The U.S. men’s soccer team displayed many shortcomings in its loss to Colombia Friday night to open the Copa America Centenario.

For starters, the U.S. men didn’t score. They didn’t have anyone on their roster nearly as good as Real Madrid’s James Rodríguez or a handful of other Colombian players, either. But the biggest problem of all may be that they passed the ball too many times to the other team.

Of the 404 passes the U.S. attempted in its 2-0 loss, an astonishing 73, or 18%, didn’t end up where they were supposed to go. By contrast, the Colombians connected on all but 28 of their 354 passes, an incompletion rate of just 8%.

In fact, four days into this tournament that includes all 10 South American teams and the six best teams from North and Central America and the Caribbean, it appears one of the great differences between these regions is the ability to deliver a pass to its intended destination. In every game between teams from the two confederations, the South American team has had a better pass completion rate, and in all but one of those games, it hasn’t even been close.

Even Mexico was outpassed in its 3-1 defeat of Uruguay on Sunday in Arizona, where El Tri failed to complete nearly 20% of its passes, compared with 13% for Uruguay.