{"id":747558,"date":"2026-07-07T01:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/747558\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:36:27","slug":"belgium-takes-a-commanding-3-1-lead-over-usa-in-win-or-go-home-world-cup-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/747558\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium takes a commanding 3-1 lead over USA in win-or-go-home World Cup matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-07-07t003528z-1949099490-up1em7701n215-rtrmadp-3-soccer-worldcup-usa-bel.JPG\" alt=\"Belgium's Charles De Ketelaere celebrates his second goal of the match.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"4265\" width=\"6182\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmr9xhlza001v3b6r49ouytmt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Belgium has a one-goal lead at the half and it\u2019s well deserved.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmr9xiai8001x3b6rbqgaqco3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The USA looks totally different than the team that played the first four games of this tournament now that they\u2019ve run into good, if not elite, competition. The Belgians have done well to take out the USA\u2019s pressing defense and the US has not been able to attack to the extent that it would like.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmr9xjju6001y3b6rleng596s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But the biggest problem so far has been the leaky American defense, which has been a problem before this tournament and \u2013 at times \u2013 during it. On the two goals, American defenders have been beaten to key balls and looked unsure of themselves in the crucial moment.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmr9xkh42001z3b6rv0i7888z@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It could be argued that the Americans can count themselves lucky to only be down by one goal at the break.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmr9xkzaj00203b6rodcqpt5n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Manager Mauricio Pochettino will need to get his team back to their confident best at the break.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium has a one-goal lead at the half and it\u2019s well deserved. The USA looks totally different than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747559,"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-747558","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\/747558","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=747558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}