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Ricardo Pepi scored seconds after coming into the game as the United States beat El Salvador 1-0 at Orlando's Exploria Stadium on Monday night to win Group D and clinch its spot in the CONCACAF Nations League finals in June.The U.S., fresh off a 7-1 shellacking of Grenada, started a strong XI, with interim manager Anthony Hudson knowing all his team needed was a win or draw to advance to the Nations League semis.

Tim Weah will miss the United States' CONCACAF Nations League matches against Grenada and El Salvador after getting hurt while playing for Lille.The 23-year-old was injured in Lille's Ligue 1 match against Toulouse on Saturday.The U.S. Soccer Federation said Sunday that Weah had entered the concussion protocol.

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Kyle BonaguraESPN Staff Writer

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Covers the Pac-12.Joined ESPN in 2014.Attended Washington State University.While the United States' game at Grenada on Friday represented the team's return to competitive soccer for the first time since the World Cup, the match -- as expected -- was anything but.

The U.S. men's national team thumped Grenada 7-1 on the road in its first competitive game since the 2022 World Cup on Friday to move within touching distance of a place in the CONCACAF Nations League final four.Ricardo Pepi and Weston McKennie each scored twice while Christian Pulisic starred by playing a major role in five of the goals, including scoring one of his own.

Manchester United will open contract talks with Diogo Dalot, 23, on his return from the World Cup following the right-back's strong displays for Portugal.Fiorentina's France forward Randal Kolo Muani, 24, who is valued at £26m, is being tracked by Liverpool, Tottenham and Atletico Madrid.Poland midfielder Mateusz Klich, 32, is in talks with Major League Soccer club DC United, coached by Wayne Rooney, over a potential move from Leeds United.

Leeds United have reportedly made the first contact' with Juventus midfielder Weston McKennie.That's according to a recent report from Italian journalist Gianluca Di Marizio, who claims Jesse Marsch is keen to bring the US Men's National Team (USMNT) international to Elland Road.Rumoured to be wanted by both Leeds United and Unai Emery's Aston Villa, if these latest reports are anything to go by, it seems the club from Yorkshire are leading the race for the midfielder's signature.

With the January transfer window now open around Europe there's plenty of gossip swirling about who's moving where.Transfer Talk brings you all the latest buzz on rumours, comings, goings and, of course, done deals!TOP STORY: Man Utd balk at Osimhen move
Manchester United remain interested in Victor Osimhen but are assessing alternative options after Napoli revealed their latest valuation, according to Sky Sports Deutschland's Florian Plettenberg.

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Sam BordenESPN Senior Writer

CloseSam Borden is a senior writer for ESPN.com.AL RAYYAN, Qatar -- Gregg Berhalter and his assistant coaches weren't sure what to say.It was halftime on Saturday night.The United States men's national team were trailing the Netherlands by two goals.Their tournament lives were dangling, but the US players had dominated so much of the opening 45 minutes, had played the way that they wanted, had very much battled with a favored Dutch side even as they were losing.

DOHA, Qatar -- Less than 24 hours from kickoff, the drama surrounding the United States men's national team's match against Iran on Tuesday has reached fever pitch.Not only is there everything to play for on the field, there is a growing discontent between the geopolitical rivals away from the pitch.

For the last couple of weeks before the World Cup break, Juventus ' midfield was in a numbers crunch that you never want to be in.It essentially became pretty easy to figure out who was going to be playing simply because there was nobody else to, you know, play.Come January, that looks to be a little different kind of situation.

Coming into Saturday night's game against Lecce, Nicolo Fagioli had played all of 71 minutes in Serie A this season.He was very much the last name on the midfield depth chart, and his playing time was reflective of that fact.Heck, even Nicolo Rovella, now very much on loan at Monza for the 2022-23 season, almost had as many minutes in a Juventus shirt as Fagioli.