On this day in 1997, a qualifying tough loss in Costa Rica

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🇺🇸 #USMNT 2-3 🇨🇷 Costa Rica

📍 San Jose

👔 Sampson

📋 World Cup Q

Always tough on the road in #concacaf and this loss was no different. 1-1-1 to start qualifying.

25’

Eric Wynalda equalizes with his 30th international goal.

67’

The US has to equalize again, this time through Roy Lassiter.

The striker picks off this lazy pass, beats his defender and rips a shot across his body into the net.

76’

Ronald Gomez’s winner.

Scorers: Hernán Medford 10′, Mauricio Solís 32′, Rónald Gómez 76′ — Eric Wynalda 25′, Roy Lassiter 67′

CRC: Hermidio Barrantes, Hárold Wallace, Luis Marín, Austín Berry, Rónald González, Rónald Gómez, Benjamín Mayorga, Hernán Medford (Jafet Soto 61′), Wílmer López, Mauricio Solís, Paulo Wanchope (Rónald Chavez 75′)

USA: Kasey Keller, Anthony Sanneh, Eddie Pope (Mike Burns 64′), Alexi Lalas, Jeff Agoos, Cobi Jones, Claudio Reyna (Peter Vermes 75′), John Harkes, Thomas Dooley, David Wagner (Roy Lassiter 46′), Eric Wynalda

Cards: Wílmer López [Y 82′] – Anthony Sanneh [Y 17′], Eric Wynalda [Y 26′], Cobi Jones [Y 85′]

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