USMNT survives heart-stopping penalty shootout thriller vs Costa Rica to reach Gold Cup semifinal

The United States men s national soccer crew is moving on to the semifinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup after a dramatic penalty shootout against Costa Rica The match was deadlocked at two goals apiece after -plus minutes leading to the penalty shootout that had all the dramatics to keep everyone on the edge of their seats to see who would be moving on After the USMNT s Tyler Adams and Costa Rica s Alonso Martinez buried their attempts to begin the penalty shootout goalkeeper Matt Freese from the U S made a tremendous save on Juan Pablo Vargas shot to give his band the upper hand CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COMThis came after Malik Tillman made up for a missed penalty shot during regular time that could ve been the game-winner perfectly placing his shot to his left past Costa Rican legend Keylor Navas But Sebastian Berhalter the son of former USMNT head coach Gregg Berhalter evened things up when he sent his attempt flying over the net Santiago van der Putten s follow-up shot for Costa Rica got past Freese despite the goalkeeper guessing the right way After Alex Freeman and Jefferson Brenes made their shots respectively Freese got yet another save on Francisco Calvo s attempt giving John Tolkin the shot to end it all for the USMNT But Navas came up clutch as he leapt to his left and swatted away Tolkin s shot An extra round was needed but Freese was purely locked in He was able to stop back-to-back shots this time saving Andy Rojas s shot Again the USMNT had a chance to end the match and Damion Downs was given the chance Navas wasn t able to guess right this time as Downs went left and celebrated promptly as the ball hit the back of the net During the minutes before the shootout there were fireworks as well starting with Los Ticos getting on the board first It was Calvo who got the best of Freese with a penalty shot in the th minute However the UMSNT rallied toward the end of the first half with Diego Luna scoring in the rd minute and Max Arfsten following it up in the th minute Then in the st minute midway through the second half Martinez came sliding in after a rebound off Freese to tie the contest up But the USMNT will be the ones moving on to face Guatemala on Wednesday in the semifinal to determine who has a spot in the Gold Cup Final The other semifinal is Mexico against Honduras which will be played after the U S and Guatemala Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter