{"id":748340,"date":"2026-06-20T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748340\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:10:10","slug":"world-cup-2026-live-updates-u-s-beats-australia-2-0-to-clinch-spot-in-knockout-round-next-brazil-vs-haiti-updates-analysis-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748340\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 live updates: U.S. beats Australia 2-0 to clinch spot in knockout round. Next: Brazil vs. Haiti updates, analysis and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"iz\">Australia beat T\u00fcrkiye with a perfectly executed game plan in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World Cup<\/a> opener but will need to find another level to get a result against confident co-hosts the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/soccer\/world-cup\/united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United States<\/a>, coach Tony Popovic said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"j2\">Australia began their campaign with a superb 2-0 win over T\u00fcrkiye, sitting deep and springing on the counter to devastating effect to give themselves a great chance of reaching the knockout stages.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260619-australia-turkey-world-cup-mn-1340-af0478.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" alt=\"Connor Metcalfe of Australia celebrates scoring his team's second goal against Turkey on June 13, 2026 in Vancouver, British Columbia. \" class=\"block\" q:id=\"j6\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption mb-0 _caption_1r9t6_8\" q:key=\"Gg_6\">Connor Metcalfe of Australia celebrates scoring his team&#8217;s second goal against Turkey on June 13.\u00a0Dean Mouhtaropoulos \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"jc\">However, the U.S. is also coming into the match on a high after dismantling Paraguay 4-1, though the fitness of their influential winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reutersconnect.com\/all?search=all%3AL6N42Q1GR&amp;linkedFromStory=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christian Pulisic<\/a> is a concern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"jf\">Popovic said his side should embrace the challenge of facing the U.S. in their backyard, but was under no illusions about the difficulty of their task.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"ji\">\u201cWe know it will be a different type of challenge,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cPlaying the host nation here as well is a wonderful challenge, but also a wonderful opportunity for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia beat T\u00fcrkiye with a perfectly executed game plan in their World Cup opener but will need to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-748340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}