Mauricio Pochettino’s surprising United States men’s national team roster gets to test itself agains two terrific Asian foes starting with South Korea on Saturday in Harrison, New Jersey.

Pochettino opted against calling in a number of big-name players, as Weston McKennie again misses out and is joining in exclusion by recently-transferred USMNT stars Giovanni Reyna, Malik Tillman, and Johnny Cardoso. Just-healthy Antonee Robinson and Ricardo Pepi are also given breaks, and that gives big chances to some lesser-known names against these strong visitors.

MORE — How will USMNT line up versus South Korea?

South Korea have lost just once in the last 19 months, and it was last time out against Japan — a solid team and the Yanks’ next opponent. The Taegeuk Warriors boast an 11W-5D-1L recor

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