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Yahoo
23-03-2025
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- Yahoo
USMNT vs. Canada live tracker: Updates, highlights, analysis of unexpected 3rd-place match in CONCACAF Nations League
The. U.S. men's national team will attempt to salvage something from a dismal CONCACAF Nations League campaign when it faces Canada in Sunday's third-place match (6 p.m. ET, Paramount+/TUDN). After an uninspired 1-0 loss to Panama on Thursday in the semifinals, Mauricio Pochettino's USMNT squad is under scrutiny, with questions swirling about its mentality, urgency and ability to respond to adversity. Thursday's defeat at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, in front of a sparse home crowd was a sobering reality check. The Americans lacked aggression and purpose, but most of all they lacked creativity before succumbing to a 94th-minute Cecilio Waterman goal that exposed the frailties that led to Gregg Berhalter's dismissal last summer. The more than half-empty stadium and subdued crowd only reinforced the sense of a team searching for motivation. Pochettino did not mince words postgame when lamenting his team's lack of intensity and fight. Now, with only a consolation prize at stake, the USMNT must find a response against a Canadian side that fell 2-0 to Mexico in its semifinal. Les Rouges, under American head coach Jesse March, showed grit despite the loss and will be eager to make a statement amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Canada. Will the USMNT embrace the physicality and urgency needed to compete at a higher level? Or will they stumble into another lifeless performance, deepening concerns about their trajectory with the 2026 World Cup looming? Follow our live tracker below for all the latest updates from the match. The XI to begin our podium push, presented by @GE_Appliances 👇Le XI pour débuter notre course au podium, présenté par @GE_Appliances 👇#CANMNT — CANMNT (@CANMNT_Official) March 23, 2025 Our Starting XI for today's match. — U.S. Soccer Men's National Team (@USMNT) March 23, 2025 The XI to begin our podium push, presented by @GE_Appliances 👇Le XI pour débuter notre course au podium, présenté par @GE_Appliances 👇#CANMNT — CANMNT (@CANMNT_Official) March 23, 2025 Our Starting XI for today's match. — U.S. Soccer Men's National Team (@USMNT) March 23, 2025
USA Today
22-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Mexico vs. Panama: Where to watch Nations League final, TV channel, live stream
Mexico vs. Panama: Where to watch Nations League final, TV channel, live stream Show Caption Hide Caption 15-year-old soccer star Cavan Sullivan has lofty goals with USMNT One of America's most promising young soccer stars Cavan Sullivan has sights set on the 2026 World Cup and beyond. Sports Pulse A new Concacaf Nations League champion will be crowned when Mexico faces Panama on Sunday in the final at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. Both teams will be looking to win the competition for the first time, with the United States emerging victorious on all three previous occasions. But Panama's shock 1-0 win over the U.S. in the semifinal ensured that a new team will win the competition in 2024-25. Cecilio Waterman scored a dramatic 94th-minute winner on Panama's only shot on target of the game, giving Los Canaleros a 1-0 victory and seeing them advance to the final. Watch Mexico vs. Panama on Paramount+ They will face El Tri in the showpiece, with Raúl Jiménez scoring a brace against Canada to seal a 2-0 win in the other semifinal. This game will be a rematch of the 2023 Gold Cup final, which Mexico won 1-0 after an 88th-minute winner from Santiago Giménez. The most recent meeting between these teams was the 2024 Nations League semifinal, which Mexico easily won 3-0. Here is everything you need to know ahead of the match. Mexico vs. Panama (Concacaf Nations League final) When: Sunday, March 23 Sunday, March 23 Where: SoFi Stadium (Los Angeles, California) SoFi Stadium (Los Angeles, California) Time: 9:30 p.m. ET 9:30 p.m. ET Channel/streaming: Paramount+ (WATCH LIVE), Univision, TUDN, ViX (Watch on Prime Video) We occasionally recommend interesting products and services. If you make a purchase by clicking one of the links, we may earn an affiliate fee. Pro Soccer Wire operates independently, though, and this doesn't influence our coverage.
