Key events6m agoPreamble20m agoThe lineups!PreambleThe wait is nearly over. Six days before the start of the World Cup, the United States get one final chance to cut their teeth on elite opposition as Mauricio Pochettino’s side plays host to Germany before an expected capacity crowd at Soldier Field, the soon-to-be-former home of the NFL’s Chicago Bears.The Americans arrive with some momentum after last week’s entertaining 3-2 victory over Senegal in Charlotte, where goals from Sergiño Dest, Christian Pulisic and Folarin Balogun helped the USMNT quell a second-half fightback from Sadio Mané and co. Today’s challenge, at least on paper, stands to be more imposing. Germany, the four-time world champions sitting at 10th in Fifa rankings, provide the kind of measuring-stick opponent the United States are likely to encounter should they advance to the knockout stage later this month. The teams have met three times at the World Cup, most memorably in the Americans’ controversial 1-0 quarter-final defeat in 2002. (Try mentioning Torsten Frings to US supporters of a certain age.)Pochettino makes five changes from the Senegal win, with Matt Freese starting in goal alongside Weston McKennie, Malik Tillman, Miles Robinson and Balogun. Tim Ream captains the side, while Pulisic earns his 86th cap and enters within one goal of Eric Wynalda for fourth place on the USMNT’s all-time scoring table.The lineups are in. We should be under way in just about half an hour.The lineups!Freese; A Robinson, Ream (C), M Robinson, Freeman; Adams, McKennie; Pulisic, Tillman, Dest; BalogunGermanyBaumann; Kimmich (C), Tah, Schlotterbeck, Brown; Nmecha, Pavlovic; Sané, Musiala, Wirtz; HavertzBryan will be here shortly. In the meantime here’s the latest on the Chris Richards situation.