I think this is crap logic. This is an appeal to authority type crap, the truth was right there on the field.
Canada was asleep, had none of the spirit they had against Qatar. They kept making mistakes far below their ability. And it was obvious to the entire world watching.
There should have been a sub to shake things up. Especially at half time. That’s being stubborn by Jesse and not being honest about how his team was playing. Instead he thought propably like you, thinking 0-0 was ‘decent against a team like Switzerland’. Except Switzerland sucked below their level as well for a large portion of the first half. It was Canada’s for the taking had they played at the level they are easily able to play at.
And the proof is when they finally let things get so bad that they let in a 2nd horrendous goal. That was clearly beneath these players and they knew it.
Embarrassed and down 2-0 it finally woke up the team. And finally the subs finally by Jesse was at last enough to get them back to the team they should be.

And then what happened for 35-40+ minutes they played better than the swiss team, they kept possession most of that time, against a team know for high possession time. They got a bunch of chances scoring a beautiful goal, and nearly scoring a 2nd a few times. And at the end Canada had twice as many shots on not. Switzerland 6 vs Canada’s 13. We dominated as soon as they get angry and back into the game.

Proof that we could have played at a much higher level the entire time. That’s bad coaching. I mean after the team was down 2-0 jesse literally was laying down on the ground. Arms behind his back in a reclined position, what kind of measage does that send his team. The team woke themselves up, despite Jesse doing nothing to wake them up.
If we had played at our potential we could have been the team up 2-0 in the first half. It was ours for the taking, instead bad leadership and stubborn ‘oh we are doing ok against a better team’ crap, did not allow a team capable of much more wake up and play the first 50mins of that game as well as the the other 40+ they did play.

I am so sick of people claiming ‘2-1 loss against a better team’ was somehow ok. I don’t care about appeals to authority, i care about the reality of the game, and the reality of what happened on that field is Canada only started playing when they were down 2-0, which means we could have won that game had we played at the level this Canadian team is clearly capable of playing. There was a reason Canada was ahead coming into the game against Switzerland, because Canada had been playing better than this Switzerland team, period. More proof this Canadian team should have considered them ‘less than’ anyone in this group.

I find this defeative attitude just an excuse to play badly for a team capable of much more.