World Cup qualifying has been a roller coaster—one that needs to steady itself.
Having Dest on a high is a gamechanger for the U.S. The trouble is what happens on the days when he’s not playing well, like in the USMNT’s qualifying opener against El Salvador. Good Sergiño Dest is a quicksilver dribbling wisp who can finish a play like that. Bad Sergiño Dest clogs up the offense and is a sieve on defense. How do you know which one you’re going to get on any given day? Even Barcelona, his club team, can’t be sure.
It may be the best, most talented men’s team the United States has ever produced when it’s playing at or near its peak, but that’s not the case when enough of its players are caught in the valley of their inconsistency. Because the team is young and inexperienced—Wednesday’s roster was the youngest the U.S. has ever started in a World Cup qualifier—and because steadiness is not a strength even among many of its veterans, it feels these troughs more than an experienced team would.
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