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United States head coach Mauricio Pochettino has now lost four matches in a row following a 4-0 … More friendly defeat to Switzerland on Tuesday night. Getty Images Even accounting for the far-from-first-string lineup that Mauricio Pochettino’s U.S. men’s national team fielded in Tuesday’s 4-0 defeat to Switzerland, the optics were troubling. A Swiss team less than a year removed from a Euro 2024 quarterfinal appearance badly exposed a U.S. side that looked like it had barely trained together and sprinted out to their final margin of victory by the 36th minute. Had it been a tournament setting where goal differential mattered, the European visitors might have been even more cruel on their hosts in search of more goals after halftime. When it was all over, the Americans had suffered a fourth consecutive defeat – and arguably their worst yet – for a first time since 2007, under a star manager who was supposed to provide the solution for a team most believed had underachieved at the 2024 Copa America under previous boss Gregg Berhalter. And amid anger and disbelief, there may also be a sense of acceptance among the U.S. fan base that maybe this generation of players we once believed was uniquely talented just isn’t actually that good. In the long view, perhaps that’s the best possible development for this group a year out from the 2026 FIFA World Cup on home soil. History of Underdog Triumphs Through the modern era of the program (from the 1990 World Cup onward), USMNT has always functioned best as an underdog without weighty expectations. The 1994 team also dealt with the pressure of being a host nation, but did so as decided Cinderellas in a group that included Colombia, Romania and Switzerland. Even less was expected of the 2002 group that…

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