Daily Tribune
22-03-2025
- Sport
- Daily Tribune
Panama stun ‘painful' USA to reach Nations League final
Cecilio Waterman scored a stoppage-time winner as Panama stunned defending champions the United States 1-0 to book their place in the CONCACAF Nations League final on Thursday. In a shock result that came in Mauricio Pochettino's first competitive match in charge of the United States, Waterman slammed home a low angled finish in the fourth minute of stoppage time to send the holders crashing out at a half-empty SoFi Stadium. The result sends Panama into Sunday's final, where they will face either Mexico or Canada, who play in Thursday's other semi-final. But the defeat sends US coach Pochettino back to the drawing board after a performance the Argentine described afterwards as 'really painful.' 'I am very, very disappointed,' Pochettino said. 'I could see that the way we approached the game and start wasn't in the right way.
New York Times
21-03-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
The Athletic FC: USMNT, Canada and…. Thierry Henry stunned; what has Tuchel been up to?
The Athletic FC ⚽ is The Athletic's daily football (or soccer, if you prefer) newsletter. Sign up to receive it directly to your inbox. Hello! A bad night for the USMNT. A great night for Cecilio Waterman. A surreal night for Thierry Henry. Coming up: 🇺🇸 Poch's first U.S. setback 🇲🇽 Jimenez beauty sinks Canada 🏴 The lesser-spotted Tuchel 🇫🇷 Modric scolds Mbappe Here's a lesson in learning to walk before you go wild and run. A few days ago, Mauricio Pochettino was talking (hypothetically, sure) about the USMNT winning the World Cup and morphing into the planet's top dogs. Then along came the Nations League Finals to hit him hard with a dose of smelling salts. Advertisement The semi-final against Panama was Pochettino's first test as U.S. boss, the first high-stakes moment for a high-end, highly paid head coach. And last night, the USMNT melted, beaten in the semi-finals by Panama with virtually the last kick. What's the Spanish for 'false start', or 'give me strength'? A bristling Pochettino let his hands go afterwards. 'You're the USA but you cannot win with your shirt' was not far off a warning about arrogance. The headline from our report — 'Same Berhalter-era woes linger…' — says it all because the purpose of hiring Pochettino was to shake off Gregg Berhalter's limits. These are early days and there's a long game to be played (Tyler Adams did his best to deflect blame from his head coach), but yesterday's 1-0 defeat won't go down well. It came in the 94th minute via Panama's only shot on target, a goal that generated a lovely moment: Cecilio Waterman threading the eye of the needle brilliantly and then sprinting off to find CBS analyst Thierry Henry at pitchside. Waterman shouted 'eres mi idolo' in Henry's face — 'you are my idol' — and a hysterical Henry loved it. The pair of them will treasure the evening. Pochettino would prefer not to speak of it again. The line-up for Sunday's final is the one we didn't predict: Panama versus Mexico after Javier Aguirre's team saw off Canada in yesterday's later kick-off. If truth be told, that contest was more of a 50-50 on paper and Canada had no way around two Raul Jimenez goals, the first scored after 45 seconds and the second, above, a beast of a free kick. But the 2-0 defeat represents a backwards step for a side who had been making tangible progress. Realistically, Canada's prospects at the 2026 World Cup are limited. The USMNT, in contrast, hired Pochettino with the ambition of making waves. Their experiences at last year's Copa America and now the Nations League Finals (where Panama beat