DALLAS — United States men’s national team defender Tim Ream said his team must set the tempo early in Sunday’s Copa América opener against Bolívia.
“We have to come out with an intensity, with a desire to impose ourselves on the game and make sure that we’re the ones that are doing the right things and creating the feel and the intensity of the games,” Ream told reporters Thursday at the Cotton Bowl. “It’s going to be important for us to do that from the first minute. Obviously, we don’t want to have anything happen like [against] Jamaica, where you’re scrambling for the rest of the game.”
That Jamaica game was the Concacaf Nations League semifinal in March. The USMNT conceded in the first minute and equalized in second-half stoppage time before scoring twice in extra time to advance to the final, which the Americans won.
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