{"id":75373,"date":"2026-06-26T02:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/pochettino-chides-press-for-questions-after-3-2-loss-to-turkey-we-won-the-group\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T02:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:55:10","slug":"pochettino-chides-press-for-questions-after-3-2-loss-to-turkey-we-won-the-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/pochettino-chides-press-for-questions-after-3-2-loss-to-turkey-we-won-the-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Pochettino chides press for questions after 3-2 loss to Turkey: \u2018We won the group\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>US manager says his team deserve congratulations<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Plays down talk of momentum and focuses on positives<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mauricio Pochettino criticized questions over his team\u2019s performance in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/26\/turkey-usa-world-cup-2026-match-report\">3-2 loss to Turkey<\/a> on Thursday, telling journalists he expected to be congratulated for leading the US to a first-place finish in the group and found their questions about the dead-rubber loss \u201cweird\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The US had secured top spot in Group D on the back of two historic performances \u2013 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/12\/usa-paraguay-world-cup-2026-group-d-match-report\">4-1 opening win against Paraguay<\/a> in which the team scored more goals in a World Cup match than ever before, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/19\/usa-australia-world-cup-2026-group-d-match-report\">2-0 victory over Australia<\/a> that secured a first six-point opening to a World Cup.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/26\/mauricio-pochettino-chides-press-us-lose-turkey-we-won-the-group\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US manager says his team deserve congratulations Plays down talk of momentum and focuses on positives Mauricio Pochettino criticized questions over his team\u2019s performance in a 3-2 loss to Turkey on Thursday, telling journalists he expected to be congratulated for leading the US to a first-place finish in the group and found their questions about &#8230; <a title=\"Pochettino chides press for questions after 3-2 loss to Turkey: \u2018We won the group\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/pochettino-chides-press-for-questions-after-3-2-loss-to-turkey-we-won-the-group\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pochettino chides press for questions after 3-2 loss to Turkey: \u2018We won the group\u2019\">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-75373","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\/75373","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=75373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}