{"id":70276,"date":"2026-03-28T14:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/live-usmnt-v-belgium-lineups-analysis-and-updates-for-international-friendly\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:55:03","slug":"live-usmnt-v-belgium-lineups-analysis-and-updates-for-international-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/live-usmnt-v-belgium-lineups-analysis-and-updates-for-international-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Live \u2013 USMNT v Belgium \u2013 lineups, analysis and updates for international friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u26bd Updates from the friendly in Atlanta (3.30pm ET kickoff)<br \/>\u26bd Get in touch! <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:alexander.abnos@theguardian.com\"><strong>Email Alexander here<\/strong><\/a><strong> with your thoughts<br \/>\u26bd <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/26\/usmnt-friendlies-preview-belgium-portugal\"><strong>Three things to watch<\/strong><\/a><strong><br \/>\u26bd <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/28\/mauricio-pochettino-christian-pulisic-world-cup-pressure\"><strong>Pressure on Pulisic and Pochettino<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we have a bit of a kit clash situation happening here, with both teams wearing their lighter shade. One of those situations where you just have to watch the shorts.<\/p>\n<p>1min \u2013 the US kicks off, and to be honest, the most notable thing so far is how hard it is to tell the kits apart in person.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/mar\/28\/usmnt-belgium-live-lineups-analysis-friendly\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd Updates from the friendly in Atlanta (3.30pm ET kickoff)\u26bd Get in touch! Email Alexander here with your thoughts\u26bd Three things to watch\u26bd Pressure on Pulisic and Pochettino Yeah, we have a bit of a kit clash situation happening here, with both teams wearing their lighter shade. One of those situations where you just have &#8230; <a title=\"Live \u2013 USMNT v Belgium \u2013 lineups, analysis and updates for international friendly\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/live-usmnt-v-belgium-lineups-analysis-and-updates-for-international-friendly\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Live \u2013 USMNT v Belgium \u2013 lineups, analysis and updates for international friendly\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}