U.S. beat Curacao 1-0 to move into Gold Cup semis
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(Reuters) – The United States reached a Gold Cup semi-finals on Sunday after Weston McKennie’s first-half idea gave a fortifying champions a 1-0 win over Curacao in Philadelphia.
With 25 mins left Christian Pulisic sent an inch-perfect cranky to a behind post where McKennie glanced a header home from tighten range.
“He can take players on and he likes to cut in a lot and we like to make late runs into a box,” pronounced male of a compare McKennie of Pulisic.
“So we always tell any other whenever he cuts in, demeanour for me during a behind post or demeanour for me inside a box, since we am going to run.
“It’s a tie that we are building and improving on and hopefully in a subsequent games it will be even better.”
Ranked 79th in a world, 49 places behind a United States, Curacao were not overawed by their opponents and U.S. goalkeeper Zack Steffen had to be on his toes to repudiate Gevaro Nepumoceno on some-more than one occasion.
At a other end, Eloy Room finished several stops for Curacao and captain Cuco Martina suspicion his group had finished themselves proud.
“We fought like lions,” he said. “We did all to win. The chances that we got, we didn’t score.”
The win for a United States sets adult a semi-final opposite Jamaica, runners-up during a final dual Gold Cups, in Nashville on Wednesday.
Mexico will play Haiti in a other almost in Glendale, Arizona a day before.
The final will be hold in Chicago on Jul 7.
Reporting by Andrew Downie; Editing by Peter Rutherford
Article source: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/mbappe-messi-cavani-and-schmeichel-star
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