{"id":75767,"date":"2026-07-05T11:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/usa-v-belgium-tactical-analysis-how-does-pochettino-replace-folarin-baloguns-goal-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:56:16","slug":"usa-v-belgium-tactical-analysis-how-does-pochettino-replace-folarin-baloguns-goal-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/usa-v-belgium-tactical-analysis-how-does-pochettino-replace-folarin-baloguns-goal-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"USA v Belgium tactical analysis: how does Pochettino replace Folarin Balogun\u2019s goal threat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US and Belgium meet on Monday for a place in the World Cup quarter-finals. Here\u2019s what to expect from both teams <\/p>\n<p>While comparisons to the two most recent clashes between these teams are inevitable, neither of those matches is a terribly useful parallel. Belgium, remarkably, carry four holdovers from their 2-1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2014\/jul\/01\/belgium-usa-world-cup-2014-last-16-match-report\">victory over the US<\/a> at the 2014 World Cup; the Americans have none.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jul\/05\/usa-belgium-world-cup-folarin-balogun-replacement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US and Belgium meet on Monday for a place in the World Cup quarter-finals. Here\u2019s what to expect from both teams While comparisons to the two most recent clashes between these teams are inevitable, neither of those matches is a terribly useful parallel. Belgium, remarkably, carry four holdovers from their 2-1 victory over the &#8230; <a title=\"USA v Belgium tactical analysis: how does Pochettino replace Folarin Balogun\u2019s goal threat?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/usa-v-belgium-tactical-analysis-how-does-pochettino-replace-folarin-baloguns-goal-threat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USA v Belgium tactical analysis: how does Pochettino replace Folarin Balogun\u2019s goal threat?\">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-75767","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\/75767","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=75767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}