Costa Rica routs United States as Americans drop to 0-2 in qualifying

But they are ready to bounce back tonight against Costa Rica.

The United States faces Costa Rica in a crucial World Cup qualifier match on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016.

For Klinsmann, the fact that his team sits on zero points from its first two games of the final round of Concacaf World Cup qualifying, known as the Hexagonal, is bad enough.

A downhearted United States coach Jurgen Klinsmann during the World Cup qualifier against Costa Rica in San Jose November 15, 2016. “We’re going to have to look collectively real hard in the mirror at ourselves and understand it’s not been a good start”. It’s definitely the defeat that hurts the most in my five years.

Costa Rica will take charge of this match early and play on the front foot.

The win sees Costa Rica top the six-team table with the only flawless record after two rounds of games. Pulisic took a pass from Jones in the 20th, dribbled to the end line and crossed, but Bobby Wood couldn’t get to the ball before goalkeeper Keylor Navas.

Speculation is running rampant about Klinsmann’s future, but the German manager said he still thinks he’s the right man to lead the team through the rest of the Hex. Guzan is 8-2-0 with the national team this year, including a three-save, 4-0 victory over Costa Rica June 7 in a Copa America Centenario group play game.

The Tico’s soon replied to that attack with a goal via Venegas, putting Costa Rica 1-0 up in the waning minutes of the first half. They rebounded the following month to beat Costa Rica 1-0 in a Colorado snow storm and tie 0-0 at Mexico, and they went on to clinch a World Cup berth in the eighth match of the 10-game round. There was one nice ball in the first half where Bradley swung a free kick to the far post for Altidore who headed it back across the goal, but the US team needs more. “We have to be 100 percent, especially like how we showed in the second half against Mexico, where everybody is sharp, everybody is working for each other. That’s the only chance you have over there”. Instead, what he got was a capitulation to the USA team’s worst qualifying loss in 36 years.

United States have made a poor start to the Hexagonal phase of World Cup qualifying, having lost their opening two games.

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Honduras picked up their first points of the campaign with a 3-1 win over Trinidad and Tobago. Wood and Altidore should reprise their roles from the Mexico game up top. Who plays right midfield if Johnson is at left back-Alejandro Bedoya or Sacha Kljestan? “The 3-4-1-2 in a certain way is a system that actually plays to strength of our players that we have, because a Fabian Johnson plays more on a wing or even sometimes in the middle high up”. Now in charge of the LA Galaxy, where he has won three MLS Cups, the 65-year-old is widely seen as the finest coach the USA has ever produced. Since then, every loss – significant or otherwise – has been greeted by ever-louder calls for the coach to go. Given what is riding on the outcome, the recent trend of long-standing trends being broken, and the US team’s recent success against the Ticos, an American victory shouldn’t be seen as a longshot.