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United States men's national soccer team forward Tim Weah apologized to fans in an Instagram story for his 18th-minute red card en route to his team's 2-1 loss to Panama in Copa América group play on Thursday.

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The red card occurred after Weah struck Panama defender Roderick Miller in the back of his head.

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Folarin Balogun put USMNT up just four minutes later with a goal. However, Panama got one back courtesy of César Blackman in the 26th minute before José Fajardo added an 83rd-minute goal for Panama to win the match.

The red card obviously changed the entire match and put the United States in a tough spot that it ultimately could not recover from.

After the game, U.S. men's national team coach Gregg Berhalter called Weah's act a "silly decision" before offering more comments (h/t ESPN's Jeff Kassouf).

"I think we had a good start to the game. We got the goal, it got called back. But the match-changing event is obviously the red card and it puts us in a tough spot but we expected that from them."

The U.S. still fought hard following the red card and nearly came away with the draw before the devastating late goal put Panama ahead.

Midfielder Tyler Adams told reporters afterward (h/t Kassouf) that Weah apologized to the team afterward but noticed the great effort as well.

"You never mean to get a red card, under no circumstances," Adams told Fox. "He's not that type of person. He apologized to the team.

"And respect to the rest of the team because they fought for every single ball, every single duel, every single minute. We still created chances after going down to 10 men so it shows our quality, and all to play for in the last game."

Weah's red card is costly for a few reasons. For starters, he's out for the team's final group match against Uruguay, the top team in the quartet.

Second, the United States now finds itself in a position where they very well may need to win versus Uruguay just to finish top two and advance to the knockout round. The U.S. will be underdogs in that matchup, and losing Weah makes it all the more harder.

That game will take place on Monday at 9 p.m. ET.