On this day in 1994, Lalas's late equalizer

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🇺🇸 #USMNT 1-1 🇷🇺 Russia

📍 Seattle

👔 Gansler

📋 Friendly 

The third friendly in three weeks to start the year for the US and they remained unbeaten during that stretch.

This AstroTurf doesn’t look great.

53’

What an opener for Dmitri Radchenko. 

86’

Claudio Reyna takes the lay-off in stride before playing the ball out wide to Mike Lapper.

The fullback lofts the ball to the back post where Alexi Lalas and his flowing red hair meets to ball and heads into the ground and past Stanislav Cherchesov.

Scorers: Alexi Lalas 85′ — Dmitri Radchenko 52′

USA: Tony Meola, Jeff Agoos, Desmond Armstrong, Mike Lapper, Alexi Lalas, Thomas Dooley (Brian Quinn 74′), Mike Burns, Chris Henderson, Dominic Kinnear, Cobi Jones (Mark Chung 83′), Joe-Max Moore (Claudio Reyna 60′)

RUS: Zaur Khapov, Sergei Gorlukovich, Dmitri Galyaman, Dmitri Popov, Dmitri Kuznetzov (Dmitri Cheryshev 74′), Omari Tetradze, Vladimir Tatarchuk (Bakhva Tedeyev 57′), Igor Korneyev (Rashid Rakhimov 83′), Oleg Salenko, Aleksandr Borodyuk, Dmitri Radchenko

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On this day in 2006, Twellman's hat-trick

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🇺🇸 #USMNT 5-0 🇳🇴 Norway

📍 Carson

👔 Arena

📋 Friendly

Probably Taylor Twellman’s (@TaylorTwellman) favorite day in a USA kit. A hat-trick for the American!

5’

What a cross from Clint Dempsey leads to a touch and shot for Twellman. (1/5)

17’

A quick second goal from Twellman in a very familiar manner.

With Landon Donovan and Todd Dunivant over the set-piece, Dunivant curls in the left-footed cross.

Twellman rose highest to meet it before finding the back of the net. (2/5)

67’

After a half-cleared corner, Dunivant is the quickest to react and after some patience in the box, the defender fires the ball across the goal.

Eddie Pope readied himself on the six-yard box and redirects toward the goal for the Americans’ third.

76’

This starts with a nice settle from Pat Noonan. He collects himself and lifts a cross to the back post.

Twellman is there again to nod home for the goal and the ninth USMNT hat-trick in its history. (4/5)

87’

Nate Jaqua starts the move centrally before finding Ben Olsen down the left.

Olsen returns it to Jaqua for the initial shot. The ball is kicked back to captain Donovan, who unselfishly lays it into Chris Klein for the roofed finish.

Scorers: Taylor Twellman (Clint Dempsey) 5′ (Todd Dunivant) 17′ (Pat Noonan) 76′, Eddie Pope (Dunivant) 67′, Chris Klein (Landon Donovan) 87

USA: 22-Kevin Hartman; 3-Todd Dunivant, 12-Jimmy Conrad, 23-Eddie Pope (4-Ugo Ihemelu, 83′), 2-Frankie Hejduk; 5-Kerry Zavagnin (14-Ben Olsen, 79′), 13-Pat Noonan (17-Chris Klein, 77′), 8-Clint Dempsey (21-Santino Quaranta, 70′), 10-Landon Donovan (Capt.);16-Josh Wolff (19-Nate Jaqua, 67′), 20-Taylor Twellman (11-Brian Ching, 83′)

Subs not used: 24-Matt Reis

Head Coach: Bruce Arena

NOR: 1-Espen Johnsen; 2-Steinar Pedersen (Capt.), 3-Frode Kippe, 4-Brede Hangeland, 5-Erlend Hanstveit (14-Trond Erik Bertelsen, 46′); 6-Henning Hauger (17-Alex Valencia, 46′), 7-Petter Rudi (16-Magne Hoset, 64′), 8-Stian Ohr (18-Epsen Olsen, 46′), 9-Tomasz Sokolowski (15-Raymond Kvisvik, 46′); 10-Ole Martin Arst, 11-Petter Vaagan Moen

Subs not used: 12-Jan Kjell Larsen, 13-Jarl Andre Storbæk

Referee: Oscar Ruiz Acosta (COL)

Cards: Landon Donovan [Y 70′], Santino Quaranta [Y 82′] — Erlend Hanstveit [Y 17′], Magne Hoset [Y 70′]

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On this day, five debuts in a draw

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🇺🇸 #USMNT 0-0 🇨🇦 Canada

📍 Houston

👔 Klinsmann

📋 Friendly

In the eventual rain, Canada grinds out a goalless draw with the US, which probably felt like a win.

