{"id":26980,"date":"2026-07-07T02:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/26980\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T02:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:35:12","slug":"usa-exit-world-cup-vs-belgium-in-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/26980\/","title":{"rendered":"USA exit World Cup vs. Belgium in Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/us-men-s-national-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a> were eliminated from the 2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/fifa-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> in the Round of 16 on Monday evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/fifa-world-cup\/2026\/matches\/usavsbel-07-06-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">falling 4-1<\/a> to Belgium at Seattle Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The USMNT faced an uphill battle after Charles De Ketelaere netted a ninth-minute opener.<\/p>\n<p>Malik Tillman&#8217;s deflected free-kick equalizer \u2013 his second set-piece goal in as many World Cup matches \u2013 shortly after the half-hour mark briefly flipped the game on its head, only for Belgium to retake their lead via De Ketelaere&#8217;s brace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The USMNT&#8217;s hopes of a comeback were dented in the second half, with Hans Vanaken extending Belgium&#8217;s lead in the 57th minute before Romelu Lukaku rounded out the result in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>In the quarterfinals, the Red Devils will face Spain on July 10 at Los Angeles Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0United States were eliminated from the 2026\u00a0FIFA World Cup in the Round of 16 on Monday evening, falling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,6248,4852,87,14752,1849],"class_list":["post-26980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-match-reaction","tag-sendtonews","tag-united-states","tag-usavsbel-07-06-2026","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116876366772131248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26980","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=26980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}