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It took 17 senior national-team appearances spanning over 12 years, but the United States men's national team has now lost with Nick Rimando in goal. The 35-year-old Real Salt Lake goalkeeper went the full 90 minutes in Wednesday's 3-2 loss at Chile in an international friendly.

Rimando, Major League Soccer's all-time regular-season shutout king, entered the match 13-0-3 during his previous 16 USMNT caps. But a furious second-half performance by La Roja took advantage of a gassed American side before Mark González buried the eventual game-winner in the 75th minute.

Midfielder Marco Medel took a shot from distance that Rimando pushed away, but González out-paced two U.S. defenders to strike the ball with his left foot the far post and in. It was his second goal of the night. He equalized for the home side in the 66th minute on a similar shot and angle.

After a bright first half experimenting in a new 3-5-2 formation under head coach Jurgen Klinsmann, the U.S. fell off substantially in the second frame. Which seems to be a recurring issue. According to ESPN stat guru Paul Carr, the USMNT has been outscored 9-0 in the second half of its last five matches — all of which are friendlies.

The match started with a bang for Klinsmann's side. Orlando City's Brek Shea finished a fantastic over-the-top ball played by Sporting Kansas City center back Matt Besler. Shea, who recently returned to MLS from Stoke City, waited for the ball to settle before slicing at it with his left foot and into the far post. The goal put the Americans up 1-0 in just the sixth minute of play.

It didn't take long for Chile to pull even. Roberto Gutiérrez drifted unmarked between Besler and Jermaine Jones — who Klinsmann continues to experiment with as a central defender — before easily finishing off a cross from González to pull event at 1-1.

There were plenty of mistakes and missteps throughout the night for the U.S., ones that will demand attention no matter which formation they choose to adopt as they progress further in 2015. But there will be highlights, like Jozy Altidore's 31st-minute goal to put the U.S. up 2-1.

Toronto FC's newest Designated Player and striker, back from the doldrums of Sunderland in the English Premier League, finished off a phenomenal sequence started by DeAndre Yedlin. The new Tottenham signing took a throw in and launched for New York City FC's Mix Diskerud. The ball was played back to Yedlin who split defenders and played the ball back toward Diskerud in the box. After one touch, he laid it toward an unmarked Altidore who finished to the far post with his right foot.

The goal was Altidore's fifth for the U.S. in his last 11 matches with the national team.

Rimando had seven saves Wednesday night against Chile, including a crucial 1-on-1 stop on Diego Valdés in the 37th minute of play. His first senior-team cap came in Nov. 2002 when he and fellow goalkeeper Tim Howard earned a combined shutout against El Salvador at RKF Stadium in Washington D.C. After earning a shutout in a 2-0 victory over Wales on May 26, 2003, Rimando had a six-and-a-half-year national-team hiatus before returning to action in Feb. 2010 for a 2-1 win over El Salvador. He was the third goalkeeper at the World Cup in Brazil in 2014.

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Of note: RSL midfielder Luis Gil was not in uniform Wednesday night. The 21-year-old was one of three Americans taken to Chile who did not dress, including Colorado midfielder Dillon Serna and Sporting Kansas City goalkeeper Jon Kempin.

The U.S. will return stateside and prepare for its second friendly related to this January national-team camp when it faces Panama on Sunday, Feb. 8, at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif. The match will be an ESPN broadcast and will be shown at 2 p.m. locally.

-Chris Kamrani

Twitter: @chriskamrani