{"id":9075,"date":"2026-03-28T22:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/9075\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T22:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:54:12","slug":"belgium-defeat-united-states-in-world-cup-tune-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/9075\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium defeat United States in World Cup tune-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USMNT, who saw their five-match unbeaten streak snapped, will look to rebound against Portugal on Tuesday in Atlanta in the penultimate international window before this summer&#8217;s World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a strong start for the United States, who took a deserved lead in the 39th minute, with Weston McKennie tapping in an Antonee Robinson corner kick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Belgium leveled just before halftime with Zeno Debast corralling a long rebound of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/matt-turner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Turner<\/a> save and firing a low blast past the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/new-england-revolution\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New England Revolution<\/a> goalkeeper from distance.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku\u2019s influence, Belgium, No. 9 in the world in the <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.fifa.com\/fifa-world-ranking\/men\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest FIFA rankings<\/a>, took control of the match after halftime, taking a 2-1 lead in the 53rd minute courtesy of Amadou Onana.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charles De Ketelaere struck from the penalty spot six minutes later after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/charlotte-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte FC<\/a> defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/tim-ream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Ream<\/a> was ruled, following Video Review, to have handled the ball. And Dodi Luk\u00e9bakio added a left-footed golazo in the 68th minute before making it a brace eight minutes from full time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A second-half silver lining came via an 87th-minute goal from former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/charlotte-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte FC<\/a> star Patrick Agyemang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USMNT, who saw their five-match unbeaten streak snapped, will look to rebound against Portugal on Tuesday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,6248,4852,87,4853],"class_list":["post-9075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-match-reaction","tag-sendtonews","tag-united-states","tag-usavsbel-03-28-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116309266479774247","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075","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=9075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}