Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Matt Turner offered an apology to US fans after his team suffered a 5-1 rout at the hands of Colombia in Maryland.
It was not the preparation the US national team or Turner would have wanted ahead of the upcoming Copa America. The Reds shot-stopper was given a 3/10 in ESPN’s ratings after a “rough night at the office”.
The American was honest in his assessment when he faced reporters after Saturday’s friendly. Turner told TNT(via Pro Soccer Wire): “Obviously disappointed in the way we played, the way I played. Everybody needs to look in the mirror after that game and figure it out because obviously that’s not the level that’s required to compete.
We can’t get too hung up, we have a game in another couple of days. And it’s important for us to be able to respond. When you look forward to tournaments, it’s not always going to be perfect, and you have to figure out the ways to get the job done.
“Today we didn’t have any answers for the way Colombia changed themselves, changed the way they pressed. And they just had a different intensity about them that we didn’t have for the game.
“So it’s really, really disappointing in front of such a great crowd to perform like that, so I want to apologise to the fans as well, because that’s not what we’re about and we need to bounce back in a big way.”
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