Five things for the USA to take from Chile defeat

• 3-5-2 and debutants succeed in patches


• The Jermaine Jones strategy remains a risky one


• Second half performance again a concern


• MLS weighing mixed blessing of returning national team stars

Let’s set aside the result of the Chile game for a moment. And, yes, that means setting aside attempts to calibrate the various equivalences necessary to get a true reading of two B teams going at each other in different stages of their domestic seasons. It also means setting aside the significance and subplots of the USA’s current losing streak — for a moment, anyway — and looking at the primary purpose of this particular friendly.

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