Winger Timothy Weah says the US crew must “get again into the lab and work” after the World Cup co-hosts have been thrashed by Belgium in Atlanta on Saturday.
The guests ran riot on the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, putting five past their hosts to pile additional stress on US head coach Mauricio Pochettino with just some months till this summer season’s match.
Weston McKennie had opened the scoring for the US within the first half, however the Pink 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, nevertheless 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 troublesome 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 stated.
“You come into the sport hungry and desirous to win. Clearly right now 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 most effective time for this to occur. We have now 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 consequence, insisting that his aspect had the higher of the primary half.
“The primary half was actually good, I believed we performed higher than Belgium,” the US boss stated.
“It’s just one recreation.”
The US will likely be hoping to bounce again after they welcome Portugal to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Tuesday.
Pochettino’s aspect then play matches towards Senegal and Germany in Might and June earlier than kicking off their World Cup marketing campaign towards Paraguay on 13 June (UK time) in Inglewood, California.
