A spectacular, 25-yard strike from defender and newly-minted scoring threat Sergiño Dest sparked the U.S. national team and highlighted a deserved 4-1 victory over a makeshift Jamaican side in Thursday afternoon’s friendly in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Goals during a second half marked by a flurry of substitutions from Brenden Aaronson and Sebastian Lletget (two), as well as Jamaica’s Jamal Lowe, provided the final margin.
Dest, 20, served notice of his offensive potential last weekend in La Liga, where he scored twice for Barcelona in a 6-1 defeat of Real Sociedad. Dest has been flourishing as a right wingback for Barcelona, but for the USA, he’s more frequently deployed on the left in a 4-3-3.