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World Cup 2022: USMNT-England ends 0-0 as Americans' inspired play goes for naught

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USA's forward #10 Christian Pulisic (C) runs with the ball during the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group B football match between England and USA at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, north of Doha on November 25, 2022. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
USA's forward #10 Christian Pulisic (C) runs with the ball during the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group B football match between England and USA at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, north of Doha on November 25, 2022. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
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AL KHOR, Qatar — The U.S. men’s national team outplayed and at times even dominated England at the World Cup on Friday night, and before we get to the result or the implications, it’s worth letting that sink in.

The Americans outran and outclassed the Englishmen. They outthought and almost overwhelmed a 2022 World Cup favorite. They proved that progress is very real and the future is very bright, but, after 90 intense minutes at the Al Bayt Stadium, they had nothing to show for it.

They drew with heavily favored England 0-0, and will go into Tuesday, the final day of Group B, needing to beat Iran to advance. The point, in the end, wasn’t all that different from a loss.

But the performance was emphatic, resplendent, inspiring and authoritative — and just what the USMNT had promised it would be.

They came with audacity and exuberance, with confidence and belief, with grand plans to impose themselves on the self-proclaimed inventors of the sport. “We are going to hurt them,” U.S. head coach Gregg Berhalter said on Thursday. “We know it's a very good [England] team, we know they have threats, we know we have to be cautious about their threats. But we want to play our game.”

And they did.

For 15 minutes, they fought off nerves, and survived early scares. Then they grew into the game and, by midway through the first half, took control of it.

They sat in a 4-4-2 without the ball, an adjustment from the Wales game, and corrected a few structural flaws early. Then they began breaking. Weston McKennie propelled them forward. England, suddenly, rocked back onto its heels.

They were playing against a team of Premier League stars, a team worth more than half a billion dollars. And they, at one point in their lives, were overlooked teens, or second-division players, or even backup small-college goalkeepers.

But here they were, on sport’s biggest stage, outdueling Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling and Jude Bellingham.

Here was McKennie, often cut by youth national teams, spinning around a Brit in midfield and driving into the penalty area.

Here was Walker Zimmerman, the pride of Furman University, stepping in for massive blocks.

Here was Haji Wright, finally in the USMNT after five really difficult young-adult years, trying to turn an England defender in the box.

Here was Matt Turner, he of SportsCenter Not Top 10 infamy as a sophomore at Fairfield University, springing to his right for key saves, and pinging 70-yard half-volleys to Pulisic on a dime.

And here was Pulisic ripping a left-footed shot off the crossbar.

“It’s called soccer!,” thousands of American fans chanted, as their English counterparts dug their chins into their palms.

The U.S. played without fear, just as players said they would. “Intimidation factors?” midfielder Tyler Adams said when asked about them at a day-before news conference. “I wouldn't say there are many things out there that intimidate me, other than spiders.”

A day later, he scurried around midfield, and dashed back to break up an early second-half attack with a colossal tackle on Bukayo Saka. He beat Mason Mount to balls, and kept England penned into its own defensive third.

The Americans stayed on the front foot after halftime. They won a few corners. And Pulisic, after winding up the U.S. fans behind the south goal, delivered three consecutive corners that required towering interventions from Harry Maguire in the six-yard box.

After 70 minutes, England regained its footing, and the game slowed. Chances dried up. And costly first-half misses, most notably McKennie’s, loomed large.

The USMNT had, by then, already made its point. Perhaps it hadn’t thoroughly “changed the way the world views American soccer,” as has been its stated goal, but it certainly took a step in that direction.

It will, though, be all for naught if it can’t beat Iran, whose stoppage-time stunners against Wales hours earlier changed the Group B calculus for the USMNT. Americans spent months calibrating their expectations as if a draw with England would be a good result, and that’s what the U.S. eventually got. But Iran’s win deflated the utility of a draw.

So it is win-and-in versus Iran on Tuesday (2 p.m. ET, Fox/Telemundo). Anything else will send the Americans home after just nine days. Their backs are officially against the wall, and their chests will likely ram into a parked Iranian bus.

They have been impressive. But their World Cup, after 180 minutes, hangs squarely in the balance.

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