{"id":25808,"date":"2026-07-02T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/25808\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:24:10","slug":"usa-slight-favorites-over-belgium-to-advance-to-world-cup-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/25808\/","title":{"rendered":"USA slight favorites over Belgium to advance to World Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) &#8211; Back in March of this year, Belgium beat the United States, 5-2, in a friendly. In the grand scheme of things, that game didn\u2019t mean much, it was a preseason matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Monday, things will be much different. The United States Men\u2019s National Team is a slight favorite (-115) to advance over Belgium (-107) in their Round of 16 game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The last time these countries met in the World Cup was 2014. The Red Devils beat the Stars and Stripes, 2-1, in the Round of 16 in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Monday night, they meet in Seattle. Yeah, the atmosphere will be quite different for this one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. on FOX 8. Pregame show starts at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/07\/02\/usa-slight-favorites-over-belgium-advance-world-cup-quarterfinals\/mailto:WVUE-digitalcontent@gray.tv\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> to report it. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Subscribe to the Fox 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3ijTadOgOLbGWGC1rRy9lA?sub_confirmation=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WVUE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) &#8211; Back in March of this year, Belgium beat the United States, 5-2, in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,13221,13222,14763,5731,13223,13224,13225,3934,13226,13227,13228,13229,13230],"class_list":["post-25808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-canada2026","tag-canada26","tag-canada26canada2026fifamexico26mexico2026soccerusa26usa2026worldcupworldcup26worldcup2026futbol","tag-fifa","tag-futbol","tag-mexico2026","tag-mexico26","tag-soccer","tag-usa2026","tag-usa26","tag-worldcup","tag-worldcup2026","tag-worldcup26"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116851550636180369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}