DOHA, Qatar — Twenty-four hours before the goal that sent the U.S. to the World Cup Round of 16, Christian Pulisic called his shot.
He buzzed and limbered around the USMNT’s training pitch here in Qatar on Monday, under the lights at Al-Gharafa. And in an idle moment, he turned to U.S. defender DeAndre Yedlin.
“I can feel myself getting a goal tomorrow,” he said, according to Yedlin.
And it wasn’t just an off-hand comment. “You could tell,” Yedlin said. “He had that look in his eye yesterday, where he was really ready to put the team on his back.