the genius isnt the double pivot its that an Argentine looked at American players and refused to coach them like Americans no athleticism worship no organization standing in for instinct hes teaching desire as a system thats the import we needed and never had the nerve to buy
Poch is playing a #10 in a double pivot to rely in proximity between them and to have a socio-affective superiority between the lines to maximise central progression.
I’m also seeing paralela cheia’s on Pulisic’s side with Robinson holding the width and Pulisic in half-spaces with Dest in minimum width, so Poch is having 3 number #10’s in between the lines, a #10 in a double pivot and also Balogun to connect and associate.
This is very, very relationism-esque and very beautiful stuff from USMNT.
Poch is looking to play through and inside the block, not over / around it, inside diagonals in the final 3rd and diagonal affordances in the 1st and 2nd can be seen all game long.