The USA have taken the lead against Latvia in their World Cup warm-up friendly at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut.

Fulham FC forward Brian McBride opened the scoring with a goal just two minutes before the half-time whistle to take Bruce Arena's team into half-time 1-0 up.

(FULL-TIME UPDATE TO FOLLOW)

Full team line-up for USA V Latvia:

USA starting line-up:

8 Kasey Keller
6 Steve Cherundolo
13 Jim Conrad
7 Eddie Lewis
23 Eddie Pope
17 DaMarcus Beasley
21 Landon Donovan
4 Pablo Mastroeni
5 John O'Brien
9 Eddie Johnson
20 Brian McBride

USA substitutes:

19 Marcus Hahnemann
1 Tim Howard
2 Chris Albright
12 Gregg Berhalter
22 Oguchi Onyewu
15 Bobby Convey
14 Ben Olsen
24 Michael Bradley
11 Brian Ching
16 Josh Wolff

Latvia starting line-up:

Alexsandrs Kolinko 1
Deniss Ivanovs 6
Oskars Klava 17
Maris Smirnovs 14
Dzintars Zirnis 4
Vitalijs Astafjevs 3
Juris Laizans 5
Andrejs Rubins 10
Genadijs Solonicins 15
Maris Verpakovskis 9
Andrejs Prohorenkovs 11

Latvia substitutes:

Anderjs Piedels 12
Aleksandrs Isakovs 7
Arturs Zakresevskis 2
Kristaps Blanks 18
Viktors Morozs 8
Aleksejs Visnakovs 13
Gatis Kalnins 19
Girts Karlsons 20

(No substites used so far)

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