USMNT head coach Mauricio Pochettino said his team \u201cdidn\u2019t approach the game in the same way as the rest of the World Cup\u201d after its 4-1 defeat by Belgium, and accepted responsibility for the performance. He said:<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcac \u201cI congratulate Belgium. They were better than us. It wasn\u2019t our day. That is not to find excuses, because we didn\u2019t show what this team normally can show. That is a reality.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to learn. It\u2019s a process. We need to assess this game and we need to see why we didn\u2019t approach it in the same way as the rest of the World Cup. Maybe the explanation is easy: it wasn\u2019t our day, collectively or individually. Of course, the person with the most responsibility is myself.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd yes, we need to see and check what we did, because it wasn\u2019t the performance or the way that we normally play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pochettino did not say anything about his future with the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USMNT head coach Mauricio Pochettino said his team \u201cdidn\u2019t approach the game in the same way as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-747624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}