{"id":70556,"date":"2026-03-31T21:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/usmnt-fall-2-0-to-portugal-in-final-game-before-world-cup-roster-is-named\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:57:41","slug":"usmnt-fall-2-0-to-portugal-in-final-game-before-world-cup-roster-is-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/usmnt-fall-2-0-to-portugal-in-final-game-before-world-cup-roster-is-named\/","title":{"rendered":"USMNT fall 2-0 to Portugal in final game before World Cup roster is named"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Christian Pulisic struggles in more attacking role<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Francisco Trinc\u00e3o opens scoring in first half<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>US play Germany, Senegal before World Cup opener<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US men\u2019s national team met Portugal at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Tuesday evening having spent the days leading up to the match preaching about intensity. Following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/28\/belgium-usmnt-friendly-match-report\">a 5-2 drubbing at the hands of Belgium<\/a> on the weekend, players and coaches alike stressed the importance of showing well against Portugal, sixth in Fifa\u2019s world rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the US closed this window with another flat performance, undone by a talented Portuguese side that easily unlocked the US in front of a sellout crowd of 72,297. The 2-0 loss was the USMNT\u2019s eighth consecutive defeat at the hands of a European opponent, a stretch that\u2019s seen them outscored 22-6.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/31\/usmnt-fall-2-0-to-portugal-in-final-game-before-world-cup-roster-is-named\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Pulisic struggles in more attacking role Francisco Trinc\u00e3o opens scoring in first half US play Germany, Senegal before World Cup opener The US men\u2019s national team met Portugal at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Tuesday evening having spent the days leading up to the match preaching about intensity. Following a 5-2 drubbing at the hands of &#8230; <a title=\"USMNT fall 2-0 to Portugal in final game before World Cup roster is named\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/usmnt-fall-2-0-to-portugal-in-final-game-before-world-cup-roster-is-named\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USMNT fall 2-0 to Portugal in final game before World Cup roster is named\">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-70556","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\/70556","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=70556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}