{"id":738354,"date":"2026-07-02T05:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738354\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:53:09","slug":"usa-survive-red-card-to-beat-bosnia-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738354\/","title":{"rendered":"USA survive red card to beat Bosnia &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-07-02T04:54:07+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Santa Clara<\/p>\n<p>The United States reached the World Cup Round of 16 on Wednesday, beating Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-0 at San Francisco Bay Area Stadium after surviving most of the second half with 10 men.<\/p>\n<p>Folarin Balogun opened the scoring before halftime, but was sent off in the 64th minute after a VAR review for a challenge on Tarik Muharemovic. Malik Tillman sealed the win in the 82nd minute with a free kick, giving the co-hosts their first men\u2019s World Cup knockout victory since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The United States will face Belgium in the Round of 16 in Seattle, but Balogun will miss the match through suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Bosnia pushed after the red card but could not turn second-half pressure into a goal, with the US defense holding firm through the closing stages. The defeat ends their first World Cup knockout appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-02T04:54:07+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Santa Clara The United States reached the World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[122488,16993,4,450,451,3,452,453,317536],"class_list":["post-738354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-usa-survive-red-card-to-beat-bosnia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738354","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=738354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}