When the United States take on Panama on Tuesday in a CONCACAF 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifying match (7 p.m. PT; beIN Sports), Seattle Sounders forward Clint Dempsey will have a chance to break Landon Donovan’s all-time U.S. men’s national team goalscoring record.
With 52 career international goals, Dempsey entered last Friday’s qualifier against Honduras five shy of Donovan’s 57. But after a vintage Dempsey performance, in which he recorded a hat trick in his first U.S. match in nine months, Dempsey now sits just two back.
“At this rate, he might break my record tonight,” now-Fox analyst Donovan said of Dempsey on Friday after his second goal.