{"id":75743,"date":"2026-07-04T20:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/belgium-players-say-they-will-need-balls-to-nullify-home-crowd-against-us\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T20:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:51:27","slug":"belgium-players-say-they-will-need-balls-to-nullify-home-crowd-against-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/belgium-players-say-they-will-need-balls-to-nullify-home-crowd-against-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium players say they will need \u2018balls\u2019 to nullify home crowd against US"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Belgium play Americans in the last-16 on Monday<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>US have enjoyed strong support at home at the World Cup<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A raucous, pro-US crowd is expected in Seattle for the Americans\u2019 last-16 match against Belgium on Monday, but the Red Devils say that they don\u2019t fear the atmosphere that will await them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we just have to \u2026 show balls on the pitch,\u201d left-back Maxim De Cuyper said on Friday. \u201cTry to play your own game. If you play against 80,000 supporters or with 80,000, you have to try to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/04\/belgium-united-states-world-cup-environment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium play Americans in the last-16 on Monday US have enjoyed strong support at home at the World Cup A raucous, pro-US crowd is expected in Seattle for the Americans\u2019 last-16 match against Belgium on Monday, but the Red Devils say that they don\u2019t fear the atmosphere that will await them. \u201cI think we just &#8230; <a title=\"Belgium players say they will need \u2018balls\u2019 to nullify home crowd against US\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/belgium-players-say-they-will-need-balls-to-nullify-home-crowd-against-us\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Belgium players say they will need \u2018balls\u2019 to nullify home crowd against US\">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-75743","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\/75743","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=75743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}