The United States and Wales battled to a hard-fought, carnal 1-1 gully successful the teams' World Cup Group A opener astatine the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium successful Qatar connected Monday night.
Timothy Weah scored a classy extremity successful the 36th infinitesimal to springiness the U.S. the pb astatine half-time, but Gareth Bale struck from the punishment spot precocious successful the 2nd fractional to gain Wales an important point.
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A lively opening 15 minutes saw the U.S. astir unfastened the scoring from a Wales ain extremity and a Josh Sargent header seconds apart, portion some Sergino Dest and Weston McKennie were handed yellowish cards for hard fouls.
Gregg Berhalter's broadside continued to look the much unsafe of the 2 and opened the scoring precocious successful the archetypal fractional erstwhile Weah cleverly finished disconnected his accidental from a quick-hitting counter-attack aft being played successful down the defence by Christian Pulisic.
The carnal play continued aft the goal, with Bale and Chris Mepham seeing yellowish soon earlier half-time for fouls connected Yunus Musah and Pulisic, respectively.
Wales looked overmuch amended arsenic play resumed successful the 2nd fractional and forced the U.S. to support for agelong spells, and Matt Turner came up large successful the 64th infinitesimal to extremity a almighty Ben Davies header implicit the bar.
Berhalter brought connected 3 subs arsenic the fractional unfolded to assistance the U.S. spot retired the match, with Kellyn Acosta, Haji Wright and DeAndre Yedlin coming connected and Musah, Dest and Sargent making way.
With the U.S. headed for a monolithic triumph to statesman the World Cup, Bale drew a foul from Walker Zimmerman successful the punishment country and delivered an unstoppable spot footwear to bushed Turner to level the crippled for bully contempt 10 minutes of second-half stoppage time.
The U.S. finished with 4 yellowish cards, the team's astir successful a World Cup lucifer since drafting 5 against Germany successful 2002, portion Bale were doubly cautioned successful the match.
Next up for the U.S. is simply a monolithic trial against radical leaders England connected Friday followed by a lucifer with Iran, which lost its opener 6-2 to the Three Lions, connected Nov. 29.
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