USA lost 5-0 to Mexico in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final at Giants Stadium yesterday. Second-half goals from Gerardo Torrado, Giovani dos Santos, Carlos Vela, Jose Castro and Guillermo Franco did the damage for the Mexicans.

US coach Bob Bradley was disappointed with the result but was delighted at the progress some of the young players in his squad had made throughout the tournament.

On seeing a lot of younger players during this tournament:

"I think we've had a good chance to see so many different players. I think we've got a good, solid nucleus, but we're always looking for players that we believe are going to move forward and help our team," Bradley said.

On allowing goals in the second half:

"The second half for us is not what we're all about. It's important we can look hard at ourselves and learn from a half like that and use it the right way."

On if the inexperience of the U.S. players factored into the result:

"The area where we didn't do well enough was our response to the first goal. I think the first half we played pretty well, and now when the second half starts you obviously want to build on that. We had one very good chance at the start of the second half when Robbie Rogers hit one over. But now, when we get down, your ability to make sure that the game doesn't become a free-for-all where the other team has all sorts of space and opportunities, where your numbers aren't good enough in the back when the ball turns over, where you lose bad balls, so there's a lot of different things there that obviously came into play. I think it's most important that we can look at those things."