If mending any personal fissures with rising star Gio Reyna is the most pressing task of Gregg Berhalter’s second stint in charge of the U.S. men’s national soccer team, then deploying the prodigious playmaker at his influential apex comes in a close second.
As the United States poured it on late for a 3-0 win over lowly Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday night in Austin, giving the Americans a comfortable lead in the two-legged Concacaf Nations League quarterfinal, Berhalter showed off how to unleash the 21-year-old attacker’s talents — and how to handcuff them.