Coming from a different coach, after a different result, Mauricio Pochettino’s comments following his team’s 5-1 hamblasting of Uruguay last month could have been dismissed as empty bluster. “I hate that ‘no regular players’ [question],” he said at his post-game press conference. “What does that mean? It's the USA playing. It's the national team. "Stop with that mindset...I hate to talk in this way. It's so disrespectful.