Mauricio Pochettino and USMNT have a striker injury problem before the Nations League Finals

Josh Sargent played a total of 117 minutes in World Cup qualifying for the United States ahead of the 2022 tournament in Qatar, all of them in the first window in September 2021, including his lone start in the opening qualifier against El Salvador. Fourteen months after that start in El Salvador, Sargent was in the starting lineup when the U.S. kicked off its World Cup campaign in Doha against Wales. Form and fitness can be a funny thing in international soccer. A red-hot striker can suddenly be out for the wrong two weeks of the wrong month and miss out on a window. An ill-timed absence can...