on Tuesday morning read<\/a>: \u201cPatrick will be undergoing a further assessment of the injury later today \u2026 At this stage it would be wrong to put a timeline on his recovery.\u201d<\/p>\nUSMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino played Agyemang in both friendlies during the March international window, the Derby man\u2019s first national team appearances since last July.<\/p>\n
Agyemang has six goals in 14 USMNT games since making his debut last year, and has contributed 10 goals in 37 matches for Derby this season, helping their challenge for a playoff spot in the Championship.<\/p>\n
The injury will also rule Agyemang out of Derby\u2019s final five regular-season matches, with John Eustace\u2019s side eighth in the English second-tier, two places off the playoffs.<\/p>\n
Pochettino must name his World Cup roster by May 30. The U.S., co-hosting the tournament with Canada and Mexico, plays Paraguay, Australia and Turkey in Group D.<\/p>\n
A blow to the USMNT\u2019s depth<\/p>\n
Analysis by senior soccer writer Paul Tenorio<\/p>\n
You can make a decent argument that Agyemang might have leapfrogged Ricardo Pepi on the depth chart during the March window, when he got 65 minutes off the bench compared to the PSV Eindhoven man\u2019s 20.<\/p>\n
The 6ft 4ins (193cm) Agyemang adds a different element for the U.S. up top, and it looks like he\u2019s learned how to use his frame much more to his advantage while playing in the Championship.<\/p>\n
There looked to be a real battle for places at No 9 depth in Pochettino\u2019s squad, with presumed starter Folarin Balogun of Monaco, Pepi, Agyemang and Coventry City\u2019s Haji Wright all vying for a World Cup roster spot.<\/p>\n
A long-term injury to the Derby striker, though, feels like it has made Pochettino\u2019s decision for him, and it is a blow to the American depth ahead of the World Cup, for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States men\u2019s national team striker Patrick Agyemang has suffered a serious Achilles tendon injury, his club Derby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[21555,113962,6090,403,99,47812],"class_list":["post-569693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-derby-county","tag-fifa-mens-world-cup","tag-international-football","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-us-mens-national-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}