The United States looked completely uncomfortable, outplayed for long stretches of the game, and had to thank Matt Turner for literally saving them from further embarassment against a proactive Japan side to go down in a shutout loss at the Merkur Spiel Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany, on Friday.
Ferencvaros won once again with Henry Wingo in their defense to take command of Group H, while Mix Diskerud and Nicosia fell in Spain and bring up the rear in Group E.
Matt Turner made his competitive debut for Arsenal in their road win in the Swiss capital while Henry Wingo and Ferencvaros overcame the odds to pull off a remarkable victory against their Turkish visitors.
USMNT and Arsenal keeper contender Matt Turner found out the opponents for his best chance at playing time before heading to Qatar, with two games against PSV and Richard Ledezma being one of the overall highlights of the Europa League group stage.
With the MLS season in the thick of the summer action and the next round of USMNT games still several months away, we’ll take a look at how our domestically-based nats are doing in league play.
Now that the roster for the upcoming quartet of USMNT games has been announced, we’ll take a more refined weekly look at how Gregg Berhalter’s selections – and a few others with World Cup aspirations – did in MLS play over the weekend.
The 2022 World Cup in Qatar is sneaking up on us like a unstoppable cement roller, so we’ll take our weekly look at the MLS-based candidates for spots on the plane performed over the weekend.
With the World Cup in Qatar kicking off in just a few month months, we’ll take our weekly look at how MLS-based players with a chance to make the squad are performing.
According to several reports, goalkeeper Matt Turner will be making the move from New England to Old England in the summer when he joins American-owned Arsenal FC.
