CHESTER, Pa. -- U.S. women's national team head coach Emma Hayes slapped the table repeatedly at Subaru Park on Thursday as she described how she felt watching her team lose to Portugal 2-1 moments earlier.

"I was frustrated this evening because I felt like a game of a Whac-A-Mole," Hayes said, hitting different parts of the table to illustrate the point. "I felt like if I put something out then I was whacking that. That's how the game felt for me as a coach, and I've been doing this for so long -- I hate them games."

Portugal scored both goals on corner kicks -- "no coach likes conceding on f---ing set pieces ever," Hayes eventually said with a smile as she walked away from the news conference, drawing a laugh from the room -- and the U.S. struggled to connect with and without the

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