Ital, the problem is, when you say England helped out the US, no matter what your intentions are, it's going to come across as you trying to take away credit from the US. With that being said, the combination of Robert Green and England's last two results were favorable to the US. I just think that SR is upset with your word choice.
However, even if you take away the point from the England match, they still deserved to come through group play with six points, which would have been enough to move onto the knockout stage.