{"id":45722,"date":"2017-06-08T22:30:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=45722"},"modified":"2017-06-08T22:33:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T02:33:37","slug":"pulisic-powers-u-s-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=45722","title":{"rendered":"Pulisic Powers U.S. to Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/core\/video\/iframe?id=3140772&#038;endcard=false\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Christian Pulisic pounded a pair of shots between the posts to power the United States to a 2-0 win over Trinidad &#038; Tobago in Thursday&#8217;s World Cup Qualifier at Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Col.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old midfielder scored in the 52nd and 62nd minutes while Tim Howard thwarted a pair of dangerous opportunities authored by the guests to secure the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Former Revolution midfielder Clint Dempsey tested the Trinidad &#038; Tobago defense early with a strong effort that did not miss its mark by much in the 15th minute. Nine minutes later, John Brooks put goalkeeper Jan Michael Williams in a precarious position when he broke through the box before the shot-stopper snuffed out the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>With Wednesday&#8217;s win in the books, the U.S. will now face a crucial match against rival Mexico, who are currently atop the standings in the final round of Qualifying, on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Pulisic scored twice after the break to send the U.S. to a 2-0 win over Trinidad &#038; Tobago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22],"tags":[1638,891,892,1384,1281],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pulisic.png?fit=600%2C415&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45724,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45722\/revisions\/45724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}