{"id":85332,"date":"2025-10-19T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/85332\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:52:08","slug":"americans-abroad-in-form-folarin-balogun-continues-scoring-streak-tim-weah-and-marseille-go-top-but-injuries-temper-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/85332\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Abroad: In-form Folarin Balogun continues scoring streak, Tim Weah and Marseille go top, but injuries temper mood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\">GOAL reviews the major takeaways from Americans playing in Europe, including yet another goal from the Monaco striker<\/p>\n<p>The return to club soccer after an international break is always a bit strange. There&#8217;s a sense of relief for the casual fan, but a lack of fluidity in the actual product. Games sometimes seem jetlagged.<\/p>\n<p>It can be challenging for U.S. internationals, who typically have to fly back across continents to play for their clubs. Some can look half awake.<\/p>\n<p>But not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-us\/lists\/usmnt-folarin-balogun-exclusive\/bltdbf57811368b4647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Folarin Balogun, who was excellent for the USMNT<\/a> in recent friendlies and recaptured the same form for his club. Tim Weah was less effective in a U.S. jersey, but has been instrumental in Marseille&#8217;s unlikely march to the top of Ligue 1. Tyler Adams, too, looked tidy in what was a frenetic game.<\/p>\n<p>And even if Christian Pulisic is out, nursing a low-grade hamstring injury, Mauricio Pochettino can still take heart from a number of solid showings from the types of players who will be looking to make their case for a USMNT spot at the World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GOAL looks at the major takeaways from this weekend&#8217;s Americans Abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOAL reviews the major takeaways from Americans playing in Europe, including yet another goal from the Monaco striker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[283,58777,2664,85,46,28286,42614,105,58778,2586],"class_list":["post-85332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-analysis","tag-f-balogun","tag-features","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-marseille","tag-monaco","tag-sports","tag-t-weah","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85332","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=85332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}