Doug McIntyre
Soccer Journalist
America males’s nationwide group beat Haiti 2-1 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Sunday to complete the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup group stage with three wins from three video games.
Malik Tillman opened the scoring for the Individuals early within the first half on Sunday. An error by U.S. keeper Matt Freese gifted the Haitians the equalizer simply 9 minutes later, however Patrick Agyemang put the hosts again in entrance with a quarter-hour left to play.
“I feel we confirmed an awesome battle at present,” Tillman instructed FOX Sports activities’ Jenny Taft afterward. “We’re pleased to complete the group with three wins.”
The USMNT will play Costa Rica, which completed because the runner-up to Mexico in Group A, in subsequent weekend’s quarterfinal.
Listed here are three fast ideas on Sunday’s match.
A businesslike efficiency from the U.S.
With the USMNT already certified for the quarterfinals, coach Mauricio Pochettino made 4 adjustments to the beginning lineup that beat Trinidad and Tobago and Saudi Arabia within the first two group stage video games.
The transfer didn’t adversely affect the Individuals’ cohesion; they began on the entrance foot for the third straight recreation and went forward on a well-worked assault completed by Tillman, who scored his third objective of the event off a pinpoint cross from Brenden Aaronson — one of many 4 new starters.
Freese’s gaffe disrupted that momentum and gave the bodily guests a spark, although that pale rapidly because the match settled right into a slog. Nonetheless, the U.S. caught a second wind within the second half; Tillman had two targets disallowed earlier than Agyemang lastly potted the winner off a ravishing go by John Tolkin, who made his first begin instead of Max Arfsten.
Malik TIllman stars once more
Tillman continues to be the most efficient and spectacular American this summer season, throughout which the German-born attacker is getting his first actual run of enjoying time since becoming a member of this system three years in the past.
All three of Tillman’s worldwide targets have come on this Gold Cup. Off the sphere, the 23-year-old has additionally endeared himself to Pochettino and his workers, and the PSV man has taken full benefit of the chance introduced by the absence of longtime first-choice wingers Christian Pulisic and Tim Weah, plus (dare we point out) Gio Reyna.
The story of this summer season has but to be written for Tillman and his group, nonetheless. Now he has an opportunity to make an excellent larger impression within the win-or-go-home contests to come back.
What’s subsequent for the USMNT?
A tie would have been sufficient for the U.S. to high Group D, because the Saudis tied T&T on Saturday in a match performed concurrently. The Individuals completed an ideal 3-0 in a Gold Cup group stage.
They prevented blood rival Mexico in subsequent Sunday’s quarterfinal, however the Ticos current the sternest problem but for Pochettino’s squad. As promising as this Gold Cup has been for the U.S. thus far, the true assessments are nonetheless to come back.
Doug McIntyre is a soccer reporter for FOX Sports activities who has lined United States males’s and ladies’s nationwide groups at FIFA World Cups on 5 continents. Comply with him @ByDougMcIntyre.
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