USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter made several tactical tweaks that blunted the threat posed by England's talent-laden XI. FIFAWorldCup
"Obviously it worked," said McKennie, one of his side's top performers."You guys saw, we had the ball often, they weren't able to really break through so many times, I don't think we gave them a lot of chances to get in behind and to get goal scoring opportunities. And it worked for us as well, we were able to break them down, have space out wide."
"We wanted to highlight our defensive shape that would change from a 4-4-2 to a 4-3-3. If we did that effectively, we wanted to hit them in transition, offensive transition, and we think we gave them some problems in that," explained Berhalter in his postgame press conference. "It was a really tough opponent. They defended incredibly well," said Southgate after his side were largely outplayed and out-thought in a game that boosts U.S. confidence ahead of a must-win against Iran."To come off the high of the performance the other day [a 6-2 win over Iran] and find that same energy, level of quality, was always going to be a challenge. Their front six make it so difficult to play through and get at their defense.
"That was something that we saw with their defending in the last game and we wanted to key in on it. Basically triple-stacking the right side of the field, Serge [Sergiño Dest] getting the ball, being able to bypass his defender to find Weston free and then [English left back] Luke Shaw would have a decision to make," Berhalter said.
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