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Jeff Carlisle
Scheduled Tribes. Louis – after an hour Diego LunaTwo goals helped to pursue American men’s national team Golden bowl Final with Wednesday’s 2-1 win GuatemalaNot much changed for the US midfielder. His blonde, pointed hair was still completely in place, and it was impossible to dislike his humility.
Luna said about her performance in the postmatch mixed field, “Personally, of course, it comes with enthusiasm and people praise you.” “But I think the best thing we are in the final, and the team closed it [2-1] Victory, and it all matters. ,
Still when it comes to Luna time with USMNT, a lot has changed. From the onset of this Gold Cup, Luna has been one of the revelations to the US, which has been without many first choice players due to a combination of injury and fatigue. In the 5–0 win tournament over Trinidad & Tobago, his two assistance sent America for a nearby start. His goal in quarter final win Costa Rica Proven important, as it was already a target below with the US.
In the semi -finals of Wednesday, Luna took her game to a new level – and ManDid USMNT require his two goals contributing.
Play with Guatemala in about 30 years in his first Gold Cup semi -finals, fans of fans Los chapins The flock Energizer Stadium, leaving the US in its own country, playing an unexpected role of the visitors. The ratio of Guatemala fans for American fans was at least 2 -se -1, perhaps more.
It was a reality that the players on this young American roster had difficulty wrapping their heads, and the defender was needed. Tim rem To give his team a crash course in ConcacAF fan Dynamics. Fans from Central American countries are ready to travel great distance to see their team, especially with a place in a gold cup final on the line.
“This is different. It can be strange, especially for people that this is their first time,” Reem said. “They are liked, ‘Wait a minute, we are in America – why are we not a majority of our fans?” This is the way.
Luna took that advice from the heart, adding the atmosphere “terrible” and, “Every game should be like this.” And it was 21 years old, who left America for the beginning of a dream, to score opportunism and skills twice in the first 15 minutes of the game.
Luna was first bounced on the rebound when he was a goalkeeper of Guatemala Kanderson Navaro Spilled Luka de la toreShot just in front of the goal in the fourth minute. Eleven minutes later, Luna collected a cross-field pass Malik TilmanOpened an invincible shot to its left, then right, and your other. He then went to the corner and celebrated Indonesian boat race kid dance,
“I saw the man coming from behind me, but it was one-one and I work on that step and both sides can go left, right,” he said. “So it is difficult for a defender to see one-one to go with such a place on each side.”
Luna ceremonies stimulated the supporting part of the US, it became an internal calm. Luna, by relying on her tendency in her career and engaging in medicine, to ensure that her head is in the right place. There was definitely a case in this match.
He said, “I think it is just about having a mental place, the mental clarity of going to sports is just free, enjoying what I am doing, enjoying it, is making sure that my family’s healthy, everyone’s house is taken care of and it does what I do and do what I do.”
While Luna’s head was calm, it could not be said for some of his colleagues who showed a lot of nerves from about the 30th minute. The US worked through most of the rest of the match, under the steady pressure of a Guatemala attack, its initial edge edge that was by the biased crowd. and when Olger ascobar In the 80th minute, a goal was pulled back to Guatemala, the stadium exploded with a roar, which tested America’s subtlety.
The United States was left to avoid 10 panic of normal time and one and four minutes of stops from time to time. He did, but not before the goalkeeper mat freeze – who tolerated their share of unstable moments in the first half, in the first half, on the contrary. His penalty shoot-out heroines The vs. Costa provided a luxurious, two-hand savings to preserve the Rica Rica-Leid.
Finally, Reem counted it as another lesson learned to this side. The US could definitely do a better job of keeping the ball in the second half, especially in the last 15 minutes. The American defender admitted that more learned to learn.
“I think you cannot understand what a partial crowd can do for the young minds, the people who have not experienced it,” said Reem. “So just a little more peace, more ease, understanding that, okay, the game is sharp, but the game can be slow. You can slow down with a breath. You can slow down by touching. You can slow down and slow down and know that the man is next to you and can understand our positional play and people are going to pop up.
“This is just that sometimes there is pressure: fans feel that they are above you, the noise is getting deaf and you lose it a little. [and will think] I really have more time that I have realized and more time than I think. ,
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They will need. Thanks for MexicoWin 1-0 Honduras In another semi -finals, USMNT is now set to square against his old rival in the Gold Cup final on Sunday. The NRG Stadium has a capacity of 72,220, not 22,423 which is the Energizer Stadium, and you can bet that those seats will be filled mostly El tri Fan. The noise at Houston’s indoor site will go to 11.
Those factors have not prevented the previous versions of the USMNT from coming to the top, but it is clear that this American side will need to increase its level. In addition to the blowout against T&T, the US is scrapping in its other matches. To strengthen it, the tournament will have to play its best game. But for now, the USMNT is the base to reach a final that was not long ago that they looked beyond them.
“We are in a final that I would say a month ago, everyone originally counted us out. It is a shame on them,” Reem said. “So it likes it for us, yes, great, amazing. This is a knockout football, you find a way to win, you find a way to grind it, you find a way to do it, and why don’t we be happy to go to a final and play for a trophy?”
For her share, Luna is embracing that possibility. Being a Mexican-American heritage, he once entertained the idea of playing for Mexico before being firmly committed to the US earlier this year. Come on Sunday, it will be a part of this storage rivalry.
“It’s going to be terrible, okay? I have always dreamed that it would be untrue to see the USA-Maxico Games and to play in one,” he said. “So it will be a terrible experience. And then from there, it is just a fight, a fight you are going and we will see what comes up.”
It seems that the latest American football hero is ready.
