CHESTER, Pa. -- A frustrated United States women's national team head coach Emma Hayes said her team was unrecognizable in its 2-1 loss to Portugal on Thursday at Subaru Park.

"I didn't recognize us," Hayes said. "We just rushed everything, we went direct. We didn't look like the team that we'd been working on, but that's what happens when you've got 113 days apart."

The loss was the third of the calendar year for the USWNT, which has only occurred four other times in the program's 40-year history. But the two losses earlier this year came at the hands of fellow world heavyweights Japan and Brazil while Hayes experimented with young players.

Hayes called Thursday's loss, the team's first against Portugal in 12 matches, the most irritating of her 18 months in charge thus far, bec

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