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A home World Cup is supposed to build, week by week, towards a night the whole country remembers. For the United States it ended instead on a Monday in Seattle, 4-1 to Belgium, the gap between ambition and…

A straight red card carries an automatic one-match ban, and the player's team cannot appeal it. That has been one of the plainest lines in football's rulebook for decades. This week FIFA rubbed it out for…

The World Cup hosts had waited 24 years for a knockout win, and when it finally arrived it came with a plot twist worthy of the wait. This covers the USA's 2-0 victory over Bosnia-Herzegovina in the round of…

With five minutes of normal time left, Senegal led 2-0 and Belgium's World Cup was packing its bags. What followed was what the Associated Press called the biggest comeback of this World Cup so far. This…

A team already out beat a team already through, and the scoreline barely mattered to either. This covers Turkey's 3-2 win over the USA in Los Angeles, settled by a 98th-minute goal that meant little beyond…

Without their most recognisable player and in front of a raucous home crowd, the United States produced a performance that raised genuine questions about how far this team could go. Adrian Dane examines how…

The United States opened their home World Cup with a performance that answered plenty of questions and raised several more. This piece looks beyond the scoreline to examine what Pochettino's tactical approach,…