Tonight US will play 2nd leg of CONCACAF Nations League Quarterfinal v. Trinidad and Tobago. Americans go into game with a 3-0 aggregate lead.

Place: Port of Spain
Time: 6pm
Television: TNT

With a win in the two legs the USMNT would qualify for the semifinals and for next summer's Copa America tournament.

No Weston McKennie tonight. He went back to Juventus with a sore knee. Sounds like they wanted him to be 100% for their upcoming clash with Inter.

With a 3 goal lead I'd like to see some depth guys starting anyways, so I hope he rests up and kills it this weekend.

I guess it'll be Luca, Musa and Gio starting in the midfield. I'd like to see Zendejas start as right winger and have Malik come in as a sub for Gio in the 60th min.

I wonder if TnT is going to start with the bus parked, or if they are going to put some men forward. Getting 4 goals with 10 guys back deep is a tall order.

I have a suspicion they're going to try to press higher today and play really dirty. I think they're going to try and rile someone up into getting a red.

i remember that fateful time we lost in PoP and failed to qualify for the WC.. hope we packed our waders this time. anyone from the staff go check the irrigation system last night and this morning?

In reply to oh no I really thought that was Ggg on someone's back until I saw Guzan.

So with a 3 nil loss we go to PKs?

lineup release within the next hour or so.

will we see the likes of zendjas, johnny, paxten, maloney, lund, scally?

i'm guessing Musah and Gio remain starting in MF for the second leg and we see either Johnny or LDLT starting with them in MF in place of Weston, but maybe Tillman starts again. Forwards one of Pepi/Balo at 9 and then do we see Paredes again and/or Zendejas starting or B. Aaronson at winger? in the first leg, Pepi came on and Balo stayed for the last 10-15 minutes. I think Jedi and Dest remain starting at fullback.

In reply to oh no Johnny pulled out of camp due to injury so I bet we see LDLT in MF. I can see starting with Aaronson and Zendejas as wingers.

oh damn. i knew that Weston left. I didn't realize Johnny left as well.

We're going to bunker like they did last week. It's going to be a really really boring soccer match.

Our XI in Trinidad. 🇺🇸

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— U.S. Soccer Men's National Team (@USMNT) November 20, 2023

Playing a 4-4-2/4-2-2-2?

That's a new wrinkle indeed!

In reply to akm91

akm91 said:

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Playing a 4-4-2/4-2-2-2?

That's a new wrinkle indeed!

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4-4-2.

And with both Pepi and Balogan we're not going to bunker.

Is balo playing wing or are we in a 4-4-2 diamond base with Aaronson in mf and two 9s? It was hard to tell what the formation was supposed to be in the first leg when Pepi subbed in for Tillman and Balogun stayed on.

We quickly scored goals after the two subs in the first leg, so maybe ggg is onto something with Pepi and Balogun both on.

This is the preferred lineup for me with who was in camp.

In a shocking turn of events, pitch is not great.

Looking for Reyna to keep his quick pace of play that had going in the 2nd half last game

Not only does Aaronson need to be able to take that dude 1v1, if you choose to go 1v1 instead of playing someone in you CANT be dispossessed so easily in that spot

dest's best soccer is ahead. dest be deft
pepi is fast

Great feed from Reyna, gotta do so much better with that. Honestly kind of a pathetic attempt from Aaronson there. Good job to make the right run to be in the spot though

Lunging with studs, should be a yellow

Outstanding goal

That was a NICE diving header from Jedi

Jedi is so quick

Anyone else's tnt feed cut out?

we're getting a little casual when we should be running the score

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Texas velvet maestro said:

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we're getting a little casual when we should be running the score

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Agreed. I get that it's island time, but let's use this opportunity to actually improve, regardless of the competition

Dest needs to be smarter.

What a ****ing idiot you have to be to get 2 yellows there

Dest is ****ing stupid

That's is bizarre