Mexico beats Honduras 3-0, closes in on World Cup berth

The top three teams after 10 matches advance to next year's World Cup in Russian Federation, and the fourth-place team faces Asia's No. 5 nation in a playoff. In the match against Trinidad and Tobago, the main character was a midfielder Dortmund "Borussia" Christian Politics, who scored two goals in the second half.

(AP Photo/David Zalubowski). U.S. forward Clint Dempsey, right, exchanges words with coach Bruce Arena after Arena sent in a substitute for Dempsey during the second half of a World Cup soccer qualifying match against Trinidad & Tobago on Thursday, .

See how to watch Sunday's critical World Cup qualifier below. He had not started for the USA since the October 2015 loss to Mexico in a playoff for a Confederations Cup berth.

"It's a shame to give away the goal that we did", said Bradley, adding, "Any time you can get a point here, it's great".

While he remembers a lot about his National Team career, Roy can't recall who made the cross to him.

Pulisic made his worldwide debut 15 months ago and has seven goals and five assists in 15 appearances, including four goals and three assists in his last four contests. But the first goal eventually arrived for El Tri, and it came from an unlikely but highflying individual in Chivas defender Alanis.

"Absolutely. I'm still young", he said.

"The game was kind of disappointing, because in those days they would call the team two or three weeks before the game and say 'Are you guys in shape?" The United States still has some breathing room if they only emerge from these games with three points, but they could really use four. After several renovations, capacity has been reduced from 120,000 to 87,000, but it remains imposing.

"It's fun. I'm sadistic".

With the win against T&T on Thursday, the USA are firmly back on track to qualify for Russian Federation 2018.

Team USA after a lackluster start came through on the third place giving the permit in the Russian Championship.

The win keeps Mexico atop the CONCACAF World Cup qualifying table on 13 points ahead of a key match versus the United States on June 11 in Estadio Azteca. "I don't know", he said. "So we didn't have probably the best team we could've had". "We know the fans obviously won't be on our side". Mexico has looked the stronger of the two nations recently and beat the United States in OH when they met in November. A 4-0 loss four days later at Costa Rica left the Americans last in the standings and caused USSF President Sunil Gulati and his board to fire Jurgen Klinsmann and bring back Arena, the USA coach from 1998-2006. El Tri leads the North and Central American and Caribbean region with four wins and a draw at the halfway point and with a victory could pretty much make certain a seventh straight World Cup berth.

Nagbe had been dropped from the roster by Klinsmann.

"He's having fun", US coach Bruce Arena said. What a boost that would be for the team as it heads to Russian Federation for the first time for the Confederations Cup, knowing that it will be making a return visit in 12 months.

After two games in "The Hex", the group play stage that determines which three teams from CONCACAF will automatically qualify for the 2018 World Cup, the USMNT was winless, with a home loss to rival Mexico and an ugly 4-0 drubbing at the hands (or, feet rather) of Costa Rica. There's also a decent chance that Mexico manager Juan Carlos Osorio will decide to go with a three-man backline. In addition, defender Carlos Salcedo left in the 54th minute Thursday after hurting a leg.