USMNT: Tactically tense Gregg Berhalter must let Christian Pulisic loose

Gregg Berhalter has spoken of the difficulties when dealing with a spatially drifting player like Christian Pulisic. For the USMNT’s benefit, however, the head coach must let his star winger loose.

Gregg Berhalter is into his second season as the U.S. Men’s National Team head coach. As his time at the Columbus Crew illustrated, — and his first year with the USMNT strongly hinted at — he is a tactically stringent and focused manager. He has a system that he believes in and he expects his players to execute particular roles that make up that system.

In Columbus, this was a 4-2-3-1 with two very advanced full-backs, a central midfielder that would often drop between the centre-halves, and a…