{"id":746819,"date":"2026-06-19T14:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746819\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:18:12","slug":"australia-v-usa-live-fifa-world-cup-2026-score-updates-and-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746819\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia v USA LIVE: FIFA World Cup 2026 score, updates and reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bodyParagaph\">Hello and welcome to all football fans \u2014 both old heads and recent bandwagoners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyParagaph\">It&#8217;s a high-stakes day for the Socceroos, who will face what looks, on paper, to be a tough USA squad in their second\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways mui-55jsqp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-clickevent=\"{&quot;elementType&quot;:&quot;LinkEmbed&quot;,&quot;clickURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/sport\/fifa-world-cup-2026&quot;,&quot;clickType&quot;:&quot;clickSource&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/sport\/fifa-world-cup-2026\" data-testid=\"external-link\">FIFA 2026 World Cup<\/a>\u00a0match in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyParagaph\">The Socceroos put on a spectacular display against T\u00fcrkiye in their opener on Sunday, while the USA routed Paraguay 4-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyParagaph\">The winner of this match will likely top Group D and be given a slightly easier path through the knock-out stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyParagaph\">We&#8217;re going to be live-blogging the whole match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyParagaph\">The match starts at 5am AEST, and you can watch it\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways mui-55jsqp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-clickevent=\"{&quot;elementType&quot;:&quot;LinkEmbed&quot;,&quot;clickURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/sport\/fifa-world-cup-2026\/how-to-watch&quot;,&quot;clickType&quot;:&quot;clickSource&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/sport\/fifa-world-cup-2026\/how-to-watch\" data-testid=\"external-link\">live and free on SBS and SBS On Demand.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyParagaph\">If you&#8217;re new to the Socceroos or the World Cup, or just wanting to brush up, we&#8217;ve put together some helpful guides to get you ready for kick-off:<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyParagaph\">Looking forward to having you with us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodyParagaph\">\u2014 Madeleine Wedesweiler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello and welcome to all football fans \u2014 both old heads and recent bandwagoners. It&#8217;s a high-stakes day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-746819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}