Dortmund’s Gio Reyna leads way as young USA team thrash Panama
Nicholas Gioacchini and Sebastian Soto each scored their first two worldwide objectives, Gio Reyna received his first and a young United States team routed Panama 6-2 on Monday evening in a pleasant at Wiener Neustadt in Austria.
Gioacchini and Reyna made their first appearances on Thursday in a 0-0 draw against Wales, amongst six debuts as the Americans returned from a coronavirus break that had sidelined the team since February. Soto and Richy Ledezma have been amongst two extra debuts towards Panama. Sebastian Lletget, like Soto a second-half substitute, additionally scored late for the Americans. Ledezma arrange the ultimate aim.
Jose Fajardo scored his first two objectives for Panama, the primary within the eighth minute with a glancing header following a cross by Alejandro Yearwood that break up central defenders Tim Ream and Matt Miazga. Fajardo lower the hole to 3-2 within the 79th minute earlier than a late flurry of objectives from the US. The US dominated the primary half with 72% possession however struggled to create for a lot of the second half earlier than he three late objectives.
Reyna tied the rating within the seventeenth minute with a 20-yard free kick, that skipped previous Orlando Mosquera after Weston McKennie was tripped by Michael Murillo. Gioacchini then put the US forward within the twenty second minute with a right-footed shot from eight yards after Reyna crossed to Uly llanez, whose shot was saved by the keeper.
Gioacchini received his second from a close-range diving header within the twenty sixth after Tyler Adams crossed and Miazga headed the ball again throughout the goalmouth. He had an opportunity for a hat-trick within the sixty fifth following a handball from Oscar Linton, however Mosquera stopped his penalty.
Soto entered within the 77th minute and scored from a cross by Sebastian Lletget following an overlapping run by Reggie Cannon, who began at proper again as Sergino Dest moved to the left. Cannon crossed once more for Lletget’s header within the 87th, his third worldwide aim, and Ledezma had an extended, looping cross for Soto within the first minute of stoppage time.
A pair of 20-year-olds made debuts. Ledezma, a PSV Eindhoven midfielder, changed Reyna within the 68th, and Soto, a Telstar ahead, got here in for Gioacchini. The US have used 90 gamers for the reason that October 2017 defeat towards Trinidad and Tobago that eradicated the Americans from the 2018 World Cup.
Preparing for the pandemic-delayed begin of World Cup qualifying subsequent September, the US began a lineup with a median age of twenty-two years and 154 days, the second-youngest within the team’s historical past.
Coach Gregg Berhalter stated on Monday the US might schedule one other match subsequent month, which presumably can be with gamers principally from Major League Soccer.