First caps for Matt Besler, Alfredo Morales, Justin Morrow, Tony Beltran and Will Bruin.

Scorers: none

USA: 12-Sean Johnson; 3-Tony Beltran (21-Benny Feilhaber, 46′), 5-Omar Gonzalez, 4-Matt Besler, 2-Justin Morrow; 6-Kyle Beckerman (Capt.) (14-Alfredo Morales, 74′), 7-Graham Zusi (18-Juan Agudelo, 64′), 11-Brad Davis (17-Alejandro Bedoya, 64′), 8-Brad Evans; 10-Chris Wondolowski (19-Joshua Gatt, 46′), 9-Eddie Johnson (23-Will Bruin, 74′)

Subs not used: 1-Bill Hamid

Head Coach: Jurgen Klinsmann

CAN: 22-Simon Thomas; 2-Nik Ledgerwood, 3-Ashtone Morgan, 4-Nana Attakora (13-Doneil Henry, 64′), 5-Dejan Jakovic; 7-Terry Dunfield (16-Matthew Stinson, 51′), 8-Kyle Bekker (17-Kyle Porter, 90′), 9-Tosaint Rickets, 11-Russell Teibert (19-Evan James, 89′); 12-Jonathan Beaulieu-Bourgault, 14-Dwayne De Rosario (Capt.) (10-Frank Jonke, 81′)

Subs not used: 6-Philippe Davies, 15-Emmanuel Gomez, 18-Roberto Stillo, 20-Mason Trafford, 21-Andres Fresenga

Head coach: Colin Miller

Referee: Raul Castro (HON)

Cards: Ashtone Morgan [Y 78′], Nik Ledgerwood [Y 79′]

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On this day in 2017, Lletget debuts in goalless stalemate

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🇺🇸 #USMNT 0-0 🇷🇸 Serbia

📍 San Diego

👔 Arena

📋 Friendly

The first of two friendlies in 6 days ends in a goalless draw.

First caps for Sebastian Lletget, Chris Pontius and Jorge Villafana.

Last caps for Chad Marshall and Greg Garza

Darlington Nagbe was 🔥.

Scorers: None

USA: 1-Nick Rimando; 19-Graham Zusi, 15-Steve Birnbaum, 5-Chad Marshall, 2-Greg Garza (14-Jorge Villafaña, 69′); 4-Michael Bradley (Capt.), 13-Jermaine Jones (18-Sebastian Lletget, 46′); 11-Alejandro Bedoya (23-Chris Pontius, 65′), 16-Sacha Kljestan (10-Benny Feilhaber, 77′), 6-Darlington Nagbe (9-Juan Agudelo, 87′); 17-Jozy Altidore (8-Jordan Morris, 74′)

Subs not used: 3-Brad Evans, 7-DaMarcus Beasley, 12-Luis Robles, 20-Dax McCarty, 21-Walker Zimmerman, 22-David Bingham

Head coach: Bruce Arena

SRB: 1-Filip Manojlović; 3-Nemanja Miletić, 5-Nikola Maraš, 7-Srđan Plavšić (17-Lazar Jovanović, 81′), 10-Aleksandar Paločević (9-Marko Mrkić, 64′), 11-Marko Gobeljić (2-Marko Klisura, 84′), 13-Nikola Ćirković, 14-Nemanja Ćalasan (4-Miloš Simonović, 55′), 15-Stefan Panić, 16-Jovan Đokić (6-Marko Jevtović, 77′), 18-Saša Jovanović (8-Enver Alivodić, 63′)

Subs not used: 12-Ognjen Čančarević

Head coach: Slavoljub Muslin

Referee: Kevin Morrison (JAM)

Cards: Sacha Kljestan [Y 57′] — Nikola Ćirković [Y 80′]

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