There are very few players that are quite as clutch as Christian Pulisic when it comes to big game moments for their national side when it really matters. The Chelsea forward proved it yet again on Tuesday night as he scored the only goal in a tense affair with Iran in the final match of group B.
The match was a straight shootout between the two nations as the USMNT needed a victory to progress while their opponents needed to avoid defeat. If that wasn't enough to set the scene for a huge match, the underlying story was the political undertones from such a match up, while a social media post from the US led to calls for them to be kicked out of the competition.
It naturally created a cagey affair as a game of cat and mouse played out between two sides that had everything on the line in this match. That pattern would be broken just before the break as Pulisic gambled on a ball across from Sergino Dest to poke the ball home.
