Turnovers and individual errors were punished by Turkiye, who went into the half ahead and withstood the USMNT in the second half of play. With the loss, Pochettino has also become the first USMNT coach to lose three consecutive games since Jurgen Klinsmann in 2015.

Suffering from a severe lack of first-team talent, the United States men begin their ramp-up to the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup with the first of two international friendlies, starting with a meeting against Turkey in Hartford.