It’s easy to get lost in all the meltdowns and outrage that takes place on USMNT Twitter any time a roster is released. Inevitably, anyone who follows the team, and the player pool passionately will disagree with one decision or another. That isn’t a helpful exercise. A constructive exercise is to break down the exclusions by categories, reasons they were not called or status on the team. When you do this for the October roster, here is how it breaks down:
INJURED (Self-explanatory. Unavailable due to injury)
Gio Reyna
Pulisic is close to a return and may even feature this weekend for Chelsea.