El Salvador v. USMNT2022-23 Concacaf Nations League Group Stage Match № 2 14 June 2022 Estadio Cuscatlan; San Salvador, El Salvador Coverage before the game: 9:30 pm ET on FS1Kickoff: 10:00 pm ET on FS1, Univision, TUDNSocial Media: @USMNT on Twitter and Instagram; American Football on Facebook, the US football app
Tonight USMNT Launch of XI in El Salvador: 18-Ethan Horvat, 4-Tyler Adams, 5-Anthony Robinson, 6-Yunus Musa, 10-Christian Pulisic, 11-Brendan Aaronson, 15-Aaron Long, 19-Ha20 Cameron Carter -Vickers, 21-Tim Weah, 22-Reggie Cannon
Substitutes: 1-Matt Turner, 12-Sean Johnson, 2-DeAndre Yedlin, 3-Eric Palmer-Brown, 7-Paul Ariola, 8-Weston McKenney, 9-Jesus Ferreira, 13-Jordan Morris, 13-Jordan Morris, 14-Luca de la Torre , 16-Joe Scully, 17-Christian Roldan, 23-Kelin Acosta
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- USMNT Starting XI Cap Numbers (including this match): Christian Pulisic (51), Tyler Adams (30), Antonee Robinson (29), Reggie Cannon (27), Aaron Long (27), Tim Weah (25), Brenden Aaronson 22), Yunus Musa (19), Cameron Carter-Vickers (11), Ethan Horvat (8), Hadji Wright (1)
- USMNT Starting XI Cap Numbers in official competition (including this match): Christian Pulisic (37), Reggie Cannon (16), Antonee Robinson (16), Tyler Adams (15), Brenden Aaronson (14), Aaron Long (12), Tim Weah (11), Yunus Musa (11), Cameron Carter-Vickers (2), Ethan Horvath (2), Hadji Wright (1)
- USMNT Starting XI Cap Numbers in the Concacaf Nations League (including this match): Reggie Cannon (6), Aaron Long (5), Christian Pulisic (5), Brenden Aaronson (3), Antonee Robinson (3), Tyler Adams (2) , Cameron Carter-Vickers (2), Ethan Horvat (2), Tim Wea (2), Yunus Musa (1), Hadji Wright (1)
- Tonight’s XI launch has an average age of 24 years and 26 days.
- The USMNT team has an average of 22 matches and 11 participations in official competitions.
- Greg Berhalter is making seven changes to the USMNT lineup, which kicked off CNL’s start against Grenada on Friday, with Reggie Cannon, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Aaron Long and Anthony Robinson on the sidelines.
- Goalkeeper Ethan Horvat won his first appearance after supporting the United States to a 4-0 victory in a friendly against Costa Rica on June 9, 2021 in Sandy, Utah. This is the second participation for Croatia in an official competition after his heroic meeting as a deputy in the final victory of the League of Nations against Mexico on June 6, 2021 in Denver.
- Striker Hadji Wright won his first start, his first official race and his first visit to USMNT tonight.
- Christian Pulisic is captain of the team for the 10th time tonight. Pulisic (23.74) is the second youngest player in the modern era (1990-present) to captain the USMNT 10 times, after only Tony Meola (23.18), who did so on April 29, 1992 in Republic of Ireland.
The youngest to captain USMNT 10 times (modern era)
Player
Date / Opponent
Age of 10th Captain
Cap №
Tony Meola
April 29, 1992 in Ireland
23.18
45
Christian Pulisic
June 14, 2022 in El Salvador
23.74
51
Peter Vermes
1 June 1991 v. Ireland
24.53
35
London Donovan
March 28, 2007 against Guatemala
25.07
88
Claudio Reina
June 11, 2000 v. Mexico
26.89
74
- Aaron Long becomes the only player to start each of the four US games in June.
- The top scorer in the 1-0 WCQ victory over El Salvador on January 27, left-back Anthony Robinson continues to be the only player to appear in all 10 games in 2022.
- Three starters appeared on their last US visit to El Salvador, a 0-0 draw to open the 2022 World Cup qualifiers on September 2, 2021. Brendan Aaronson and Tyler Adams started the match and Anthony Robinson came off the bench in the 64th. that minute.
- Five starters took part in the 1-0 home victory against El Salvador, played on January 27 in Columbus, Ohio. Anthony Robinson, who scored the only goal of the match, as well as Tyler Adams, Christian Pulisic and Tim Weah started, while Brendan Aaronson replaced Pulisic in the 65th minute.
- With teams limited to 23 players, defenders George Bello, Walker Zimmerman and midfielder Malik Tillman are not part of tonight’s squad. Teams are allowed to make five shifts at three different times.
- The United States is 19-1-6 for all time against El Salvador, has a 12-0-4 advantage in matches played in official competitions and is 2-1-4 away against Los Cuscatlecos.
- A victory tonight will guarantee the United States a place in the top two in League of Nations A, Group D, and will in turn win a place for the USMNT in the 2023 Concacaf Gold Cup.
- Cesar Ramos from Mexico is the referee of the match tonight. USMNT is 3-3-2 in matches led by Ramos, the last of which was the qualification for the World Cup as a guest in Canada on January 30, 2022.
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