AUSTIN, Texas —
Most everything from team meetings to training sessions have been running late during Mauricio Pochettino’s first week in charge of the national soccer team. So perhaps it should be no surprise that his players needed a little extra time to find their way in their coach’s first game Saturday, with Yunus Musah and Ricardo Pepi scoring second-half goals to give the U.S. a 2-0 win over Panama.
Of more importance, however, was how the team played. After kicking off the Pochettino Era with a first half that looked a lot like the Gregg Berhalter one — energetic but sloppy and lacking in creativity — the U.