El Salvador vs USMNT2022-23 Concacaf Nations League Group Stage Match no. 2 June 14, 2022Cuscatlán Stadium; San Salvador, El Salvador Pre-game coverage: 9:30 p.m. ET on FS1 Kickoff: 10 p.m. ET on FS1, Univision, TUDNSocial Media: @USMNT on Twitter and Instagram; US Soccer on Facebook, the US Soccer app
USMNT’s starting eleven tonight in El Salvador: 18-Ethan Horvath, 4-Tyler Adams, 5-Antonee Robinson, 6-Yunus Musah, 10-Christian Pulisic, 11-Brenden Aaronson, 15-Aaron Long , 19-Haji Wright, 20-Cameron Carter-Vickers, 21-Tim Weah, 22-Reggie Cannon
Substitutes: 1-Matt Turner, 12-Sean Johnson, 2-DeAndre Yedlin, 3-Erik Palmer-Brown, 7-Paul Arriola, 8-Weston McKennie, 9-Jesus Ferreira, 13-Jordan Morris, 14-Luca de la Torre , 16-Joe Scally, 17-Cristian Roldan, 23-Kellyn Acosta
GAME NOTES FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT SALVADOR
- USMNT starting eleven cap numbers (including this match): Christian Pulisic (51), Tyler Adams (30), Antonee Robinson (29), Reggie Cannon (27), Aaron Long (27), Tim Weah (25), Brenden Aaronson (22), Yunus Musah (19), Cameron Carter-Vickers (11), Ethan Horvath (8), Haji Wright (1)
- USMNT starting eleven cap numbers in official competition (including this match): Christian Pulisic (37), Reggie Cannon (16), Antonee Robinson (16), Tyler Adams (15), Brenden Aaronson (14) , Aaron Long (12), Tim Weah (11), Yunus Musah (11), Cameron Carter-Vickers (2), Ethan Horvath (2), Haji Wright (1)
- USMNT starting eleven numbers in the CONCACAF League of Nations (including this match): Reggie Cannon (6), Aaron Long (5), Christian Pulisic (5), Brenden Aaronson (3), Antonee Robinson (3), Tyler Adams (2), Cameron Carter-Vickers (2), Ethan Horvath (2), Tim Weah (2), Yunus Musah (1), Haji Wright (1)
- Tonight’s starting eleven has an average age of 24 years and 26 days.
- The USMNT lineup has an average of 22 games and 11 appearances in official competition.
- Gregg Berhalter makes seven changes to the USMNT lineup that began Friday’s first CNL game against Grenada, with the bottom line of Reggie Cannon, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Aaron Long and Antonee Robinson remaining.
- Goalkeeper Ethan Horvath earns his first appearance since supporting the United States in a 4-0 victory in the friendly against Costa Rica on June 9, 2021 in Sandy, Utah. It is also Horvath’s second appearance in official competition after his heroic substitute appearance in the Nations League Final victory over Mexico on June 6, 2021 in Denver.
- Forward Haji Wright gets his first outing, his first selection in official competition and his first appearance away from home for the USMNT tonight.
- Christian Pulisic leads the team for the 10th time tonight. Pulisic (23.74) is the second youngest player during the modern era (1990-present) to captain the USMNT 10 times, after only Tony Meola (23.18) who did so on April 29, 1990. 1992 in the Republic of Ireland.
USMNT’s youngest 10 times (modern)
Player
Date / opponent
Age at 10th Captaincy
Chapter No.
Toni Meola
April 29, 1992 in Ireland
23.18
45
Christian Pulisic
June 14, 2022 at El Salvador
23.74
51
Peter Vermes
1 June 1991 against Ireland
24.53
35
Landon Donovan
March 28, 2007 vs. Guatemala
25.07
88
Claudio Reyna
June 11, 2000 against Mexico
26.89
74
- Aaron Long becomes the only player to start each of the four U.S. games during the June window.
- The scorer of WCQ’s 1-0 win over El Salvador on January 27, left-back Antonee Robinson continues his career as the only player to appear in all 10 games in 2022.
- Three starters appeared in the last US visit to El Salvador, a 0-0 draw to open the qualifier for the 2022 FIFA World Cup on September 2, 2021. Brenden Aaronson and Tyler Adams started the match Antonee Robinson was given a chance to change things around.
- Five starters took part in the 1-0 home win over El Salvador on January 27 in Columbus, Ohio. Antonee Robinson, who scored the only goal of the match, as well as Tyler Adams, Christian Pulisic and Tim Weah started, while Brenden Aaronson replaced Pulisic in the 65th minute.
- With teams limited to dressing 23 players, defenders George Bello, Walker Zimmerman and midfielder Malik Tillman are not part of tonight’s squad. Teams can make five substitutions during three different times.
- The United States has an all-time 19-1-6 against El Salvador, having a 12-0-4 lead in games played in official competition and 2-1-4 in away matches against Los Cuscatlecos.
- A win tonight would secure the United States a place in the top two in the League of Nations A, Group D and in turn secure a place for the USMNT in the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
- César Ramos of Mexico is the referee of today’s match. The USMNT is 3-3-2 in Ramos-led matches, the most recent of which was the qualifying match for the World Cup in Canada on January 30, 2022.