Mauricio Pochettino replacing Folarin Balogun in USMNT’s World Cup lineup could get complicated

Source: New York Post

SEATTLE — Mauricio Pochettino’s calculus on how to deal with the loss of Folarin Balogun, handed a one-game red card suspension ahead of the USMNT’s Round of 16 match against Belgium, comes down in large part to how much the manager is willing to change about his lineup as a whole. See Also USMNT’s ‘why not us’ World Cup belief is deserved — even as Belgium threat looms Pochettino’s system and first-choice starting XI have been hugely effective so far in the World Cup, including against Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Round of 32, and he does have plug-and-play options. Those would be Ricardo Pepi and Haji Wright, with Pepi presumed to be higher up on the depth chart.