them both times) are painful punches in a cycle where all roads lead the USMNT back to square one. There's a train of thought that says the England team aren't broken, ergo they don't need to be fixed. World Cup semi-finalists, World Cup quarter-finalists and European Championship runners-up twice: the past eight years were no car crash. Scratch below the surface, though, and a refresh was called for. Gareth Southgate looked jaded at last summer's Euros and so did his tactics. The harmony of his squad — the pillar of everything he built as national manager — was sliding out of tune. Time to go, which he did. Advertisement But if the expectation was that his successor, Thomas Tuchel, would rip it up and start again, the German has confounded everybody. He took the job in October. He hasn't overseen a single game. In preparation for his first against Albania at Wembley tonight, he dug up two Southgate favourites who we assumed were permanently buried: Jordan Henderson and Marcus Rashford. What, then, will Tuchel's England look like? Is he ready to launch? And what has he been doing for the past six months? In fairness to Tuchel's schedule, there's been no shortage of networking in the background. The range of meetings listed in this overview of his reign to date runs from Prince William to Southgate, and his choice of squad for this evening was a thorough process. Tuchel, whose tacit target is to win the 2026 World Cup, started with a long list of 55 names before whittling it down. While the group isn't a sea-change, he does intend to shift away from Southgate's maligned, defensive style. He has gone further, claiming England were spooked by the fear of defeat at Euro 2024. We'll see what happens in practice because Tuchel is hardly renowned as a white-knuckle man, but he was a Champions League winner at Chelsea and he isn't troubled by low self-confidence. Perhaps his light-touch approach reflects an unusual scenario, where a team aren't broken but do need fixing. (Selected games, kick-offs ET/UK time) Friday: World Cup qualifier: Group K — England vs Albania, 3.45pm/7.45pm — ViX/ITV. Saturday: World Cup qualifiers: Group I — Moldova vs Norway, 1pm/5pm — Fox Sports, Fubo, ViX/Viaplay. Group J — Wales vs Kazakhstan, 3.45pm/7.45pm — Fox Sports, Fubo, ViX/BBC Sport. MLS (all MLS Season Pass/Apple TV): Cincinnati vs Atlanta United, 2.30pm/6.30pm; Minnesota United vs LA Galaxy, 4.30pm/8.30pm; Sporting Kansas City vs LAFC, 8.30pm/Sunday 12.30am. Advertisement Sunday: UEFA Nations League quarter-final second legs (all 3.45pm/7.45pm and Vix/Viaplay): France (0) vs Croatia (2); Germany (2) vs Italy (1)*; Portugal (0) vs Denmark (1)*; Spain (2) vs Netherlands (2). *also on Fox Sports and Fubo Concacaf Nations League (both Paramount+/Concacaf YouTube): third-place match: USMNT vs Canada, 6pm/10pm; final: Mexico vs Panama, 9.30pm/Monday 1.30am. Last night's European internationals weren't much to write home about, although I did chuckle at Thibaut Courtois — fresh from talking his way back into the Belgian camp — reflecting on his life choices as Belgium's defence fell apart in a 3-1 loss against Ukraine. Elsewhere, Spain went all Arsenal by getting Mikel Merino to bail them out in a 2-2 draw with the Netherlands, and Rasmus Hojlund denied taunting his idol after pinching Cristiano Ronaldo's 'siuuu' celebration in Denmark's 1-0 win against Portugal. I'm sure CR7 was touched. Kylian Mbappe's return for France, however, did not help them avoid a defeat in Croatia. Not only that, but he also got an old-fashioned dressing down from Real Madrid team-mate Luka Modric for what could be politely described as simulation (above). Tut, tut.
