Daily News | Christian Pulisic’s hat trick powers the USMNT’s 5-1 rout of Panama in World Cup qualifying
ORLANDO — Officially, the U.S. men’s soccer team hasn’t qualified for the World Cup yet. But all those fans who’ve been full of angst and anxiety over the last four and a half years can breathe now.
That means the U.S. would have to lose by six goals in San José to miss out on an automatic ticket to Qatar. Even the cynics out there can admit the odds of that are tiny. Initially, the referee crew let the contact go. But the video review booth told referee Iván Barton he should go to the monitor, so he did. He didn’t need long to point to the spot.
While U.S. fans went back to stressing out, their team went and scored another goal: a Zimmerman long ball to Pulisic, who laid off to Antonee “Jedi” Robinson , who floated a superb cross that Paul Arriola met with an inch-perfect header to the far post.Four minutes later, it was 3-0. Jesús Ferreira got the last touch of a pretty passing buildup, and scored the first goal by a U.S. striker in qualifying since Oct. 7 — a stretch of eight games.
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