Mauricio Pochettino WINS his USA coaching debut as Americans earn 2-0 friendly victory over Panama

Mauricio Pochettino began his tenure arsenic US men's nationalist squad manager with a triumph connected Saturday nighttime arsenic the Americans bushed Panama 2-0 successful a location friendly.

Midfielder Yunus Musah notched the opening extremity successful beforehand of the assemblage successful Austin, Texas, with his AC Milan teammate Christian Pulisic supplying the assistance with a transverse from the left.

Panama really outshot the US 13-11 and came adjacent to scoring connected a fewer occasions, namely wrong the 52nd infinitesimal erstwhile goalkeeper Matt Turner was forced into a tremendous treble save.

Ultimately, though, the visitors were incapable to equalize and Ricardo Pepi sealed things up with a close-range decorativeness heavy into 2nd fractional stoppage time.

Pochettino called it a 'very nonrecreational performance' aft the game. 

'Little by little, [we are] gathering thing - the nonsubjective is 2026,' helium continued to the TNT broadcast, calling the show 'solid.'

The lucifer successful beforehand of a near-capacity assemblage of 20,239 astatine Q2 Stadium was the archetypal of 2 friendlies for the US successful a four-day span that includes a crippled against Mexico connected Tuesday successful Guadalajara.

The Americans ended a four-game winless agelong and their archetypal four-game location winless streak since a seven-game descent successful 2010-11. 

Pochettino opted for a blend of younker and acquisition successful the starting XI, with 37-year-old Tim Ream occupying 1 of the halfway backmost spots and halfway players successful Pulisic and Robinson besides keeping their places.

However, helium besides opted to play 22-year-olds Gianluca Busio and Aidan Morris successful the middle, giving them conscionable their 13th and seventh caps respectively.

Notably, mainstay Weston McKennie was besides an unused substitute, portion regulars Sergiño Dest, Tyler Adams, Gio Reyna, Tim Weah and Folarin Balogun were besides missing done injury.

Pochettino made a raft of 2nd fractional substitutions arsenic Pulisic, Musah, Busio, Robinson, Josh Sargent and Brenden Aaronson were each hauled off.

Pepi was introduced successful the 67th infinitesimal earlier putting the crippled connected crystal successful the 94th.

Three second-half subs combined for that goal. 

Malik Tillman brought down a footwear from goalkeeper Matt Turner and passed to Haji Wright, who crossed. A Texas native, Pepi slid the shot done Mosquera´s legs for his 11th extremity successful 31 appearances - his 4th successful 3 planetary games successful Austin.

'We're starting to larn the caller coach's ideas and whatnot, that we executed beauteous well,' Robinson said aft the crippled to TNT.

'We had much chances [that we could have] enactment distant if we were a spot much clinical, but different than that I deliberation the squad stuck to the occupation well.'