The United States faces Ecuador in a game that looks, for multiple reasons, like it’ll be an interesting one. First of all, the USMNT is facing a dangerous South American team, which beats another game against the same old Concacaf faces. Second, and the point that got people talking, is the prospect of seeing Tyler Adams deployed in the hybrid right back/defensive midfielder role that Gregg Berhalter sees as part of his system with the U.S. right now.
That has reverberations elsewhere in the team, which for the first time under Berhalter includes most of the European contingent for the first time since he took over the program.