The game was played against the backdrop of swathes of empty seats, with only 22,137 fans turning up to watch inside Atlanta’s vast 71,000-capacity Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

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Neto raced through on goal, pulled out a perfectly executed Cruyff turn, left Ryan Hollingshead on the floor, and fired into the net.