The U.S. men’s soccer team would be nuts to not keep giving Pepi all the chances it can.
sparking the U.S. to a badly needed win
in Honduras, the teenaged goal-scoring phenom buried a pair of chances early in the second half to put a nervy start behind the U.S. men’s national team and help the Americans cruise to a 2–0 win Thursday against Jamaica. It is the second-straight Man of the Match performance for Pepi, in the El Paso native’s second-ever appearance for the United States. It’s also the second game his team has won in World Cup qualifying. Correlation and causation unite.
For a moment, it looked like Pepi was going to pick up right where he left off against Honduras. In the game’s first minute, he played the pass that winger Paul Arriola ran onto before getting dragged down from behind by Jamaica’s Kemar Lawrence. It probably should have been a red card, and it proved that Lawrence didn’t read the scouting report on Arriola, who is quite good at getting into dangerous spots and less effective in finishing off those plays.
Pepi made two such plays. The first goal started with the simplest sequence in soccer: goalkeeper Matt Turner rolling the ball out to fullback Sergiño Dest. He dribbled forward and passed to midfielder Yunus Musah at the first sign of Jamaican pressure, but Musah accelerated right through a big gap in the Jamaican midfield line, exactly the sort of play he’s out there to make.
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