{"id":59857,"date":"2025-10-24T03:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/hayes-furious-after-us-defeat-to-portugal-i-didnt-recognize-the-team\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:11:29","slug":"hayes-furious-after-us-defeat-to-portugal-i-didnt-recognize-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/hayes-furious-after-us-defeat-to-portugal-i-didnt-recognize-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayes, furious after US defeat to Portugal: “I didn’t recognize the team”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emma Hayes: “I didn’t recognize my team” after the defeat against Portugal<\/h2>\n\nThe coach of the United States women’s team, Emma Hayes, expressed her frustration after the 2-1 defeat against Portugal at Subaru Park. Hayes described the performance as unrecognizable and criticized the team’s lack of cohesion and game rhythm.\n\n\n

I didn’t recognize my team. We rushed everything; we were direct. We don’t look like the team we’ve been working on.<\/p>Emma Hayes<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThis defeat represents the team’s third of the year, a situation that has only occurred four times in the program’s 40-year history. The other two defeats were against Japan and Brazil, at a time when Hayes was testing with young players.\n\nHayes described the defeat to Portugal, the first in 12 matches, as the most irritating in her 18 months in charge of the team due to the way they played.\n\n\n

I felt like I was in a game of ‘whack-a-mole’. I felt that if I brought something up, I was hitting it down. That’s how I felt the game as a coach, and I’ve been doing this for a long time. I hate those matches.<\/p>Emma Hayes<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe coach highlighted that the team failed in defensive synchronization and did not win individual duels. In addition, both Portuguese goals came after corner kicks, something she attributed to the almost four months of inactivity between international windows.\n\nMidfielder Sam Coffey, for her part, did not want to use the lack of playing time as an excuse.\n\n\n

There are a million excuses that could be made, and we are not going to make them. Saying that we haven’t been together or that we are young or whatever, I think it’s a cheap excuse. The level of this team is to assume when you are not good enough and you are not playing up to the standard of the badge. There is a standard of victory, and that surpasses all those things.<\/p>Sam Coffey<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nUSWNT coach Emma Hayes reacts on the sidelines during her team’s loss to Portugal in a friendly.<\/em>\n\nThe American team started the match well, with a goal by Rose Lavelle at 35 seconds, although Hayes regretted that the team did not maintain the pace and did not generate more opportunities.\n\n\n

It seemed like a team in pre-season, so we have to let it go. But as I always say, don’t make it a habit. How we present ourselves tomorrow is important.<\/p>Emma Hayes<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe players echoed these words. Lavelle and Coffey mentioned too many individual efforts, while captain Lindsey Heaps added that “sometimes it seemed like we were on islands”.\n\nHayes praised Portugal and reminded her players not to underestimate their European rivals, who have more tournament experience and “know how to close out matches.” However, the American coach considered that her team failed in several aspects.\n\n\n

The reality is that he is not good enough for the team, nor for any individual. I thought the team was bad tonight, and I told the players afterwards, that, look, everyone might want to try to solve a difficult game sometimes when it’s not going very well. The problem with that is that the team wins games.<\/p>Emma Hayes<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe USWNT will have the opportunity to seek revenge against Portugal on Sunday in East Hartford, Connecticut.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emma Hayes: “I didn’t recognize my team” after the defeat against Portugal The coach of the United States women’s team, Emma Hayes, expressed her frustration after the 2-1 defeat against Portugal at Subaru Park. Hayes described the performance as unrecognizable and criticized the team’s lack of cohesion and game rhythm. I didn’t recognize my team. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2642,1509,969,2627],"class_list":{"0":"post-59857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-emma-hayes","9":"tag-loss","10":"tag-portugal","11":"tag-uswnt"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}