Philadelphia Union<\/a>‘s 16-year-old prodigy Cavan Sullivan<\/a> and New England Revolution<\/a>‘s 18-year-old Peyton Miller<\/a> both started alongside 19-year-old Orlando City<\/a> striker Ellis in a team showing seven changes to the side beaten 4-1 by Belgium<\/a> in the World Cup’s last 16 in July.<\/p>\n The infusion of youth was quick to make its mark<\/a>, with Ellis glancing in an inviting free-kick from Gio Reyna<\/a> after just four minutes in a dream start at his home stadium.<\/p>\n “I’ve probably been dreaming about this day, like, 500 or 1,000 times in my life since I was five years old,” Ellis said afterwards. “I can’t even describe. It’s just crazy.”<\/p>\n Peru<\/a> got back on level terms after just 15 minutes when veteran striker Gianluca Lapadula<\/a> cleverly headed home a Yoshimar Yotun<\/a> cross.<\/p>\n The United States<\/a> regained the lead in the second half when another teenager – the 17-year-old substitute Mathis Albert<\/a> – burst clear down the left and was knocked to the ground by Jesus Pretell<\/a>.<\/p>\n Despite the foul beginning just outside the area, Jamaican referee Steffon Dewar<\/a> pointed to the spot and Malik Tillman<\/a> stepped up to fire home the penalty for 2-1.<\/p>\n It got better for Pochettino’s side on 72 minutes when 18-year-old substitute Hall<\/a> bundled in a Sebastian Berhalter<\/a> cross to make it 3-1.<\/p>\n Berhalter then completed the scoring with a thunderous effort from just outside the area in the dying minutes to put the seal on an impressive display for the hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teenage debutants Justin Ellis and Julian Hall both scored as a youthful United States team defeated Peru 4-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-411840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Match](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/e53d0e63-7d67-407e-9501-ab0b562f85a5.jpg\" "\\"Match")
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