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Tournament soccer is officially underway this weekend with both the FIFA Club World Cup and the Concacaf Gold Cup, both of which come with plenty of questions for the teams and tournament organizers alike.
From the outside, playing the Gold Cup with a depleted roster could seem wasteful, but the USMNT coach sees upside
Tillman took home the match ball after an influential display that saw him dictate the pace of the game from his No. 10 position. In addition to his two goals, Tillman had a game-high four key passes. It was the kind of display PSV fans have grown accustomed to seeing, and USMNT fans have been longing for.
Turnovers and individual errors were punished by Turkiye, who went into the half ahead and withstood the USMNT in the second half of play. With the loss, Pochettino has also become the first USMNT coach to lose three consecutive games since Jurgen Klinsmann in 2015.
The USMNT snapped a four-game losing streak with an emphatic 5-0 win over the overmatched Caribbean side, as Malik Tillman led the way with a first-half brace. Patrick Agyemang also scored in the first half before Brenden Aaronson and Haji Wright bagged late goals off the bench.
Pochettino's team came in to the game on the back of a loss to Türkiye over the weekend—a third consecutive loss in all competitions for the USMNT at the time. Switzerland posed a different, yet just as difficult challenge as the Argentine looked to get his team ready for the Concacaf Gold Cup.