Mauricio Pochettino is enjoying the fruits of the USA’s emphatic
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Pochettino has the USA playing a sophisticated tactical game, getting key combinations of players on the ball in the right areas at the right time.
Coupled with more accomplished individual quality than any USMNT of the past, the play has been both effective and easy on the eye. In the final third, they’ve been difficult to resist in every sense.
With Folarin Balogun as their attacking focal point and a formidable supporting cast in midfield and on the flanks – Malik Tillman of Bayer Leverkusen principal among them – Pochettino’s team simply had too much for Group D. Their next journey starts now.
Turkey have amassed 102 touches in the opposition box and 62 shots across their two matches. They’re yet to score a goal and they’re yet to play anyone of the United States’ standard.
Their domination of possession yielded two defeats and an early exit, the kind of statistical imbalance that can make federation bosses ask serious questions. Vincenzo Montella will be worried.
They’re unlikely to have as much of the ball tonight but that could be where the dissimilarities end, even with Arda Guler in their XI.
Turkey vs USA: Group D
FourFourTwo’s prediction
Turkey 0-3 USA
Even with little of substance to play for, this will be an outright mismatch, FourFourTwo predicts.
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