{"id":22668,"date":"2026-07-07T16:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22668"},"modified":"2026-07-07T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:01:12","slug":"belgium-knock-usa-out-of-fifa-world-cup-with-4-1-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22668","title":{"rendered":"Belgium Knock USA Out of FIFA World Cup With 4-1 Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Belgium knocked hosts USA out of the 2026 FIFA World Cup after securing a dominant 4-1 victory in the Round of 16.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match was played in front of a packed stadium in Seattle, with the United States entering the game with high confidence and Balogun returning to the team after his red-card suspension was lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium responded strongly on the field after their appeal over the Balogun suspension issue was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Charles De Ketelaere scored twice for Belgium, while Hans Vanaken added the third goal in the 57th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Romelu Lukaku scored Belgium&#8217;s fourth goal in injury time to complete a convincing victory.<\/p>\n<p>Balogun featured for the United States following the removal of his suspension, while Tillman scored the hosts&#8217; only goal.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, Belgium qualified for the quarter-finals, where they will face Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium knocked hosts USA out of the 2026 FIFA World Cup after securing a dominant 4-1 victory in the Round of 16. The match was played in front of a packed stadium in Seattle, with the United States entering the game with high confidence and Balogun returning to the team after his red-card suspension was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,38],"tags":[12908,10503,12903,12905,8945,12902,12906,12824,12907,12648,3676,12909,11936,12904],"class_list":["post-22668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-sports","tag-balogun","tag-belgium","tag-belgium-football-team","tag-charles-de-ketelaere","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-football-world-cup","tag-hans-vanaken","tag-quarter-finals","tag-romelu-lukaku","tag-round-of-16","tag-spain","tag-tillman","tag-usa","tag-usa-football-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22670,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22668\/revisions\/22670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}