U.S. men's national team head coach Mauricio Pochettino has defended both his player selection and the team's performance after a 2-0 loss to South Korea on Saturday, which marked his seventh loss in 17 games since taking the job less than a year ago.

Pochettino described the USMNT as "better than South Korea" in the friendly after outshooting the opponents 17-5 but the team once again looked disjointed, raising concerns about team chemistry with just nine months to go and roughly 10 friendly games left on the schedule until the World Cup. Many of those questions on Saturday were focused on defense, with Tristan Blackmon failing to impress in his debut while mainstay Chris Richards was on the bench. Pochettino said post-match that Richards arrived to camp with a small "issue" that lim

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