{"id":25077,"date":"2026-06-20T04:44:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=25077"},"modified":"2026-06-20T04:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T00:44:55","slug":"fifa-world-cup-us-2-0-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/06\/20\/fifa-world-cup-us-2-0-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup: US 2-0 Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">The US secured a place in the FIFA World Cup 2026 Round of 32 with a game to spare after a comfortable victory over Australia. The result also guarantees the co-hosts a spot among the best third-placed teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s side recorded consecutive World Cup wins for the first time since the inaugural tournament in 1930, producing another energetic display despite the absence of injured captain Christian Pulisic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The US took the lead through an own goal by Cameron Burgess after Folarin Balogun burst into the penalty area and delivered a low cross. The hosts doubled their advantage just before half-time when Alex Freeman headed home after a deflected Sergi\u00f1o Dest effort dropped inside the six-yard box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Balogun came close to adding a third goal, but Alessandro Circati made a crucial block. Australia struggled to threaten throughout, while the US held firm to record their first clean sheet in 10 matches and seal progression to the knockout stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US secured a place in the FIFA World Cup 2026 Round of 32 with a game to spare after a comfortable victory over Australia. The result also guarantees the co-hosts a spot among the best third-placed teams. Mauricio Pochettino\u2019s side recorded consecutive World Cup wins for the first time since the inaugural tournament in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25081,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25077\/revisions\/25081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}