He's had a lot of chances.'Ĭhelsea 0-2 Real Madrid (agg 0-4): Blues are OUT of the Champions League as the defending champions prove too strong 'And to be fair, in both games he could have had quite a few more goals. I'm just really pleased that he's come in and he's taken his chances. We love him as a person, as a character, we believe in him. 'Which I think that in itself helped him. 'I think when you come out of that environment, you come back to your national team environment, it sort of gives you a little bit of a break. And sometimes it can be tough when you're down there and you're sort of at that end of the table. 'His club team unfortunately, not not in a great place in the table. 'Really pleased with him, for him,' Hudson said. Hudson praised Pepi for his ability to put his struggles behind him to produce for the team tonight. Only Christian Pulisic and Jozy Altidore can claim they scored that same amount at a younger age. Pepi's been struggling to find form while at Dutch side Groningen as his team sit 17 out of 18 in the Eredivisie standings on 17 points and being omitted from Berhalter's World Cup roster for Qatar.īut his score tonight saw him reach six goals in total for his national team career at the age of 20 years and 77 days. Hudson also heaped praise upon Pepi - the striker who scored the game-winning goal that sealed the USMNT's trip to the Nations League semifinals. The USMNT will be looking forward to their trip to Las Vegas after the 1-0 win thanks to a strike from Ricardo Pepi early on in the second half. The decision as to who takes over as coach will likely be made the US Soccer has a new sporting director, which might not be until the summer. Hudson said the Dortmund winger had 'showed flashes of being our biggest attacking threat' The conclusion, published this month, said there was no legal impediment to appointing Berhalter again. The USSF commissioned a law firm to investigate and appointed Anthony Hudson interim coach after Berhalter's contract expired Dec. The player's parents, former US captain Claudio Reyna and former women's player Danielle told US Soccer of a 1992 domestic violence incident involving Berhlater and the women he later married - who was Danielle's former college roommate. And, you know, I think we're all just in a position where we just want to keep looking forward.' Berhalter used Reyna sparingly at the World Cup and the 20-year-old nearly was sent home by the head coach for lack of effort in training. We're very, very pleased with how he's been this week in training. 'But listen, we're pleased with him. We're pleased what he's done. He's someone who would have been perfect in there. 'He probably needs a few more games under his belt. 'But we believe in him, like clearly he has talent and you see tonight some of the things he does. These CONCACAF games where you're playing in the opposition's half and there's not a lot of space between the back line and the midfield line, it can make it difficult. We didn't have the best of first halves, but I thought he showed flashes of being our biggest attacking threat. 'Gio's performance overall, I thought was really good. These were the first starts for Reyna since the scandal that broke out between his parents (R) & former USMNT manager Gregg Berhalter (L) over his lack of playing time at the World Cup
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