{"id":75566,"date":"2026-06-30T16:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/after-last-32-upsets-us-approach-is-simple-were-not-going-to-go-crazy\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:03:13","slug":"after-last-32-upsets-us-approach-is-simple-were-not-going-to-go-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/after-last-32-upsets-us-approach-is-simple-were-not-going-to-go-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"After last-32 upsets, US approach is simple: \u2018We\u2019re not going to go crazy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>US plays Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday evening<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Edin D\u017eeko poses a challenge for US center backs<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Few knew what to expect from the newly hatched last 32 when Fifa expanded the field for the 2026 World Cup. After Monday, we\u2019ve gotten an answer: it resembles international knockout soccer as we\u2019ve known it to be. Favorites (such as Germany and the Netherlands) can\u2019t rest on their laurels. Complacent play can, and often is, punished.<\/p>\n<p>The outside expectation is that the US enter Wednesday\u2019s last-32 clash with Bosnia and Herzegovina as favorites, especially so given they will have a considerable home-field advantage at San Francisco Bay Area Stadium.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/30\/usmnt-bosnia-herzegovina-world-cup-round-of-32-preview\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US plays Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday evening Edin D\u017eeko poses a challenge for US center backs Few knew what to expect from the newly hatched last 32 when Fifa expanded the field for the 2026 World Cup. After Monday, we\u2019ve gotten an answer: it resembles international knockout soccer as we\u2019ve known it to be. &#8230; <a title=\"After last-32 upsets, US approach is simple: \u2018We\u2019re not going to go crazy\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/after-last-32-upsets-us-approach-is-simple-were-not-going-to-go-crazy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about After last-32 upsets, US approach is simple: \u2018We\u2019re not going to go crazy\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-75566","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\/75566","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=75566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}