{"id":50915,"date":"2025-10-13T22:08:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pulisic-in-doubt-vs-australia-robinson-out-due-to-injury-pochettino-announces\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T22:08:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:08:35","slug":"pulisic-in-doubt-vs-australia-robinson-out-due-to-injury-pochettino-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/pulisic-in-doubt-vs-australia-robinson-out-due-to-injury-pochettino-announces\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulisic in doubt vs Australia: Robinson out due to injury, Pochettino announces"},"content":{"rendered":"COMMERCE CITY, Colorado \u2013 US National Team coach Mauricio Pochettino is evaluating Christian Pulisic&#8217;s situation for the upcoming friendly against Australia. The final decision will be made on Tuesday.\n\nPulisic, who plays for AC Milan, has shown a good recovery from his ankle injury. He played approximately 20 minutes in the draw against Ecuador on Friday and participated in Monday&#8217;s training session.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think the reaction after the 20 minutes he played [against Ecuador] was good. His ankle reacted very well and I hope he will be available tomorrow. We need to wait for today&#8217;s reaction as well, but I think he is much better than when he arrived.<\/p><cite>Mauricio Pochettino<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>On the other hand, Fulham defender Antonee Robinson has been ruled out of the match due to persistent knee problems.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Since the beginning of the concentration, he has a small problem in his knee, a little pain. We are managing it in the best way, but he still can&#8217;t participate in training and surely he won&#8217;t be able to play tomorrow.<\/p><cite>Mauricio Pochettino<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nRegarding the lineup against Australia, Pochettino is considering whether to maintain the same tactical scheme or give opportunities to other players.\n\nIt is likely that a combination of both will be seen, although the Argentine coach is inclined to make changes.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A player who can maybe [play] tomorrow [and] have the opportunity to perform and say &#8216;Hey, be careful because I&#8217;m knocking on the door and I can also be in the World Cup&#8217;. I think more this than [keeping things the same] and surely we are maybe going to [make] changes and maybe change the shape.<\/p><cite>Mauricio Pochettino<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nPochettino considers Australia to be a solid team in its game ideas and expects an aggressive match, similar to that of Ecuador.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think they are going to force us to give our best too, to match in different aspects. Not only in the game plan, but in the duels, but in situations that are going to happen on the field, which we need to manage better and better and which we need to improve. Australia is going to help in this way.<\/p><cite>Mauricio Pochettino<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMMERCE CITY, Colorado \u2013 US National Team coach Mauricio Pochettino is evaluating Christian Pulisic&#8217;s situation for the upcoming friendly against Australia. The final decision will be made on Tuesday. Pulisic, who plays for AC Milan, has shown a good recovery from his ankle injury. He played approximately 20 minutes in the draw against Ecuador on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9787,428,2781,2661],"class_list":{"0":"post-50915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-antonee-robinson","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-christian-pulisic","10":"tag-pochettino"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}