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SAN JOSE, Calif.—All week coach Bruce Arena swore that a different U.S. team would take the field Friday night in a crucial World Cup qualifying match here against Honduras.
Many of the names would be familiar, but the group would play with a simple plan to dig its way out of the hole it dug for itself in November, and would fight and compete for 90 minutes.
As it turned out, all the team needed to put the game away was a…