Gio Reyna earned back-to-back starts for the U.S. men’s national team this month and now heads back to Borussia Dortmund with a major confidence boost.
Reyna earned SBI Man of the Match honors at Geodis Park in the USMNT’s 4-0 friendly win over Ghana on Tuesday night. The AC Milan midfielder registered his first international brace, logging 45 minutes for the second-straight match.
The 20-year-old was in the right spot to deliver the opening goal in the 10th minute, volleying home inside of the Ghana box for a 1-0 lead. Sergino Dest’s original shot was blocked in the box, but Reyna was left open to deliver a confident strike into the back of the net.
After Christian Pulisic and Balogun both netted goals to extend the USMNT’s lead to 3-0, Reyna saved his best moment for last. On an indirect free kick in the box, Reyna rifled a right-footed shot into the top-right corner for a 4-0 USMNT lead heading into half-time.
Reyna led all players with two fouls drawn, while he also won four of seven duels, and completed 97% of his passes.
After a summer injury delayed his start to the season, Reyna will now return to Borussia Dortmund with aspirations of playing a key role through the rest of the fall.
Reyna edged out Timothy Weah, Sergino Dest, and Christian Pulisic for Man of the Match honors.
What did you think of Reyna’s performance tonight and throughout the October window? Do you see him carrying over these performances to club level?
Share your thoughts below.
When did Gio transfer from BvB to AC Milan?… “Reyna earned SBI Man of the Match honors at Geodis Park in the USMNT’s 4-0 friendly win over Ghana on Tuesday night. The AC Milan midfielder registered his first international brace, logging 45 minutes for the second-straight match”….
The first half was good, and we should have scored a couple more goals (Balogun’s header, Pulisic’s run of play)….but overall was a good performance from all the starters in the game. But please keep in mind that this Ghana not the same one we’ve played in the past. I know that the FIFA rankings are flawed, but Ghana is currently ranked 60th in the world (1400 pts). That’s basically between Jamaica @ 56th (1413 pts) and El Salvador @ 76th (1307 pts) for a COCACAF comparison. Two teams that have rarely posed a problem for the USMNT. Ghana is closer in pts to these 2 teams than the US is to the 3rd best CONCACAF team (Canada @ 44 w/ 1458 pts) to give some perspective. Germany 15th in the world (1637 pts) who cleaned our clocks in the 2nd half of the first game. (US is currently 11th with 1678 pts).
If we want to contend with the top 20 teams in the world (outside of CONCACAF region) we have to do better. The coach needs to have better strategies and tactics, and the players need to perform better in general. The loss to Germany wasn’t the end of the world, but neither did the win against Ghana show we’ve arrived on the world stage. We still don’t have a “Signature” win against a Good country with this group of players and/or coaches.
Thanks for pointing that out LOS, I am dead as heck 😂. Maybe they got it confused with Pulisic who scored also too off that penalty.
I think it was Dest’s play that began most of the goal scoring opportunities. Also, he played the full 90. I think he was the MOM.
maybe he should be dropped for club form or for how he gets along with the weirdo coach.
Just because you apparently have this strong dislike for GB, you don’t need to raise it even when discussing who is MOM.
Weirdos tend to think other people are weird lol
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Dest’s club form has been great recently.
Peter Bosz is hardly a weirdo.
No argument with Gio being named MoTM. However, Sergiño Dest!
Saw a great meme, showed Claudio getting hurt against Ghana in WC, then Inigo Montoya delivering his catch phrase in The Princess Bride, followed Gio celebrating his goals.