{"id":70523,"date":"2026-03-31T16:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/usmnt-v-portugal-live-updates-and-analysis-from-international-friendly\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:05:28","slug":"usmnt-v-portugal-live-updates-and-analysis-from-international-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/usmnt-v-portugal-live-updates-and-analysis-from-international-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"USMNT v Portugal live \u2013 Updates and analysis from international friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f US kick off v Portugal at 7pm ET in Atlanta, Georgia<br \/>\u26bd\ufe0f Final friendly before 2026 World Cup roster is named<br \/>\u26bd\ufe0f Questions? Thoughts? <a href=\"mailto:alexander.abnos@theguardian.com\">Email Alexander here<\/a><br \/>\u26bd\ufe0f Last time out: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/28\/belgium-usmnt-friendly-match-report\">US 2-5 Belgium<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/29\/after-12-years-a-usmnt-loss-to-belgium-still-carries-a-world-cup-weight\">Another lowlands debacle<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Full-time has been called on the Turkey v Kosovo playoff game in Kosovo, with Turkey winning 1-0. That places them as the final team in the United States\u2019 World Cup group \u2013 the US will play Turkey on 25 June.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the United States will have played all three of their World Cup group opponents in friendlies in 2025. Is that a good or a bad thing?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/mar\/31\/usmnt-portugal-live-updates-analysis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f US kick off v Portugal at 7pm ET in Atlanta, Georgia\u26bd\ufe0f Final friendly before 2026 World Cup roster is named\u26bd\ufe0f Questions? Thoughts? Email Alexander here\u26bd\ufe0f Last time out: US 2-5 Belgium | Another lowlands debacle Full-time has been called on the Turkey v Kosovo playoff game in Kosovo, with Turkey winning 1-0. That places &#8230; <a title=\"USMNT v Portugal live \u2013 Updates and analysis from international friendly\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/usmnt-v-portugal-live-updates-and-analysis-from-international-friendly\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USMNT v Portugal live \u2013 Updates and analysis from 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-70523","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\/70523","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=70523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}