When it was over, the first thought to come to mind is that the U.S. team may never play a match with the kind of intense pressure that came with Tuesday’s.
He gave up his body — and risked possibly the rest of his World Cup — to do it.
Pulisic didn’t even get to witness live the finished product of the biggest victory for U.S. soccer in eight years, because he suffered an abdominal injury while scoring the goal after crashing into Iran goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand and taking a knee to his midsection. The Pulisic goal was symbolic of the end result, because he gave up his body to get to a Sergiño Dest cross on front of the goal in the 38th minute.
The Americans, who until Tuesday’s exorcism were still living with failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, would have been excoriated had they not been able to get by Iran and get to the knockout stage.
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