U.S. star player Landon Donovan took the positives out of Sunday's Confederations Cup loss. Despite being disappointed to be on the losing side after Brazil came back from 2-0 down to beat the U.S.A 3-2 in South Africa, he is confident his team has learned some valuable lessons.

Speaking after the game Donovan said, "It's disappointing because we started the game really well and put them on their heels which most teams don't do against Brazil.

"Though they had some chances, we went into the half at 2-0 and felt good about it. Then, a series of good plays by them - maybe we fell a little bit asleep - and a good goal and they're right back in the game.

"So from that point on it was going to be tough. They put us under a lot of pressure and eventually they just wore us down.

"You don't want today to damper what we did through the whole tournament. I'm very proud of everybody and I think we all feel good about what we did. Unfortunately today, we just ran up against a machine and they just kept going and found a way to win. But, I think we're all really proud of how we did.

"We're making progress and we said after the Egypt game it's not good enough to just show up against Spain and lay down and say 'Oh, we made it to the semis.' We proved ourselves and did well and today we said the same thing.

"It's not good enough to just show up and get beat the way we did last week against Brazil. So from that standpoint, we did an incredible job of getting the first two goals. But again, they were just too powerful in the end.

"This is a massive learning experience and you always hope to do the most learning when you win but you probably learn more by losing. If we're smart and we take what we should from this game, we can progress; and that's what we're trying to do."