US take 5-0 lead in Nations League quarter-final
Hall, 18, scores again as Pochettino prepares for exit
Pulisic goes into fourth on all-time US scoring list
When Mauricio Pochettino named his US roster for the November window, few could have expected that the games would double as his brief lame-duck era. A week of camp instead brought constant media coverage, efficient negotiations and questions about the future of the national team. Come Wednesday, his day job will take him far from the federation’s headquarters in Fayetteville, Georgia, as he hopes to make sense of Manchester United.
Saturday finally allowed Pochettino and his players to get on with the intended purpose of this window, and they took to the Concacaf Nations League quarter-finals with aplomb. The US opened their two-leg series against Haiti with a dominant 6-0 victory in front of a considerably pro-Haitian crowd in Miami. Auston Trusty provided the first half’s only goal before Julian Hall, Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie and Folarin Balogun contributed to the eventual rout.