Berhalter made several changes to the starting 11 that faced Brazil, replacing Folarin Balogun with Ricardo Pepi and substituting Yunus Musah for Johnny Cardoso to give the players minutes to prove themselves ahead of the tournament.
“We wanted to purposely get minutes for some guys. You know, you just with all the guys want to get a shift because we’re going to be in the couple of Americans,” Berhalter said. “So, it was designed for that. And Rico’s had a tough year. You know, he hasn’t gotten it not too often.
“And again, with that stuff we’ve got to get better. We’ve got to keep moving and fixing.”
Berhalter also highlighted goalkeeper Matt Turner for recovering from the Colombia defeat, learning from his mistakes in order to turn out an 11-save performance, the most by a U.S. keeper since Tim Howard in the 2014 World Cup against Belgium.
“He stayed calm. That’s the most important thing,” Berhalter said. “He stayed calm. I thought he managed the game well. That was an incident that could have set him back a little bit into the offense, but he responded really well to that.
“He wasn’t so happy with his performance last game, and as you can see, he came out and had a much better game.”
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