usa is now the main contender for the output, given the tournament motivation, I think the United States will make every effort in order to win the match.
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After five play-dates across ten months, the CONCACAF Fourth Round of 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification comes to a close tonight in Jacksonville and Guatemala City, the venues for US vs Trinidad and Tobago and Guatemala vs St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Aside from Besler, the other big stories were Christian Pulisic netting two goals and Sacha Kljestan adding another in his return from the worldwide wilderness. And after breaking the US scoring record in World Cup qualifiers last Friday, he added to his tally yet further.
The 2018 World Cup qualifying matches continue on Tuesday when Brazil hosts Colombia at the Arena da Amazônia in Manaus. There was then a stretch during the summer where they lost all three games they played.
Pulisic joined Dortmund back in January 2015 from the US and Cameron believes the experience of growing up on his own in Europe will stand him in good stead for the rest of his career. The 26-year-old Toronto FC man quickly had another, an adroit cross from Pulisic giving him a simple task at the far post.
For the Stars and Stripes, Bobby Wood and Jozy Altidore put together fine outings against St. Vincent in attack, but two substitutes stole the show.
It wasn’t particularly special: Pulisic dribbled in to a risky space at the edge of the box, looked around, sized up the situation, and blasted a right-footed shot toward goal.
“Now going into hexagonal with a big chest, saying, ‘OK, let’s take on Mexico in the first game, ‘ with a lot of confidence and respect, obviously”, Klinsmann said.
The U.S. beat Israel in 1997, Germany in 1999, Scotland in 2012, and Nigeria in 2014.
Altidore’s second-half brace put the match comfortably away after the U.S. took a 1-0 lead into the break.
Pulisic was on the verge of scoring as he made a back post run and hit both posts with a left-footer off an Altidore cross in the 31st minute.
As the US threatened again, midfielder Sacha Kljestan blocked a clearing attempt early in the 44th minute.
His second goal was even niftier.
With his two-goal performance against Trinidad & Tobago, Altidore is now the USMNT’s leader in World Cup qualifier goals with 16, surpassing Clint Dempsey, who has the second most with 14.
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Obviously we are aware of this and we will be working on it as we head into this match. Hart added that he expects to make changes to the team for todays encounter. Costa Rica won Group B, beating second-place Panama 3-1 on two goals by Christian Bolanos and one from Ronald Matarrita. So are top scorer Clint Dempsey (irregular heartbeat) and midfield enforcer Jermaine Jones (knee), who nearly singlehandedly shut down imposing T&T forward Kenwyne Jones during the last meeting between the teams.
