{"id":784010,"date":"2026-07-07T04:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784010\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T04:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:02:12","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-live-scores-day-26-usa-vs-belgium-portugal-vs-spain-results-highlights-latest-news-belgium-defeat-usa-ronaldo-in-tears-as-arch-rivals-end-iconic-tortured-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784010\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026 LIVE scores, Day 26: USA vs Belgium, Portugal vs Spain results, highlights, latest news; Belgium defeat USA; Ronaldo in tears as arch-rivals end iconic, tortured career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking after the game, coach Mauricio Pochettino said his team did not approach the game as they should have for a World Cup match. <\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone saw from the beginning that we did not connect with the game. We were never in the game. Even when we scored, we scored the goal for 1-1, we conceded in the next action. It was really tough from the beginning,\u201d said Pochettino.<\/p>\n

\u201cI congratulate Belgium. They were better than us. It wasn\u2019t our day. That is not to find excuses, because we didn\u2019t show what this team normally can show. That is a reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to learn. It\u2019s a process. We need to assess this game and we need to see why we didn\u2019t approach it in the same way as the rest of the World Cup.\u201d <\/p>\n

He also took responsibility for the loss to 4-1 loss to Belgium.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe the explanation is easy: it wasn\u2019t our day, collectively or individually. Of course, the person with the most responsibility is myself,\u201d he siad further. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd yes, we need to see and check what we did, because it wasn\u2019t the performance or the way that we normally play.\u201d<\/p>\n

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United States head coach Mauricio Pochettino comforts Chris Richards.\u00a0AP Photo\/Maddy Grassy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking after the game, coach Mauricio Pochettino said his team did not approach the game as they should…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-784010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784010","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=784010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}