4-1 win over Paraguay last week<\/a>. He was taken off at half-time but insisted he was not carrying a serious injury.<\/p>\n\u201cI just got a bit of a kick first half, so I\u2019m really hoping that it\u2019s nothing. Taking a little bit of precaution today, but I\u2019m hoping I\u2019ll be fine the next few days,\u201d he said after the match.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Pulisic practiced away from the rest of his teammates in what US Soccer called a \u201cmodified training session [and] gym and individual field work.\u201d Pochettino gave a brief assessment when asked about the 27-year-old\u2019s fitness. \u201cGood,\u201d the US coach said.<\/p>\n
Midfielder Tyler Adams was also upbeat about Pulisic\u2019s chances of starting on Friday, although he was more forthcoming than his coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cChristian will be ready, everyone. Let\u2019s relax,\u201d Adams said. \u201cI think that he picked up a knock a few days before the game, and I think he got kicked in the same spot again during the game. And when you go in at half-time, things obviously get tight within the 15, 20 minute break. But he\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australia and the US started their World Cup campaigns with wins \u2013 the Socceroos beat Turkey 2-0 <\/a>\u2013 and Friday\u2019s game could decide who wins their group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mauricio Pochettino has moved to allay concerns over Christian Pulisic\u2019s fitness as the US prepare for their World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-494947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}