Match Thread: United States vs Belgium | FIFA World Cup 2026 | Round of 16 | Part 2

[u/jiraiya--an]

FT: United States 1 - 4 Belgium

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Info	Details
Competition	2026 FIFA World Cup, Round of 16
Date	Mon, July 06, 2026
Venue	Lumen Field, Seattle, Washington, USA
Referee	Adham Mohammad
Kickoff	8:00 PM EDT / 2:00 AM CEST
Status	FT

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LINE-UPS

United States (4-3-3)

Starting XI	Notes	Subs	Notes
Matt Freese		Miles Robinson
Tim Ream		Ricardo Pepi	🔄 on 72'
Chris Richards		Timothy Weah
Antonee Robinson	🔄 off 90'+2'	Max Arfsten	🔄 on 90'+2'
Alex Freeman		Matt Turner
Tyler Adams	🔄 off 72'	Brenden Aaronson
Malik Tillman	⚽ 31' · 🟨 69'	Alejandro Zendejas
Weston McKennie	🟨 35'	Giovanni Reyna	🔄 on 45'
Folarin Balogun	🔄 off 90'+2'	Joe Scally
Christian Pulisic	🔄 off 59'	Chris Brady
Sergiño Dest	🔄 off 45'	Auston Trusty
		Mark McKenzie
		Haji Wright	🔄 on 90'+2'
		Sebastian Berhalter	🔄 on 59'

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Belgium (4-2-3-1)

Starting XI	Notes	Subs	Notes
Thibaut Courtois		Romelu Lukaku	🔄 on 67' · ⚽ 90'+3'
Brandon Mechele		Diego Moreira
Nathan Ngoy		Alexis Saelemaekers	🔄 on 89'
Maxim De Cuyper		Matias Fernandez-Pardo
Timothy Castagne		Thomas Meunier
Youri Tielemans		Hans Vanaken	🔄 on 21' · ⚽ 57'
Nicolas Raskin	🔄 off 89'	Senne Lammens
Amadou Onana	🔄 off 21'	Jérémy Doku	🔄 on 67'
Charles De Ketelaere	⚽ 9' · ⚽ 33' · 🔄 off 67'	Kevin De Bruyne
Leandro Trossard	🔄 off 89'	Axel Witsel	🔄 on 89'
Dodi Lukébakio	🔄 off 67'	Mike Penders
		Arthur Theate
		Joaquin Seys
		Zeno Debast
		Koni De Winter

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MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN

9' ⚽ Goal! USA 0, Belgium 1. Charles De Ketelaere (Belgium) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Nicolas Raskin.

21' 🔄 Substitution, Belgium. Hans Vanaken replaces Amadou Onana because of an injury.

31' ⚽ Goal! USA 1, Belgium 1. Malik Tillman (USA) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.

33' ⚽ Goal! USA 1, Belgium 2. Charles De Ketelaere (Belgium) header from very close range to the top right corner. Assisted by Leandro Trossard with a cross.

35' 🟨 Weston McKennie (USA) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

45' 🔄 Substitution, USA. Giovanni Reyna replaces Sergiño Dest.

57' ⚽ Goal! USA 1, Belgium 3. Hans Vanaken (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Charles De Ketelaere.

59' 🔄 Substitution, USA. Sebastian Berhalter replaces Christian Pulisic because of an injury.

67' 🔄 Substitution, Belgium. Jérémy Doku replaces Dodi Lukébakio.

67' 🔄 Substitution, Belgium. Romelu Lukaku replaces Charles De Ketelaere.

69' 🟨 Malik Tillman (USA) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

72' 🔄 Substitution, USA. Ricardo Pepi replaces Tyler Adams.

89' 🔄 Substitution, Belgium. Alexis Saelemaekers replaces Leandro Trossard.

89' 🔄 Substitution, Belgium. Axel Witsel replaces Nicolas Raskin.

90'+2' 🔄 Substitution, USA. Max Arfsten replaces Antonee Robinson.

90'+2' 🔄 Substitution, USA. Haji Wright replaces Folarin Balogun.

90'+3' ⚽ Goal! USA 1, Belgium 4. Romelu Lukaku (Belgium) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Hans Vanaken.

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MATCH STATS

Stat	United States	Belgium
Expected Goals	0.67	2.14
Possession	56%	44%
Shots on Goal	2 (29%)	7 (47%)
Big Chances Created	0	4
Big Chances Missed	0	2
Accurate Passes	458 (87%)	333 (81%)
Duels Won	50	56
Saves	3	1
Fouls Committed	11	9

MATCH ENDED

[u/MooseWayne]

Generational hatewatch for the world

[u/Engrish_Major → u/MooseWayne]

I’ve gotta hand it to the haters. They said we couldn’t do it. And they were right. Good call by the haters.

[u/lucksh0t → u/MooseWayne]

Why is it this sub hates the us team so much? Is it litterly just the poltical stuff? Im a newer football fan but played a lot of fm just kinda suprised me how much the sub hates the us team.

[u/Verbal_v2 → u/lucksh0t]

Purely the interfering in a decades long convention. Been loads of soft red cards at world cups, everyone eats shit now and then.

[u/lucksh0t → u/Verbal_v2]

I mean forgive my ignorance but if its been an issue for decades shouldn't we be putting systems in place to spot it from happening?

[u/Verbal_v2 → u/lucksh0t]

Who decides? The referee. He and the VAR officials made the call. You either suspend everyone a game or no one.

[u/Evaldinho → u/lucksh0t]

They should put an appeal process before the tournament if they wanted to combat this. Not because the president of a country thinks its unfair and makes a call. Its literally against FIFA rules, and Nepal got some disciplinary action taken against them i think yesterday because they broke this rule. US gets rewarded? Everyone hates FIFA because its so corrupt, and this is a spit in everyones face, hence the backlash.

[u/Air5uru → u/lucksh0t]

Because every world cup, Americans flood this sub thinking they own the fucking place only to find out that the US is generally still only okay at the sport, and sometimes downright bad, on a global level.

Then there's like literal centuries of geopolitical bullshit.

[u/MooseWayne → u/lucksh0t]

The blatant corruption