{"id":714553,"date":"2026-06-20T00:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714553\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T00:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:39:10","slug":"world-cup-2026-live-updates-u-s-beats-australia-2-0-to-clinch-spot-in-knockout-round-next-brazil-vs-haiti-updates-analysis-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714553\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 live updates: U.S. beats Australia 2-0 to clinch spot in knockout round. Next: Brazil vs. Haiti updates, analysis and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia beat T\u00fcrkiye with a perfectly executed game plan in their World Cup<\/a> opener but will need to find another level to get a result against confident co-hosts the United States<\/a>, coach Tony Popovic said yesterday.<\/p>\n

Australia began their campaign with a superb 2-0 win over T\u00fcrkiye, sitting deep and springing on the counter to devastating effect to give themselves a great chance of reaching the knockout stages.<\/p>\n

\"Connor<\/p>\n

Connor Metcalfe of Australia celebrates scoring his team’s second goal against Turkey on June 13.\u00a0Dean Mouhtaropoulos \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

However, the U.S. is also coming into the match on a high after dismantling Paraguay 4-1, though the fitness of their influential winger Christian Pulisic<\/a> is a concern.<\/p>\n

Popovic said his side should embrace the challenge of facing the U.S. in their backyard, but was under no illusions about the difficulty of their task.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know it will be a different type of challenge,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cPlaying the host nation here as well is a wonderful challenge, but also a wonderful opportunity for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia beat T\u00fcrkiye with a perfectly executed game plan in their World Cup opener but will need to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-714553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714553","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=714553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}