{"id":5525,"date":"2026-06-25T19:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2026-06-25T19:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T19:54:49","slug":"usmnt-world-cup-lineup-vs-turkiye-balogun-jedi-adams-richards-wont-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=5525","title":{"rendered":"USMNT World Cup Lineup vs. T\u00fcrkiye: Balogun, Jedi, Adams, Richards Won&#039;t Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The U.S. men&#8217;s national team will sit out four regular starters \u2013 midfielder Tyler Adams, striker Folarin Balogun, defender Chris Richards, and fullback Antonee &#8220;Jedi&#8221; Robinson \u2013 in its World Cup group stage finale against T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>All four of those players have received a yellow card in the previous game and to not risk a second \u2013 and therefore an automatic suspension for the Round of 32 knockout match \u2013 USA manager Mauricio Pochettino will go with other players in his starting lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The other major question will be whether star forward Christian Pulisic will play in Thursday&#8217;s game at Los Angeles Stadium. Pulisic sat out the 2-0 win over Australia after having suffered a calf injury in the 4-0 victory over Paraguay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>The U.S., winner of Group D, is aiming to finish with a perfect record in the group stage. After Thursday&#8217;s match, it will play next in the round of 32 on July 1 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The projected opponent for that game is Bosnia and Herzegovina, who finished in third place in Group A. That has yet to be officially confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY The U.S. men&#8217;s national team will sit out four regular starters \u2013 midfielder Tyler Adams, striker Folarin Balogun, defender Chris Richards, and fullback Antonee &#8220;Jedi&#8221; Robinson \u2013 in its World Cup group stage finale against T\u00fcrkiye. All four of those players have received a yellow card in the previous game and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}