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in the run-up to today’s USA-Iran game has been a claim by former US striker Eric Wynalda around Gio Reyna’s lack of action at the tournament. Berhalter says the Dortmund player is carrying an injury while Wynalda says he has spoken to Reyna’s father and that is not the case – and the situation is causing “internal strife” in the US camp.“What I’d say is: I’ll leave it to you to decide if I asked Gio to lie about it,” Berhalter told reporters. “That’s just not who I am.
, a problem that cost them against Wales and England. Berhalter has not yet said who will play up front against Iran. “I think [the US strikers have] been OK,” Berhalter said. “When we’re evaluating the performance in the first game, Josh had a good chance at the near post and, looking at the second game, Haji was very effective on the defensive end of the game, had some good runs into the channel, very lively. Perhaps there were a couple of times when we could have been more effective with the movement in the penalty box.
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