Barrera on song, Specs solid

Pablo Barrera and Jonathan Spector were both in action on American soil this weekend.

Barrera was outstanding on the right wing for Mexico in a 3-1 win against Paraguay in Oakland, California. The flying winger made the first with a cross to the near post for Manchester United forwar Javier Hernandez to head in before playing a part in the build-up for Andres Guardado to score the second. Barrera could feature once more against Venezuela in San Diego on Tuesday.

Spector played the first 45 minutes in front of 80,000 fans in New Jersey as the United States drew 1-1 at home with Lionel Messi's Argentina thanks to Juan Agedelo's equaliser on the hour after Esteban Cambiasso had opened the scoring. The versatile Hammer was used at right-back and could play again when the US take their turn to play Paraguay in Nashville on Tuesday.