You're either trolling, incompetent, or have the reading comprehension of dirt. I'll spell it out for you in case it's the second.

"First of all" you were responding to another poster's post about the Gold Cup, not about the game tonight. My response to you was about the situation in the Gold Cup, not about the game tonight. You seem to think that the both the person you were responding to and the person who responded to you were talking about today's loss instead of the situation in the Gold Cup which led to this match even being played at all. You were mistaken. If you weren't aware that the game tonight was not part of the Gold Cup, now you should be. You're welcome.

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There is so much irony in this.

In what way were what words used to convey some meaning that was the opposite of their literal meaning with regards to the Gold Cup situation that was being discussed? I'm assuming that you're referring to the topic of officiating in the Gold Cup?

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I'll take advice from a world cup winning player any time over I don't know...you?

Okay, the quotes by Klinsmann are posted in this thread two posts above your own post. They concern the same Gold Cup competition and the same officiating that we were discussing and that you found to be ironic. Do you now also think that the USMNT won't advance because of "whiny" managers like him?

As to your other salient contributions to the thread, yes, we're still aware that players play for both club and country and that they can get injured. That's why, for example, Johannsson was not available for this match. Thanks again for pointing that out.

Your quote pertaining to this game was "A shite Mexican team?? I honestly don't understand why people feel like this game was going to be a breeze." But you were responding to someone who was talking about the Mexico team at the Gold Cup which was struggling in that tournament and which required extremely questionable calls to advance, not the team competing in the match tonight. I'll spell this out for you since you seemed to be confused before. Had the US won the Gold Cup, the game tonight would not have been played because the US would have already qualified for the Confederations Cup. The Gold Cup games were meaningful because of this. This is not "blam[ing] today's loss on a previous game" as you somehow think, but pointing out that the manager essentially had two chances to qualify the team for the Confederations Cup and was unable to succeed at either attempt.

In addition to those stellar contributions to the thread, you're calling me out as a "terrible" and "whiny" fan and saying that I'm blaming today's loss on a previous game.

Go back. Read the original post you replied to, your own post, and my post in response to that. Read them slowly. Read them again. Get someone to help you with whichever words or phrases give you problems. Draw yourself an outline to try and help yourself understand. It's okay to use either the big pencil or the crayons, whichever you need. Once you're done, either 1) quote the previous posts and bold the parts that pertain to tonight's match and/or state that the US team sucks or 2) come back and admit your incompetence. I'll be waiting with bated breath.