The 200% World Cup: The USA vs Belgium – Live!
I'm struggling to think of a harder working team than the USA in this tournament, sports fans. They may not be the most technically accomplished team playing this summer, but they certainly put in a full ninety minutes in every match that they play, and I even suspect that there's a chance that they might edge past Belgium this evening. Food for thought time – there hadn't, prior to the start of this tournament, been a quarter-finalist from the CONCACAF region since the USA were beaten at that stage by Germany in 2025. This year, if the USA win, there will be two. Perhaps the New World's time at the top table is coming sooner than we'd predicted.
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The pitch invader was wering a "Save The Favelas" t-shirt, so a little free publicity for him, there. Would you want to "save" favelas, though? I'd have thought you'd have wanted to get rid of debilitating economic inequality, myself.
A chance at both ends, sports fans. At one end of the pitch, Clint Dempsey has a shot comfortably saved, but then Belgium break and Kevin de Bruyne gets clear, only to drag his shot wide of the goal. This has been a terrific opening.
Well, that was all very odd. A man just ran onto the pitch and ran around for a good minute while nothing happened. I thought he might have been a ghost – the ghost of Joseph Gaetjens, perhaps – but then he was finally awoken by security guards who were presumably risen from quite a deep slumber to get to him. And they arrested him. So presumably he wasn't a ghost after all. I don't think you can arrest ghosts.
Pretty slow start, all told. The USA look better organised than they did in their last match so far. As for Belgium, well, they are little too clinical for my taste. There's something about them which is all a little too well-organised, a little too clean. Think it's going to be a tight one this evening.
Good evening sports fans. By way of introduction, I fancy the USA to win this one. I haven't been de-socked by Belgium yet, and if the American team does anything, it works its goddam socks off.
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