{"id":74848,"date":"2026-06-14T06:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/englands-loss-is-usas-gain-as-pochettino-find-a-spearhead-in-folarin-balogun\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T06:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:03:30","slug":"englands-loss-is-usas-gain-as-pochettino-find-a-spearhead-in-folarin-balogun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/englands-loss-is-usas-gain-as-pochettino-find-a-spearhead-in-folarin-balogun\/","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s loss is USA\u2019s gain as Pochettino find a spearhead in Folarin Balogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Against Paraguay, the Monaco striker provided the ruthless finishing the USMNT have often missed in recent years<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2023\/jul\/20\/sign-up-for-soccer-with-jonathan-wilson-his-free-weekly-newsletter-on-european-soccer\">World Cup newsletter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/series\/footballweekly\">Daily podcast<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1o65wsyj\">Download the app<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even after they conceded an early goal on Friday, Paraguay kept affording the United States ample room up the channel. As the ball reached Malik Tillman and Weston McKennie in midfield, their disoriented opponents never quite seemed to know how to station themselves to stem the tide. The US\u2019s off-ball movement further complicated those efforts, dizzying Paraguay\u2019s defense before it could establish an ideal structure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just tried to run in behind,\u201d McKennie said after the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/12\/usa-paraguay-world-cup-2026-group-d-match-report\">had completed their 4-1 victory<\/a>. \u201cI think I realized early on that they were struggling to follow my deep runs. If it\u2019s not broken, don\u2019t fix it. I keep trying to do it until they figure something out. I was able to find more space than usual, and it was fun. I really enjoyed to get on the ball as much as I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/14\/folarin-balogun-usmnt-paraguay-world-cup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against Paraguay, the Monaco striker provided the ruthless finishing the USMNT have often missed in recent years World Cup newsletter | Daily podcast | Download the app Even after they conceded an early goal on Friday, Paraguay kept affording the United States ample room up the channel. As the ball reached Malik Tillman and Weston &#8230; <a title=\"England\u2019s loss is USA\u2019s gain as Pochettino find a spearhead in Folarin Balogun\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/englands-loss-is-usas-gain-as-pochettino-find-a-spearhead-in-folarin-balogun\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about England\u2019s loss is USA\u2019s gain as Pochettino find a spearhead in Folarin Balogun\">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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74848","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=74848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}