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United States' Big Belgium Blunder

ESPN FC

ESPN

Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The FC Crew react to the United States' elimination from the World Cup as they lose to Belgium 4-1 and bow out of the tournament. They breakdown if the team achieved more or less than their expectations going into the World Cup, and ask what is next for the team and Pochettino. Then, analysis of Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal as they are eliminated in a loss to Spain, asking how we understand the later years of Cristiano Ronaldo's career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.2

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0:10.5

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0:21.6

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0:25.8

Welcome back to our ESPNFC studios here, live from New York.

0:30.4

Alexis Nunes here alongside Hercules Gomez and Germain Jones,

0:34.6

after what has been absolutely a heartbreaking night for Mauricio

0:38.1

Pocetino and the U.S. men's national team.

0:40.4

A very convincing win for Rudy Garcia's men in Seattle over the USA.

0:45.7

Let's bring in our Yergen Klinsman, who is joining us for this one to get immediate reaction.

0:50.3

Let's have a look at the match stats first because, as I said, if we looked at the odds

0:53.9

heading into this one, guys, we know that the USA were favorites in this one.

0:58.4

But it looked like, of course, Belgium were the ones who put quite a humbling on the USA in this one.

1:07.7

Juergen, let me come to you first and just your thoughts on what went wrong for the USA or

1:12.6

is it more what went right for Belgium?

1:15.6

Well, definitely, if you have a result like this and disappointment like this, then

1:22.6

there are a lot of things that went wrong.

1:26.6

But first and foremost, you've got to give Belgium a huge compliment, how they played this

1:31.9

game, how professional, how focused and how determined they were from the start on.

1:37.4

From the first second on, they dictated the tempo, they set the tone, they were ahead of

1:42.8

the curve, they won their one against one battles, without making too much fuss of it. It was really interesting to see how professionally they executed all their maneuvers and their game plan. They had a plan. And obviously, it helps then to go one-nil-up, even then it came the equalizer. But it seemed like even the equalizer didn't really bother them much.

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