PHILADELPHIA: United States coach Jurgen Klinsmann promised his team would not sit back when they take on Paraguay here Saturday, needing only a draw to reach the Copa America Centenario quarter-finals.
Klinsmann’s men face last year’s Copa America semi-finalists at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field requiring a point to ensure their place in the last eight after a 4-0 rout of Costa Rica on Tuesday.
But Klinsmann, whose position could be in jeopardy if the US make an early exit from the tournament, said there was no chance of his team playing for a draw. “We don’t have the character to just sit back and wait for a counter-break,” Klinsmann told reporters on Friday.
“That’s not us. We have to be really involved in the game. We have to set the tone. We have to keep a high level of aggressiveness and keep the determination going from the first second of the game.”
Klinsmann, meanwhile, said he was relishing the high-stakes nature of the occasion, confident that his players would respond to the challenge just as they had done when successfully negotiating a “Group of Death” at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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