sell-out 67,439 crowd at the Levi’s Stadium in northern California to puncture American hopes of emerging from a hard Group A.
“The hand ball was not a hand ball”, defender Geoff Cameron told reporters. “You want to get into the tournament with some momentum”. Colombia’s backline had a solid game and a two goal cushion was more than enough. “You can’t dwell on it”.
But Colombia, which lost to the United States in a stunning defeat during the 1994 World Cup, made sure the hosts didn’t enjoy another giant-killing effort. The large patches of yellow dotted around every part of a sold-out crowd of 67,439 at Levi’s Stadium leapt to their feet and roared with approval. Bacca beat Guzan, who rushed a little late off his line, but not the crossbar, with his chance to make it 3-0 going by the wayside thanks to the woodwork.
A US giveaway at midfield in the 77th minute immediately turned into a breakaway for Colombia.
“That penalty decision was a major point in this game”.
Jurgen Klinsmann is getting killed for saying postmatch that the game was even.
Group A consists of the USMNT, Colombia, Paraguay and Costa Rica and is the toughest group in the tournament.
“Now the response has to be strong and the mentality has to be right so we can respond in a big way”, Bradley said. Because Costa Rica is an opponent the Americans beat routinely in games played on US soil (13-0-3 in home tournament games over the past 30 years), and because losing this game is nearly certain to eliminate them from Copa America just as the tournament is beginning, and because it would add one more massive failure to Klinsmann’s recent competitive record.
“Clint was a warrior out there”, Klinsmann said. Obviously I think the players coming out of the game, they just see that it’s the number three in the world, we can play with them we can damage them.
The moment USMNT fans were waiting for came in the 66th minute when both Darlington Nagbe and teen phenom Christian Pulisic came on as substitutes to replace Jermaine Jones and Bobby Wood. That match will also take place at Levi’s Stadium.
“It was absolutely attractive to see all the yellow jerseys and all the red jerseys”, Klinsmann said.
US captain Michael Bradley will face intense criticism for his sub-par outing.
“Let’s hope what happened to James doesn’t get too complicated”, said Colombia head coach Jose Pekerman. “I won’t say this was a flawless example of their ability, but the USA team has evolved from what we saw in Brazil“. Referee Roberto Orozco Garcia pointed directly to the spot despite protests from the Americans.
“As soon as he told me, the play happened”.
Colombia doubled its advantage three minutes from halftime when DeAndre Yedlin was called for a handball in the box after a United States turnover near their offensive zone. Guzan was picked by Klinsmann to start in the tournament over Howard, the Americans’ goalkeeper at the last two World Cups.
On a Colombia corner kick in the eighth minute of the U.S.’s Copa América Centenario opener, Daniel Torres set a screen in the area.
Five minutes later, Dempsey’s curling free-kick from 25 yards was superbly palmed away by David Ospina. John Brooks had his best game in a US uniform. We know what we have to do.
Since then, he’s gone on to bigger and better things with Madrid and continued to show fabulous form with his country.
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The 2016 edition has been expanded by four teams and is being staged outside the South American Football Confederation for the first time.
