The US had been the last of the three co-hosts of the World Cup left in the competition following Mexico’s defeat by England on Monday and Canada’s loss to Morocco on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Mauricio Pochettino’s side were hoping to reach the quarter-finals for the first time since 2002 but underwhelmed in their biggest men’s match in a generation.<\/p>\n
But the build-up to the fixture was overshadowed by Fifa’s decision to put Balogun’s one-match ban on hold.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old had appeared certain to miss the match in Seattle after being shown a straight red card for a foul on Bosnia-Herzegovina defender Tarik Muharemovic in the previous round.<\/p>\n
But on Sunday Fifa suspended the automatic one-match ban for 12 months, leading to widespread criticism.<\/p>\n
Trump said on Monday, before the tie, that he asked Fifa to review Balogun’s ban, which he said would have left a “big stain” on the tournament.<\/p>\n
Balogun was unable to add to his three goals though, with his only big chance, from a tight angle, smartly saved by Belgium keeper Thibaut Courtois in the final 10 minutes. <\/p>\n
The pressure appeared to get to US who struggled to create meaningful chances. <\/p>\n
They have now fallen at the last-16 stage at four of the past past five World Cups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US had been the last of the three co-hosts of the World Cup left in the competition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-677843","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}