{"id":397,"date":"2026-06-26T09:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/?p=397"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:38:42","slug":"turkiye-sign-off-world-cup-with-late-3-2-victory-over-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/turkiye-sign-off-world-cup-with-late-3-2-victory-over-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye Sign Off World Cup with Late 3-2 Victory Over United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>T\u00fcrkiye bowled them out in an exciting match, defeating Group D leaders the United States 3-2 on Wednesday, in Los Angeles for FIFA World Cup 2026.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The outcome did not affect the fate of T\u00fcrkiye in the tournament, but the team had a performance that was one of their best.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The U.S. opened up strong and advanced in the first few minutes with a corner kick from Auston Trusty that found him up close and personal with the goal. The initial objective, though, did nothing to quell T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s response.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The visitors were soon back in the game after a few minutes when Arda G\u00fcler turned in a calm finish to come back into the game. Once again, the young midfielder proved himself as one of the brightest football talents of T\u00fcrkiye.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bar\u0131\u015f Y\u0131lmaz came back to the field after the break and scored an impressive well-constructed attack to give T\u00fcrkiye a much-needed 2-1 halftime lead.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the second half the Americans came back with renewed vigour and found the net again through the long range strike of Sebastian Berhalter who left the keeper with little hope.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The game was tied until the final moments as both teams looked for a winning score. The match was on the verge of a draw when Kaan Ayhan found the net in the dying moments for a memorable 3-2 win for T\u00fcrkiye.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The victory was not sufficient to maintain T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s presence in the World Cup, but the team left the tournament with a spirited performance, providing much encouragement for future international events.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The USUW lost their first game of the group stage, but still came out on top of Group D, and will now look to the knockout stages.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00fcrkiye bowled them out in an exciting match, defeating Group D leaders the United States 3-2 on Wednesday, in Los Angeles for FIFA World Cup 2026. The outcome did not affect the fate of T\u00fcrkiye in the tournament, but the team had a performance that was one of their best. The U.S. opened up strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fifa-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aitadal.com.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}