Robinson had right knee surgery on May 27, two days after Fulham’s Premier League finale. He has experienced pain in his knee since, limiting him to four matches this season — three as a substitute in the league and one start in the English League Cup.<\/p>\n
– Top 50 USMNT players, ranked by club form: A new No. 1 leads the American pool<\/a> His most recent appearance was against Aston Villa<\/a> on Sept. 28.<\/p>\n But Robinson lasted the full 90 minutes on Saturday as Fulham won 3-2 at Burnley<\/a> to move up to 13th in the Premier League.<\/p>\n The appearance will boost his prospects of being available for next summer’s World Cup, which the U.S. is co-hosting. He hasn’t played at all for the Americans in their international matches this season.<\/p>\n Mauricio Pochettino’s side has four friendlies remaining before it begins its World Cup campaign against Paraguay at SoFi stadium in Inglewood, California, on June 12.<\/p>\n The U.S. is scheduled to play Belgium<\/a> on March 28 at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Portugal<\/a> at the same venue three days later, followed by Senegal<\/a> in Charlotte on May 31 and then Germany<\/a> in Chicago on June 6.<\/p>\n Robinson started all four games as the U.S. reached the round of 16 at the last World Cup in Qatar in 2022.<\/p>\n Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 13, 2025, 12:46 PM ET United States left-back Antonee Robinson was handed his first Premier League start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-347032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
– U.S. to face Senegal in May ahead of World Cup<\/a>
– Pulisic’s form and fitness make him undroppable for the USMNT at 2026 World Cup<\/a><\/p>\nAntonee Robinson made his first Premier League start of the season in Fulham’s clash with Burnley.\u00a0Molly Darlington\/Getty Images<\/p>\n