Borussia Dortmund youngster Christian Pulisic scored twice for the USA on Friday against St. Vincent. - © © gettyimages / Jamie Sabau
Borussia Dortmund youngster Christian Pulisic scored twice for the USA on Friday against St. Vincent. - © © gettyimages / Jamie Sabau

Christian Pulisic and Bobby Wood inspire USMNT to victory against St. Vincent

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Borussia Dortmund's Christian Pulisic became the youngest USMNT scorer in FIFA World Cup qualifying history on Friday, scoring twice as the USA ran out 6-0 victors against St. Vincent at the Arnos Vale Stadium in Kingstown.

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Aged 17 years and 349 days, the Dortmund attacking midfielder scored the fourth goal of the victory in the 71st minute - only five minutes after coming on as a substitute.

Pulisic promptly teed up Sacha Kljestan for the USMNT's fifth goal in the 78th minute before adding an excellent second goal - his third international strike - from the edge of the box in injury time to round off a comfortable 6-0 win.

Jürgen Klinsmann's side will secure early qualification for the final round of CONCACAF 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifying if Trinidad&Tobago beat Guatemala later on Friday.

When Pulisic replaced Borussia Mönchengladbach's Fabian Johnson the USA were three goals to the good, a scoreline largely down to the efforts of Hamburger SV's Bobby Wood. The 23-year-old opened the scoring for the USMNT in the 28th minute with a fine finish, before winning the penalty that Jozy Altidore converted to make it 3-0 two minutes before the interval.

A summer arrival at Hamburg, Wood's first-ever Bundesliga goal was chosen as the Matchday 1 Goal of the Week by bundesliga.com's Twitter users.

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