re: Did the USA get outplayed?

We knocked one in, then played extremely defensive and let Ghana bring it at us. We chose that over continuing to attack because Ghana's MO is in the counter when they can fly and really exploit you with their speed. They talked about that happening in the pregamed stuff on ESPN as well. It wasn't pretty but I think it was better to hunker down and let Ghana bring us their best built up attack down the entire field rather than give one or worse two up in a quick counter.

However it was very reassuring how when we needed to break out of that defensive mode, we were able to and knock another in.