The U.S. played a game it had to win Thursday — and it did, beating Trinidad and Tobago 2-0 in a World Cup qualifier before a sellout crowd of 19,188 8 in suburban Denver.
But it wasn’t easy and it wasn’t pretty, and that doesn’t bode well for a U.S. qualifying campaign that hit the halfway mark Thursday, yet still hasn’t hit stride.
Teenaged midfielder Christian Pulisic gave the Americans their only goals, scoring 10 minutes apart early in the second half.
On the first, in the 52nd minute, a low DeAndre Yedlin cross led Pulisic into the six-yard box, where he slid to get a boot on the ball and redirect it into the net.