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Steve SutcliffeBBC Sport reporter<\/p>\n
Co-hosts USA lose to last kick of game against Turkeypublished at 07:23 BST<\/p>\n
07:23 BST<\/p>\n
Turkey 3-2 USA<\/p>\n
Steve Sutcliffe
BBC Sport reporter<\/p>\n
Media caption, <\/p>\n
Turkey end World Cup on high with last-gasp win over USA<\/p>\n
In Group D’s other game, eliminated Turkey ended the United States’ unbeaten start with a stoppage-time winner in Los Angeles as they recorded their first World Cup victory since 2002.<\/p>\n
Kaan Ayhan’s prodded finish with the last kick of an entertaining contest won the match for Turkey, who had fallen behind inside three minutes.<\/p>\n
Celtic defender Auston Trusty opened the scoring for the co-hosts, driving a low shot past Turkey goalkeeper Ugurcan Cakir after being left completely unmarked at a corner.<\/p>\n
His strike, which arrived just two minutes and 13 seconds into proceedings, is the second quickest goal ever scored by the US at a World Cup, after Clint Dempsey’s effort 30 seconds into a game against Ghana in 2014.<\/p>\n
However, Vincenzo Montella’s Turkey side – who had lost their two opening games – soon settled.<\/p>\n
Arda Guler equalised with Turkey’s first goal at this year’s finals with a close-range finish from Baris Alper Yilmaz’s reverse pass.<\/p>\n
And Orkun Kokcu’s shot then appeared to flick off Yilmaz’s thigh at the end of a sweeping move down the left, which again involved the impressive Real Madrid midfielder Guler, as Turkey turned the match around.<\/p>\n
Mauricio Pochettino’s USA side returned from the half-time break with more intensity and levelled courtesy of Sebastian Berhalter’s 20-yard effort into the bottom left corner.<\/p>\n
Substitute Christian Pulisic went close on three occasions as the US searched for a winner, while at the other end of the pitch, Kenan Yildiz curled wide and Yilmaz lost his footing when he seemed well positioned to score, before Ayhan turned home Can Uzun’s touch towards goal at the death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Co-hosts USA lose to last kick of game against Turkeypublished at 07:23 BST 07:23 BST Turkey 3-2 USA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-519082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}