{"id":580029,"date":"2025-11-19T08:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/580029\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:25:17","slug":"pochettino-guides-usa-to-a-statement-win-vs-uruguay-building-up-to-fifa-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/580029\/","title":{"rendered":"Pochettino guides USA to a \u2018statement\u2019 win vs Uruguay, building up to FIFA World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States scored its most impressive win under head coach Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s with a 5-1 thrashing of Uruguay in an international friendly on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A first-half goal blitz from the USA laid the foundations for the emphatic victory in Tampa against Marcelo Bielsa\u2019s overwhelmed army.<\/p>\n<p>The co-host of FIFA World Cup 2026 raced into a 4-0 lead just before half-time, thanks to a goal from Sebastian Berhalter, two goals from Alex Freeman and a 42nd-minute strike from Diego Luna.<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/international-football\/curacao-qualifies-for-fifa-world-cup-2026-smallest-ever-country-in-tournament-wc-qualifiers\/article70297430.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Curacao becomes smallest country to qualify for FIFA World Cup<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Although Giorgian de Arrascaeta pulled a goal back in first-half stoppage time for Uruguay, Pochettino\u2019s team completed the rout with a 68th-minute Tanner Tessmann goal.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time the USA ever scored five goals against a World Cup-winning nation and was further evidence that Pochettino\u2019s squad is on an upward curve after a bumpy start to the Argentine coach\u2019s reign.<\/p>\n<p>US goalscorer Berhalter, the son of former US coach Gregg Berhalter, had set the ball rolling with a sensational strike in the 17th minute, curling a sweetly struck shot into the far corner after a cleverly worked free kick routine.<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/international-football\/haiti-qualifies-for-fifa-world-cup-2026-second-ever-wc-beats-nicaragua-2-0-highlights\/article70297423.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Haiti qualifies for FIFA World Cup for the second time ever<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to make a statement,\u201d Sebastian Berhalter said afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to show what US soccer is about. We had a chance to go out here and give everything we had and we were ready against a good Uruguay team,\u201d the Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just wanted to make the fans happy\u2014 to give them something to believe in and hopefully tonight we went out there and did that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Nov 19, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States scored its most impressive win under head coach Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s with a 5-1 thrashing of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[6598,183478,49,183483,183479,978,183482,659,183477,183480,183481,183476],"class_list":{"0":"post-580029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-mauricio-pochettino","9":"tag-pochettino","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-soccer-news","12":"tag-uruguay-vs-usa","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-us-soccer-updates","15":"tag-usa","16":"tag-usa-beats-uruguay-5-1","17":"tag-usa-soccer","18":"tag-usa-soccer-latest","19":"tag-usa-vs-uruguay"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115575411360673007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}