After decades of scoring woes, the U.S. men suddenly have a two young, prolific, European-based strikers vying for the starting job up front.
"It's just the nature of the sport: If you don't deliver, somebody else is gonna likely take your place," Balogun said."It's always nice to obviously have that competition, because it forces me to improve."It's important that they both scored," the coach said.
"As far as we see the competition, it's twofold, right? It's what they do for their clubs each and every week, and what they do for us when they're in camp. And some of those are easy to measure because they're playing 90 minutes every week, and sometimes they're not and it becomes complicated. "But to me, it's more about how they work together, how they train, what their attitude is in camp and what they bring to the team when they're on the field," he continued."All you really want is your players to be confident and Ricardo certainly is.""We're still trying to figure out the best way to utilize Balo because we know he's high-quality. He made a number of good runs behind the back lines here that we didn't pick up on.
If he and Pepi keep filling the net, sooner of later it's going to create a selection headache for Berhalter. After nobody truly locked down the striker spot in lead up to the last World Cup — and after decades without not enough good options for the job — that's a problem the USMNT is lucky to finally have.
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