A rare start for Christian Pulisic paid dividends for Chelsea in their win over Salzburg, while Weston McKennie and Juventus fell just short in their do-or-die comeback attempt against Benfica.
Josh Cohen and Maccabi Haifa pulled off a surprising upset over Weston McKennie and Italian powerhouse Juventus, while Malik Tillman and James Sands likely improved their stock with Rangers by missing their embarrassing loss to Liverpool.
Weston McKennie was the only American with reason to celebrate after the latest round of Champions League games, as a dismal week saw Christian Pulisic ignored, Gio Reyna and Cameron Carter-Vickers miss out, and several more on the losing end.
Most Yanks had a difficult second round of Champions League group-stage games, with James Sands seeing red in Rangers’ heavy loss at Napoli, and Gio Reyna’s promising return to Dortmund’s staring XI marred by a late Citeh come-back.
A remarkable draw for the UEFA Champions League saw the unlikely scenario of the ten participating Americans, nearly all of whom stand a strong chance to play, distributed across all eight groups in the competition.
Brendan Aaronson and Tyler Adams ran the show (and started) against substitute Christian Pulisic’s Chelsea, while Josh Sargent is making a case to be Norwich City’s (and USMNT?) new No. 9.
Jesse Marsch faces one of his biggest tests of this English Premier League campaign on Sunday when Leeds United welcomes Christian Pulisic and Chelsea to Elland Road to see which team can remain unbeaten.
English Premier League side Manchester United has had a nightmare summer transfer window and now it appears that they will be going all out to sign reinforcements, with Christian Pulisic reportedly being one of the names on their list.
English Premier League side Chelsea announced on Tuesday the signing of U.S. youth international Gabriel Slonina from the Chicago Fire, with the goalkeeper remaining in Major League Soccer until the end of the current season.
