{"id":233250,"date":"2025-07-02T23:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233250\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T23:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:43:10","slug":"usa-vs-guatemala-live-updates-score-highlights-analysis-as-usmnt-aim-for-spot-in-gold-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233250\/","title":{"rendered":"USA vs. Guatemala live updates: Score, highlights, analysis as USMNT aim for spot in Gold Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pair of penalty shootout survivors collide in St. Louis on Wednesday (7 p.m. ET, FS1) with a spot in the Gold Cup final on the line.<\/p>\n

The U.S. men’s national team, patchwork but improving under Mauricio Pochettino, outlasted Costa Rica in a chaotic quarterfinal<\/a> and now finds itself within reach of silverware. While questions linger about depth and experience, a clearer identity is beginning to take shape<\/a>. Pochettino’s vision seems to taking hold within the group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Guatemala, meanwhile, arrive as the tournament’s Cinderella story. Guatemala stunned Canada<\/a> to reach its first semifinal in nearly 30 years and now aim to make history. Led by dual-national striker Rubio Rubin<\/a> and veteran defender Aaron Herrera, Los Chapines are compact, committed and dangerous in transition.<\/p>\n

Both teams have momentum. Both feel the moment. But only one will get to Houston.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, July 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

USA vs. Guatemala (7 p.m. ET, FS1)<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow along with Yahoo Sports for live updates, highlights and more from the 2025 Gold Cup semifinal in St. Louis:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of penalty shootout survivors collide in St. Louis on Wednesday (7 p.m. ET, FS1) with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[91443,12051,6598,91444,48160,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-233250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-aaron-herrera","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-mauricio-pochettino","11":"tag-rubio-rubin","12":"tag-st-louis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114786297645228511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}