United States Emma Hayes’s head coach admitted that Tuesday 2-1 loss Brazil “Sucks,” but she said that now she has a clearer vision of which players are long -term solutions, and that “we must not always measure progress according to the result”.
USWNT lost 2-1 with Brazil in PayPal Park in San Jose, California after replacement Amanda Gutierres He scored in the fifth minute of the second half stop.
Hayes launched a line -up with an average of less than 18 caps per players that the least experienced USWT started the game since March 2001, when the generation of older players stayed in their clubs during the international window to start a new professional league.
“If I preferred short -term success, of course I wouldn’t make so much change,” Hayes said. “But I don’t decide on the short -term horizon; I prefer progress from expanding the playing pool to see what these players look like in a really difficult match.”
USWNT defeated Brazil 2-0 on Saturday near Los Angeles in the first match of the Olympic gold medal 2024.
Hayes made seven changes for Tuesday’s match, including goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn Earns a third cap, defender Avery Patterson Earn your first start three days after your debut and teenagers Claire Hutton (19) and Lily Yohannes (17) in the middle of the field.
Forward Catarina Macario Put the United States after only 34 seconds, but the Americans came out “completely flat” in the second half, Hayes said, remarking that after half -time they created a desperate 0.0 expected target.
The second half of Tuesday’s game turned into a sloppy game with numerous stops for injuries and substitution.
Hayes brought several veterans between seven substitutions (including shock changes) and USnt promoted the goal of the winning at the time of stopping.
Brazil, however, caught the Americans on the counterattack and the break 3-V-3 eventually led Gutierres scored a goal.
Hayes said that the loss in this way will serve as a hard and tangible lesson for a group of inexperience.
“If we can’t win it, we won’t lose,” Hayes said. “And some of those cute things you need to need at the highest level to avoid losing, give me the opportunity to remind us of what it looks like in 93. A minute to ensure that it doesn’t happen. And most importantly, we don’t get out of the World Championship today.”
Tuesday’s loss was the second of three games for USWT after falling on Japan in Shebelieves cup in February.
Previously, USWNT did not lose in his first 17 games under Hayes.
Hayes said he was “much clearer” for which players are ready and who do not follow this training camp, even in a wide open position of the goalkeeper.
On Tuesday she appreciated Hutton as “excellent”, and so was the complementary Patterson, who left the game in the second half as a concussion with apparent eye injury.
Hayes said on Tuesday that both games against Brazil, eighth in the world, allowed her to “put (players) into the pan and feel warm.”
The upcoming games to Spring and Summer against Republic and ChinaTwo weaker opponents could only confirm what she already knows.
USWNT will not play in official competitions in 2025, which means that a set of games against Brazil-Plus a recent match against Japan-Nabidl Hayes’s best opportunity to play a rival with a high caliber “until we hope to go to Brazil, maybe next year” before the World Cup 2027.
“You have to go through this stage of development to make progress for the next level, and I really think in this camp we have seen enough good things to know that we are heading in the right direction,” Hayes said.
“The result is angry and it is okay to feel it, but we will improve.”
