USA U18 Coach Lewis Finds Lessons in Tour

The USA forwards were very good against Uruguay and Lewis wants to see the same this time around. But he also thinks they can vary things up a bit.

"Our collision dominance in attack was high, but our focus going into the next game will be our depth on our shape to allow us time to make good attacking decisions," continued the coach. "In defence, our ability to exit and control them defensively multi-phase was also very impressive and we forced them to make errors in the right areas."

Lapses in concentration allowed Uruguay to take the game in the end, and the players are learning from that. 

"This has given our players a valuable education and experience on how clinical international rugby is," said Lewis. "What was most pleasing was our grit to stay in the fight until the very end, and we even created some chances later on that could have put us in scoring opportunities to win the game."

So an almost perfect result for a coach, a close loss in which a team can take confidence and also some harsh lessons. We'll see now how they transfer those lessons to the game against Brazil.