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[quote=Anonymous]To actually answer the question:

Because it is u20.  DPK puts young teams together starting at young ages and they train together all year.  They play systems that work with their specific group.  The players are all reasonably technical for their age.

A national team like the US brings in players who are on college and a couple pro players.  They work together a few times over the summer and in advance of the tournament, but their own seasons are on-going.

Accordingly, teams like the US play generic formations and rely on individual abilities to create chances.  A reasonably disciplined team can limit the effect of those chances.  DPK is a reasonably disciplined team.

All those advantages that come from working together for so long disappear very quickly when the competition is now also professional.  
When drawing players for a national team for the Olympics or a World Cup the competition consists of full time players who mostly can jump in and out of systems of play (super young players are an exception), and the national teams practice together way way more so they know their national teammates’ tendencies and abilities.

If you had two of the five (Yohannes, Shaw, A. Thompson, Moultrie or Barcenas) then DPK plays “park the bus” and hopes for a shootout after 120 minutes.

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