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Christian Pulisic scored in the third minute and assisted on Folarin Balogun’s goal in the 44th as the USMNT cruised past Bolivia 2-0 in their Copa América opener on Sunday night. Against an overmatched, youthful Bolivia side, the US were comfortable winners. Ten of Bolivia’s starters entered the opening game of the tournament with 10 caps or fewer, and an experienced US side wasted no time in showing the gulf in quality.

“We came out flying with a lot of intensity. Obviously, that early goal helped us a lot,” Pulisic said. “All around, a pretty dominant performance.



I think we could have put it away and had more goals there.” Pulisic put the US ahead two minutes into the game, the fastest American goal in 34 competitive matches against South American opponents. He played a short corner to Timothy Weah before running toward the penalty area.

Weah returned the ball to Pulisic, who took a touch and from just inside the area curled a right-foot shot off the outstretched fingertips of goalkeeper Guillermo Viscarra and into the far upper corner for his 30th international goal. Christian Pulisic delivering with a beauty 🤩 (via @FOXSoccer ) pic.twitter.

com/rrzAULFWAl Balogun doubled the lead when he received a pass from Pulisic, took several touches and threaded a low, left-foot shot along the ground, past defender Jesús Sagredo and inside Viscarra’s far post for his fourth goal in 13 appearances for the national team. Pulisic joined Clint Dempsey as the only US.

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