I get how expectations vs. group and all that. And knowing that I know jack #### about this stuff I'm still not impressed.
Never felt this team was in control of any of the games and only manufactured chances when put on their backs.
If this thing didn't have the goalie of a lifetime they would have been out of it before Germany.
Ultimately I don't see this as anything but a failure.
that is fine. it is your opinion.
Most people understand how enormous underdogs the US were in every game but the Ghana game.
Portugal, Germany and Belgium have multiple single players with valuations higher than the entire US team.
How one can claim failure when they went further then most experts felt they should have is a strange take on this situation.
Did you come in the tournament thinking the US were one of the better teams or something? If so then I can understand the failure item. This US came in as a lower middle of the road team in the 32 teams.
I think confusing the term "not impressed" with "failure" is where things are going wrong. You have every right to be unimpressed but failure by definition means that you had expectations beyond what most did.