Lippi has a more mature and expert team than ours. We're trying out new players and looking for an identity.
This team is strong enough to overcome such setbacks. It's stable enough to put it behind. With positive thinking, there will be no problems. We have to look ahead.
We want to finally beat a top team -- that would give us a boost. We will now concentrate fully on the match. Everything else is secondary.
The requirement that a national team player has to be first-choice on his team is a thing of the past.
At halftime I told my team that we really had to put the pressure on the Americans. This was a nice result and it was actually fun watching my team play.