Well, the past several days haven\u2019t exactly set the stage of encouragement heading into the USMNT hosting the 2026 World Cup. Weston McKennie opened the scoring and Patrick Agyemang closed it but the US gave up five goals to Belgium in between and ended with an embarrassing 5-2 score line though arguably the actual flow of the game was not that bad.<\/p>\n
The ratings were not particularly surprising, with most players scoring well below average, particularly those who played defense or came in as substitutes in the second half when things really got away from the US. Of the starters Matt Turner (3.68) and Tim Ream (3.7) were hit particularly hard. This isn\u2019t particularly surprising for a keeper who gives up five goals, and it seems like it will be hard for Turner to break into the starting lineup again but he really wasn\u2019t done any favors by his defense, including Ream who\u2019s handball was pretty avoidable.<\/p>\n
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There were a couple of players who rose above the fray, in particular Antonee Robinson who was a welcome sight returning to the lineup, bombing up and down the left side again and goal scoring Weston McKennie, who missed an early chance but was able to bring his club form to bear on his international appearance, scoring a goal and making his presence felt throughout the match. Robinson scored a 6.69 but it was McKennie with an even 7.0 who walks away with your SSFC Man of the Match honors.<\/p>\n
Below are the full scores with the starters listed first and in order of their rankings, followed by the substitutes.<\/p>\n
Weston McKennie \u2013 7.0<\/p>\n
Antonee Robinson \u2013 6.69<\/p>\n
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Johnny Cardoso \u2013 5.40<\/p>\n
Folarin Balogun \u2013 5.11<\/p>\n
Tanner Tessmann \u2013 4.89<\/p>\n
Malik Tillman \u2013 4.83<\/p>\n
Christian Pulisic \u2013 4.68<\/p>\n
Tim Weah \u2013 4.61<\/p>\n
Mark McKenzie \u2013 4.39<\/p>\n
Tim Ream \u2013 3.7<\/p>\n
Matt Turner \u2013 3.68<\/p>\n
Sub \u2013 Patrick Agyemang \u2013 5.52<\/p>\n
Sub \u2013 Ricardo Pepi \u2013 5.08<\/p>\n
Sub \u2013 Gio Reyna \u2013 4.14<\/p>\n
Sub \u2013 Joe Scally \u2013 4.08<\/p>\n
Sub \u2013 Alex Freeman \u2013 3.99<\/p>\n
Sub \u2013 Cristian Roldan \u2013 3.74<\/p>\n
Sub \u2013 Sebastian Berhalter \u2013 2.95<\/p>\n
Sub \u2013 Max Arfsten \u2013 2.64<\/p>\n
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Coach \u2013 Mauricio Pochettino \u2013 3.85<\/p>\n
Match Official\u00a0\u2013 5.79<\/p>\n
Do these ratings seem about right to you or what would you have changed? Let us know in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, the past several days haven\u2019t exactly set the stage of encouragement heading into the USMNT hosting the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4568,4542,7,4561,4548,4559,4531,4549,4553,4557,4562,4540,6142,4554,4560,4551,4555,4539,4543,4529,4564],"class_list":{"0":"post-9939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-alex-freeman","9":"tag-antonee-robinson","10":"tag-belgium","11":"tag-christian-pulisic","12":"tag-cristian-roldan","13":"tag-folarin-balogun","14":"tag-gio-reyna","15":"tag-joe-scally","16":"tag-johnny-cardoso","17":"tag-malik-tillman","18":"tag-mark-mckenzie","19":"tag-matt-turner","20":"tag-mercedes-benz-stadium","21":"tag-patrick-agyemang","22":"tag-ricardo-pepi","23":"tag-sebastian-berhalter","24":"tag-tanner-tessmann","25":"tag-tim-ream","26":"tag-tim-weah","27":"tag-usmnt","28":"tag-weston-mckennie"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116333162389395304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}