{"id":495923,"date":"2026-06-16T17:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/495923\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:37:06","slug":"france-tops-usmnt-in-2026-fih-hockey-nations-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/495923\/","title":{"rendered":"France Tops USMNT in 2026 FIH Hockey Nations Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key Moments:<\/p>\n<p>12\u2019 France scored off the far post, 1-0<\/p>\n<p>15\u2019 Sekayi Charasika equalized, 1-1 <\/p>\n<p>23\u2019 Allard Andr\u00e9 De La Porte with back-to-back saves<\/p>\n<p>30\u2019 France penalty corner<\/p>\n<p>33\u2019 Alberto Montilla deflected France set piece off the line<\/p>\n<p>34\u2019 France scored on a penalty corner, 2-1<\/p>\n<p>36\u2019 France tallied off a set piece, 3-1<\/p>\n<p>38\u2019 France penalty corner<\/p>\n<p>50\u2019 Allard Andr\u00e9 De La Porte with consecutive saves<\/p>\n<p>56\u2019 France set piece<\/p>\n<p>58\u2019 France converts a penalty corner, 4-1<\/p>\n<p>60\u2019 France set piece<\/p>\n<p>Noteworthy:<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Allard Andr\u00e9 De La Porte recorded his first start for USA, along with a career high 15 savesThese nations have only played one other time in 2008, with France winning 7-4<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts from Head Coach Allan Law: \u201cWe were pleased with aspects of our performance tonight, particularly our defensive discipline throughout the first half. However, if we want to continue growing and competing consistently at this level, we must improve our execution in transition moments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this level, the details matter, and as a group we understand that. We are looking forward to our next match as another opportunity to build on the progress we\u2019ve already made throughout this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next Up: The USMNT finish last in Pool B and will face the third finisher in Pool A on Friday, June 19 at 6:15 a.m. ET. All games can be streamed on <a href=\"https:\/\/watch.hockey\/home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch.Hockey<\/a> (PPV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key Moments: 12\u2019 France scored off the far post, 1-0 15\u2019 Sekayi Charasika equalized, 1-1 23\u2019 Allard Andr\u00e9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-495923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}