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Matt Freese saved three penalty kicks and Damion Downs scored the decisive penalty as the U.S. men’s national team beat Costa Rica 4-3 in a dramatic six-round penalty shootout. Now, the Americans will advance to the Gold Cup semifinals, where they will face Guatemala on Wednesday, July 2 in St. Louis (7 p.m. ET on FS1).
United States goalkeeper Matt Freese said he was well prepared and had studied up for penalties after providing three saves in a dramatic 4-3 shootout win over Costa Rica in Sunday's Gold Cup quarterfinal.
There were undoubtedly some close calls in the group stage, but the U.S. men's national team have so far gotten the job done in the Gold Cup. Winning their group with a perfect three wins from three matches against Trinidad & Tobago, Saudi Arabia and Haiti, head coach Mauricio Pochettino and his title contenders have picked up momentum and avoided a disastrous early exit in the competition.
ATLANTA: Paris Saint-Germain have come to the Club World Cup as newly crowned champions of Europe, but a meeting with the Inter Miami of Lionel Messi in the last 16 this Sunday brings back memories of unhappier times for the French club. PSG’s stunning 5-0 demolition of Inter Milan in Munich at the end of last month which allowed them to win the UEFA Champions League for the first time completed an incredible season for the Qatar-backed side under the coaching of Luis Enrique. It is no coincidence that PSG achieved their crowning glory in their first season after definitively shifting their focus away from signing superstar players to instead allow a brilliant coach to work with a hungry, dynamic young team. Kylian Mbappe’s move a year ago to Real Madrid followed the departures in 2023 of Neymar, the world’s most expensive signing when he joined in 2017, and Messi, in the same summer Luis Enrique was appointed. When PSG pounced in August 2021 to sign Messi after a cash-strapped Barcelona were unable to keep him, the French side logically thought the Argentinian could be the man to deliver elusive Champions League glory. Messi, who was 34 at the time, thought the same thing. “My dream is to win another Champions League and I think I am in the ideal place to have that chance and to do it,” he said at his unveiling. Alas, it did not work out that way, either in Messi’s first season in Paris, under compatriot Mauricio Pochettino in 2021/22, or in the next campaign under Christophe Galtier. PSG had got to the Champions League final and then semifinals in the two seasons prior to Messi’s arrival, so he looked like the final piece in the jigsaw. Instead they went backwards with him in the side, going out of Europe’s elite club
Next up for the U.S. men's national team is a CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinals clash against Costa Rica on Sunday (7 p.m. ET on FOX).
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ARLINGTON, Texas – Mauricio Pochettino smiled and shook his head in disbelief. He’s been asked about Malik Tillman quite a few times during this Gold Cup, and he’s running out of ways to say the same thing.
ARLINGTON, Texas — United States manager Mauricio Pochettino said he was pleased to see his team deliver a «professional performance» in defeating Haiti 2-1 in the Concacaf Gold Cup.