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<\/p>\nCristiano Ronaldo and Portugal are coming to Dallas Stadium on Monday to take on European champions Spain. Ronaldo scored a penalty kick, was subbed off, and then his team was able to find a winner. It was Ronaldo’s first World Cup knockout-round goal. The game seemed destined for extra time with a 103rd-minute equalizer, but the goal was overturned due to offside.<\/p>\n
Spain dominated Austria 3-0 in Atlanta. They’re led by teenage superstar Lamine Yamal. <\/p>\n
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Soccer Football – FIFA World Cup 2026 – Round of 32 – Spain v Austria – Los Angeles Stadium, Inglewood, California, U.S. – July 2, 2026 Spain’s Lamine Yamal during the match IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters\/Jessie Alcheh<\/p>\n
It’s the first of the final 2 games for Dallas Stadium, which also hosts the July 14 Semifinal.<\/p>\n
The late game is the USMNT versus Belgium in Seattle. The USMNT is coming off a nail-biting 10-man win over Bosnia after striker Falorin Balogun was sent off with a second-half red card. Belgium was in an even more difficult spot, down 2-0 in the 85th minute against Senegal. They won 3-2 in extra time.<\/p>\n
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The teams are somewhat familiar with each other. Belgium dominated the U.S. in a March friendly in Atlanta 5-2. Little Elm’s Weston McKennie<\/a> opened the scoring, but Belgium scored 4 in the second half. They also played in the 2014 World Cup. Belgium won 2-1 despite a record-breaking performance by Tim Howard<\/a>; it’s a heartbreaking loss many USMNT fans are looking to purge from their memory with a win on Monday.<\/p>\n The winners of Monday’s games will play Friday at 2 p.m. in Los Angeles. The winner of that game would be coming to Dallas Stadium for a Tuesday semifinal, likely against France or Morocco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal are coming to Dallas Stadium on Monday to take on European champions Spain. Ronaldo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3691,150,11718,102,581,104,103,9922,16601,9611,122316,3692],"class_list":["post-360103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-arlington","tag-atlanta","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-seattle","tag-spain","tag-usmnt","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}