{"id":871605,"date":"2025-09-09T01:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/usmnt-falls-to-south-korea-marking-sixth-home-loss-of-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T01:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:12:25","slug":"usmnt-falls-to-south-korea-marking-sixth-home-loss-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/usmnt-falls-to-south-korea-marking-sixth-home-loss-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"USMNT falls to South Korea marking sixth home loss of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n\t\t<main id=\"main\"><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-748705\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" itemscope>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>The U.S. men\u2019s national team\u2019s first match after the CONCACAF Gold Cup ended in losing fashion.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea defeated the Americans 2-0 at Sports Illustrated Arena on Saturday afternoon thanks to first-half goals from Son Heung-Min and Dong-Gyeong Lee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It marked the Americans\u2019 second-straight loss and their sixth against a Top-25 nation in the past eight attempts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Son broke the deadlock in the 19th minute after being brilliantly down the left flank by Jae-Sung Lee. The former Tottenham forward celebrated his 52nd international goal, coming back to haunt his former boss Mauricio Pochettino.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Gyeong Lee would double South Korea\u2019s lead before halftime after a nice 1-2 from Son and Sung Lee led to Geyong tapping home. Son pushed a pass past Matt Freese but watched as Gyeong finished off the play for a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The USMNT created several scoring opportunities late in the match but South Korea goalkeeper Hyeon-Woo Jo was up to the task. Jo denied Chris Richards\u2019 effort in the 73rd minute before also repelling fellow substitute Folarin Balogun twice in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Jo also received help from his crossbar as the 33-year-old held on for the shutout.<\/p>\n<p>The loss marked the USMNT\u2019s sixth home loss of 2025, making only the fourth time in which the program has lost six home matches or more in a single year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino\u2019s squad will close out their September schedule on Sept. 10 in Columbus, Ohio against Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/main>\n\t<\/div>\n<p> Larry Henry Jr <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sbisoccer.com\/2025\/09\/usmnt-falls-to-south-korea-marking-sixth-home-loss-of-2025\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. men\u2019s national team\u2019s first match after the CONCACAF Gold Cup ended in losing fashion. South Korea defeated the Americans 2-0 at Sports Illustrated Arena on Saturday afternoon thanks to first-half goals from Son Heung-Min and Dong-Gyeong Lee.\u00a0 It marked the Americans\u2019 second-straight loss and their sixth against a Top-25 nation in the past<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":871606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2843,44007],"tags":[7795,44006],"class_list":{"0":"post-871605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-falls","8":"category-usmnt","9":"tag-falls","10":"tag-usmnt"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}