USA coach Greg Berhalter says Chelsea fans need to be patient with Christian Pulisic.

The American has struggled for game-time since arriving from Borussia Dortmund this summer.

But Pulisic showed his stuff on Wednesday against Ajax, setting up Michy Batshuayi's winner.

And Berhalter think there'll be plenty more of those moments from the 21-year-old.

Berhalter said: "There's a lot of pressure that he's under. He's at a big club. What I really like about where he is right now is that there's a lot of young players.

"There's a manager who is a manager who is used to working with young players, has that philosophy who wants to build this club with this group of talent and he fits perfectly into that mould.

"I think Frank Lampard has been trying to say: the outside stuff is not real, it's really not – when you analyse the transfer fee, when you analyse who he's replacing, when you analyse he's the only guy they bought.

"That's not real. What's real is this kid is in the Premier League, trying to make his name, trying to perform. "That's the only thing that counts.

"And let's not forget that he's not the only player in the world who has had a challenge adapting at the beginning of a move. Look at Griezmann in Barcelona , Hazard in Real Madrid .

"These are top, top players. Salah and De Bruyne at Chelsea, of course. The list goes on and on. Because he was the only transfer this year, a lot of attention is placed on him."