Fox Sports
21-03-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
With 2026 World Cup 15 months away, USMNT blows 'perfect opportunity' to build momentum
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — In a mere 15 months' time, the United States men's national team will open the highly anticipated 2026 World Cup on home soil in this exact same venue. At that point, the Americans hope that SoFi Stadium will represent something a bit more joyful. Because right now, the feelings surrounding the program are the opposite of that. On Thursday evening, in front of a noticeably thin crowd, the USMNT were stunned when Panama substitute forward Cecilio Waterman converted his side's only shot on-target in the final minutes of stoppage time to clinch a 1-0 win over the tournament favorite. The U.S. has won every single Nations League title since the tournament began, and now with this semifinal loss, is guaranteed a third-place finish at best. The USMNT will face Canada — which lost to Mexico 2-0 in Thursday's second game — on Sunday afternoon. Mexico and Panama will play in the final that night. The loss was crushing to a team that is supposed to be in the midst of a progressive rebuild under new coach Mauricio Pochettino, who was hired last September. He replaced Gregg Berhalter, who was fired after the Americans failed to get out of their group at last summer's Copa América. The USMNT only has two opportunities to play meaningful games before next summer's World Cup — this week's Nations League and then the Gold Cup, which begins in June. As a World Cup co-host, the U.S. doesn't have to play qualifying matches and needs as much competition playing together as possible. They blew this first moment, losing to Panama for a third straight time in a tournament setting. The Panamanians have become the USMNT's bogeyman, beating them in the 2023 Gold Cup, 2024 Copa América, and now the 2025 Nations League. "Where to begin?" Tyler Adams said when asked how the team can rebound. "It was a perfect opportunity to start that rebuilding process right now. It's a bit disappointing in my eyes. I don't know what we lacked exactly, whether it was that competitive nature, that mentality. But we need to look in the mirror before anything and just realize that, when we have these types of games, we can't wait for something to happen. We need to make things happen and put games on our terms. "It just needs to be better." In his post-game news conference, Pochettino repeatedly said the team lacked aggression and said the first half was "painful to see." Sure, Panama played a more organized and inspired game, and its 5-4-1 formation was tactically frustrating. But the U.S. couldn't win one-on-one duels, struggled to get behind the back line and failed to finish the few opportunities it did have in front of goal. There was a feeling that little things in the buildup were off, be it a touch here or a pass there. Pochettino said the U.S. "played too slow" and that while there was some improvement in the second half, "you never had the feeling you can score." It's not like these are new problems for the U.S. They happened under Berhalter and now they're happening under Pochettino. "I've never blamed a coach in my entire career," Adams said. "I mean, a loss depends on the players. That's the bottom line. There was no lack of communication in what was happening today. We knew exactly what we had to do. We knew we needed to be competitive. I don't think we were as competitive as we needed to be." The USMNT's best chances came around the 20-minute mark when both Josh Sargent and Weston McKennie had clear opportunities to score. Sargent's close-range shot ricocheted off defender Edgardo Farina and then hit the right post, while McKennie had a header on-target that went straight into goalkeeper Orlando Mosquera's arms. Patrick Agyemang was dangerous on a couple of occasions after he subbed on in the second half, but couldn't find the back of the net either. "Sharpness for sure can be better," Adams said. "I'm not sitting here to make excuses about anything. We're not jet-lagged, we're not anything. Guys play three-game weeks all the time in tough environments in Premier League or whatever league they're playing in, respectively, and it's tough. I think we have new ideas in our heads, and you can tell we're trying to work through them for sure." The reality of the atmosphere probably didn't help, either. SoFi Stadium can accommodate 70,000 people, and it was hardly filled at kickoff. Christian Pulisic may have seemed surprised by the lack of fans when the teams came out for the national anthems, but players said they weren't concerned by crowd size or support. "It was 4 p.m. on a Thursday," Adams said. "I think people are working if I had to guess." "If you can't get up for games like this, then there's an issue," added Tim Ream. "It's not something we look at. You have to find your own motivation." The reality, however, is that a game day atmosphere is completely different when there's a packed stadium of home fans, which is what Mexico essentially experienced by the time it's semifinal match vs. Canada kicked off around 7:30 p.m. PT. SoFi was significantly fuller for the nightcap and when Raul Jimenez scored in the opening minute to give his side a quick 1-0 lead, it sounded like the place was at maximum capacity. So where does the U.S. go from here? Should it feel concerned that time is ticking and the World Cup is only getting closer? "It's football at the end of the day," Adams said. "You win some, you lose some. We need to start adding up wins though. That builds confidence in international football. You don't have time together, that's the bottom line. Like, we're not going to develop some crazy style of play all of the sudden and, you know, come out and play like Man City or something. That's just not what international football is. "It comes down to the smallest moments." The U.S. out-shot Panama 12-3 (five on target), had nine corner kicks and controlled possession. But when it came down to those small moments, the visiting team capitalized. "They were hungry," Pochettino said. "That was the difference." Laken Litman covers college football, college basketball and soccer for FOX Sports. She previously wrote for Sports Illustrated, USA Today and The Indianapolis Star. She is the author of "Strong Like a Woman," published in spring 2022 to mark the 50th anniversary of Title IX. Follow her at @LakenLitman . recommended Get more from United States Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more
