Costa Rica beats U.S. 4-0 in World Cup Qualifying Game; How could it…?

By Francisco Romero. – No, the headline is not wrong and yes, the score was 4-0 in favor of Costa Rica as the United States Men’s National Team fell twice in less than 5 days in CONCACAF’s World Cup qualifying game. The U.S. MNT lost to Mexico 2-1 last Friday in Columbus, Ohio.

With Tuesday’s loss the United States becomes the second team to start 0-2 in the hexagonal format since it was adopted before the 1998 World Cup.

For the Ticos the goals were scored via Johan Venegas at the 44^th minute play, Christian Bolaños at the 68^th minute and Joel Campbell finished with 2 goals at the 74^th and 78^th minutes of the game.

The U.S. MNT moves to 6-9-3 vs. Costa Rica in World Cup Qualifying and 0-9-1 all-time in qualifiers played on Costa Rican soil.

“It is not about blaming anyone of the players, it’s about it’s about taking it, swallow it, taking responsibility which I do, and find a way to get that corrected,” said U.S. MNT’s head coach Jurgen Klinsmann during a press conference after the game. “At the end of the day I said to the team that it wouldn’t be the last defeat in their careers. It is a bitter moment because we wanted to do better than what we did.”

Jozy Altidore earned his 33rd career World Cup Qualifying cap for the MNT, moving him into a tie for third all-time with DaMarcus Beasley and Tim Howard. The 27-year-old forward ends 2017 with 99 all-time appearances for the USA.

The result sees the USA finish 2016 with a 12-6-1 record.

Mexico – Panama

Mexico and Panama tied 0-0 in its second game of CONCACAF’s World Cup qualifying game; Mexico beat the United States 2-1 last Friday.

El Tri starts the qualifying round with 4 points. Mexico’s head coach Juan Carlos

Osorio stated after the game his satisfaction with the results over the last 2 games and finished up by saying that he would like to finish first in the group.