Weston McKenzie, The North American team, lost 2-0 to the Japanese in Germany (Reuters)
Two months before playing the Qatar World Cup 2022, the United States National Team sets off the alarms due to the bad times they are experiencing.
And it is that the performance of the team led by Gregg Berhalter is not the best, and doubts grow towards the World Cup, which lost in a friendly match 2-0 against Japan.
However, the biggest concern for the 'Stars and Stripes is the offence, who finished the match at Dusseldorf's Merkur Spiel-Arena with two shots, but none on target.
Berhalter still can't find the right pieces in the attack when Christian Pulisic and Thimothy Weah are missing (out due to injury), where Jesús Ferreira was in the lead.
Such was the wrong moment of the North American team that even one of its most significant figures failed: Weston McKennie.
It was the 24th minute when the Juventus midfielder missed a pass, so the Japanese headed for Turner's goal, and the Eintracht footballer was defined with a low shot.
Even though the 'Stars and Stripes' dominated much of the game (57% possession), they never managed to decipher the wall that Japan put up.
And until sunset, the board was sentenced to the Asians, when Mitoma took McKennie and defined a cross when he entered the area.
The United States will have one last test before the World Cup next Tuesday, September 27, when they face Saudi Arabia.
While they will open their participation in Qatar 2022 against Wales (November 21), England will follow (November 25), and they will close the Group Stage against Iran (November 29).
Alignment Japan: Gonda (Schmidt, m.46); Tomiyasu, Yoshida, Nakayama, Sakai (Hiroki Ito, d.46); Junya Ito (Doan, m.68), Morita, Endo, Kubo (Mitoma, m.68); Kamada (Haraguchi, d.86), Maeda (Yamane, d.46)
USA Lineup: Turner, Dest (Cannon, m.46), Zimmerman, Long, Vines; Adams, McKennie (Tillman, m.67), De la Torre (Johnny, m.67); Aaronson, Reyna (Morris, d.46), Ferreira (Sargent, d.46)
Goals: 1-0, m.26: Kamada; 2-0, m.88: My home
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