The U.S. has opened its first home World Cup in 32 years with a dynamic 4-1 victory over Paraguay.<\/p>\n
Folarin Balogun scored twice in the Americans’ historic three-goal first half.<\/p>\n
Christian Pulisic had an assist in a stellar first-half playmaking performance for the Americans, who enthralled their Southern California fans with an aggressive attack while streaking to a 3-0 halftime lead.<\/p>\n
Gio Reyna ripped another goal in the dying moments of second-half injury time, giving the Americans four goals in a World Cup match for the first time.<\/p>\n
The U.S. scored only three goals combined in Qatar four years ago.<\/p>\n
Here’s a recap from the first match:<\/p>\n
The final kick of the game is one of the best goals of Gio Reyna’s career.<\/p>\n
Maur\u00edcio cuts the American lead to two with Paraguay’s first goal of the World Cup.<\/p>\n
A great ball by Malik Tillman and an even better finish by Folarin Balogun, whose second goal of the game gave the USMNT a 3-0 lead just before halftime.<\/p>\n
Folarin Balogun does what he does best, as he found space in the box and poked home a cross from Christian Pulisic to put the USMNT up 2-0.<\/p>\n
Dami\u00e1n Bobadilla’s own goal puts the U.S. ahead in the opening 10 minutes against Paraguay.<\/p>\n
Here’s the reaction from fans in Philadelphia after going up 1-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. has opened its first home World Cup in 32 years with a dynamic 4-1 victory over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[145893,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-360031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-145893","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}