A youthful United States side beat Chile 4-2 in a friendly in St. Louis on Tuesday night, and one of its goal scorers made history in the process.

With the U.S. leading 3-2, Borussia Dortmund teenager Mathis Albert put the game away with the Americans’ final goal of the night and became the youngest goal scorer in program history, besting a mark set by Christian Pulisic.

Albert’s goal came at 17 years, 131 days old, making him the youngest U.S. men’s scorer in the modern era (since 1988). Pulisic had set the mark at the age of 17 years, 253 days when he was a rising star with Dortmund.

The U.S. side that started the game against Chile had the youngest average age — at 23 years, 25 days — of any XI since Mauricio Pochettino took over as coach in September 2024. One of those players — Julian Hall — scored the second goal for the U.S. and became the youngest to find the back of the net in his first two games at the senior level for the Americans.

“It’s been amazing to share the field with some amazing players, and they put me in the right spot, and I’m just doing as much as I can to put them away,” Hall said after his second-half header leveled the score at 2.

The 18-year-old Hall, who plays for the New York Red Bulls, also scored in Saturday’s 4-1 win over Peru. His coach with the Red Bulls is former U.S. star midfielder Michael Bradley, and Hall said Bradley’s influence has been immense.

“It’s been amazing,” Hall said of Bradley. “We have a lot of young guys on our team — and including Adri [Mehmeti], who’s here, as well — and he’s helped us so much in our development. And you know, he’s a big reason as to why me and him are here right now. So, he’s been amazing.

“He gave us amazing advice before we got here — and, yeah, he’s been awesome.”

Albert’s goal against Chile came in second-half stoppage time when he redirected a pass in off the crossbar and it narrowly bounced down over the goal line.

“Sometimes, I feel that I believe more, more, more, much more in the talent of the players here in the U.S. than some people that talk in the media,” Pochettino said after the game.

“It’s so important that the people really trust in the process, trust in the player and respect the player. If the player performs well, it’s easy to speak well; but when they don’t perform … it’s OK to say, ‘You didn’t perform well,’ but another is to disrespect [the player].”

The Americans have two friendlies left in the September/October international window: against Mexico on Saturday and Canada on Oct. 6.

Pulisic was not called into the current U.S. squad for these friendlies, with Pochettino electing to give a host of younger players — including 17-year-old Cavan Sullivan of the Philadelphia Union, who came on as a sub Tuesday — a chance in the first games since the Americans lost to Belgium in the round of 16 at the World Cup on July 6.

In all, 11 players — including Sullivan and seven other teenagers — made their first appearances for the U.S. in the game against Peru.

“As everyone knows, we have a lot of new young guys here making their debuts, and everyone’s out there playing like this is their 100th cap almost,” Hall added. “It’s been awesome to share the field with those guys. I grew up playing against a lot of these guys, and they’ve been amazing.”

ESPN’s Cesar Hernandez contributed to this report.