The U.S. men’s national team failed to end its current winless run on Saturday in Connecticut, but remains positive heading into its final pre-CONCACAF Gold Cup match. Mauricio Pochettino’s squad suffered a 2-1 friendly loss to No. 27 ranked Turkey at Rentschler Field in the first match of a busy June schedule. Jack McGlynn’s second international goal was cancelled out by a pair of quick goals from Arda Guler and Kerem Akturkoglu, handing the Americans their third three-match losing streak in consecutive years. Tyler Adams, Haji Wright, and Quinn Sullivan were among the second-half substitutions which came close to sparking a comeback in the match while Luca De La Torre and Malik Tillman delivered positive performances. Pochettino voiced his team’s positives in the match and believed they deserved a better outcome overall. “The performance was good,” Pochettino told media postgame on Saturday. “We faced a team like Turkey, which is a very good team with the experienced players at the top. This group of players after playing together for the first time, I think we started the game so well. We played 20 minutes at a high level. We did very good things, very good things. It had an emotional impact when we conceded after we scored in the second minute, after we conceded the first, we conceded the second goal and that was difficult.“I am really sad because I think this group of players are working so hard and I think we deserved a better result today,” he added. “But if we go to only focus on the performance, I think we perform really well and now we can be focused on how we can improve on the situation and be focused only on game situations.”Pochettino doesn’t have several of his star players this summer including Christian Pulisic, Antonee Robinson, Weston McKennie, and Yunus Musah, opening the door to many fresh faces. Sullivan, Alex Freeman, and Matt Freese all earned their senior debuts in Saturday’s match while McGlynn and Max Arfsten were among the young MLS contingent to earn important minutes in their development. Despite the USMNT now being winless in their last three matches, and next set to face off with No. 20 ranked Switzerland on Tuesday, Pochettino expected some growing pains heading into the Gold Cup.“We knew that the level of the players are at different levels, that is why these two weeks are important to prepare for the Gold Cup,” Pochettino said. “I think we want to win and compete really well in the Gold Cup. And it’s going to be tough, of course it’s going to be tough. But I think what we expect is what we saw.“I think what I cannot complain about is that every single player was very connected with the team,” he added. “Even the players that didn’t play, they were helping the team, the players that were playing, knowing that maybe they have the opportunity or the chance to play in the next one and they need also the help from the teammates that they are going to play. And that is why I think the impact of the whole team, I am so happy with that.”Should the USMNT suffer defeat in Nashville on Tuesday, it will mark their first four-match losing streak since 2007.