CHESTER, Pa. -- U.S. women's national team head coach Emma Hayes slapped the table repeatedly at Subaru Park on Thursday as she described how she felt watching her team lose to Portugal, 2-1, moments earlier.
"I was frustrated this evening because I felt like a game of a whack-a-mole," Hayes said, hitting different parts of the table to illustrate the point. "I felt like if I put something out then I was whacking that. That's how the game felt for me as a coach, and I've been doing this for so long -- I hate them games.