There would be no avoiding The Narrative going into this game, and all the parallels to the last one made it stick even harder.



Coming off of a four-nil win. No changes from the starting XI from the previous game. Against Trinidad and Tobago.



The similarities to October 2017 were numerous, but the U.S. men’s national team was never going to be able to vanquish the ghosts of that dismal night in Couva. There will be no retribution for a missed World Cup, certainly not in a Gold Cup group game. By the end of a 6-0 dismantling of the nation that knocked them out of the World Cup, however, there was at least some semblance of satisfaction. And maybe a bit of individual gratification.



“You guys know what happened against Trinidad,” said midfielder Christian Pulisic, who finished with one goal and two assists. “I wanted to win real bad today. That’s it.”



If there was a sense of vindication, it was thanks to the rebound...