Winger Timothy Weah says the US workforce have to “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 strain on US head coach Mauricio Pochettino with only a few months till this summer season’s match.
Weston McKennie had opened the scoring for the US within the first half, however the Crimson Devils responded with targets 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, but it surely 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] positively a troublesome expertise,” he stated.
“You come into the sport hungry and desirous to win. Clearly in the present day that didn’t work for us.
“We simply must get again into the lab and work and proceed working, work on our sport and our mentality.
“Proper now could be one of the best time for this to occur. We’ve got a World Cup to consider. We need to carry out and we need to get higher.”
Pochettino refuses to panic
Pochettino, in the meantime, refused to be too perturbed by the end result, insisting that his facet had the higher of the primary half.
“The primary half was actually good, I assumed we performed higher than Belgium,” the US boss stated.
“It’s just one sport.”
The US shall be hoping to bounce again after they welcome Portugal to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Tuesday.
Pochettino’s facet then play matches in opposition to Senegal and Germany in Could and June earlier than kicking off their World Cup marketing campaign in opposition to Paraguay on 13 June (UK time) in Inglewood, California.
