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Where should Arena deploy Pulisic for the USMNT?

The versatile teenager can play any number of positions for the U.S. national team, and it will be up to his coach to choose where he's most effective

NEW YORK — The most important match of Bruce Arena's latest tenure as U.S. national team coach sits just one week away, and at the top of his to-do list ahead of the World Cup qualifier against Panama is deciding where to deploy his most dangerous weapon.

Where should Christian Pulisic play? The teenage sensation has spent the past month flip-flopping between the left and right wing for Borussia Dortmund, giving Arena plenty of opportunity to see him in both roles.