What we learned from USA's qualifiers: the case for and against Pulisic


Bruce Arena will be happy after the USMNT steadied the ship with a win and a draw – and attention came back to a certain Borussia Dortmund player again

In a lot of ways Bruce Arena inherited a very generous brief from Jürgen Klinsmann. After the leaking away of the German’s authority, the two losses that opened World Cup qualifying had reduced the grander ambitions of the Klinsmann project to the stark triage mode of “getting out of the Hex”.

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