Grenada vs. United States - Football Match Report - March 24, 2023 - ESPN

The U.S. men's national team thumped Grenada 7-1 on the road in its first competitive game since the 2022 World Cup on Friday to move within touching distance of a place in the CONCACAF Nations League final four.

Ricardo Pepi and Weston McKennie each scored twice while Christian Pulisic starred by playing a major role in five of the goals, including scoring one of his own. Brenden Aaronson and Alejandro Zendejas — making his first appearance since committing to the U.S. over Mexico — scored the other goal for a U.S. side under the charge of interim coach Anthony Hudson.

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The win means that the U.S. only needs a draw against El Salvador in Orlando on Monday in order to top its group and make the Nations League final four in June.

In a game that often felt more like a training exercise against a team ranked 173rd in the world, the USMNT set a new mark for the most goals in a match played out the United States.

The visitors dominated and scored four goals inside the first 34 minutes at the 8,000 capacity Kirani James National Stadium in the capital St. George's.

«A performance and a result like this can be — you don't want to get carried away,» Hudson said after the game.

«The importance for us is just to make sure that we do all the right things between now and the next game and we finish the job off. But the actual performance, I thought it was the result of just a really, really good week.»

Pulisic, captaining the team in the absence of the injured Tyler Adams, had a hand in all four first-half goals, assisting for Pepi to head in after four minutes and Aaronson to fire home a second in the 20th. The Chelsea star then delivered two set-pieces from which Leeds United