USA VS BELGIUM: The ultimate World cup Revenge Game!

[Maxwell 91]

It all comes to this. The USMNT is set to face their biggest nightmare in seattle-a red-hot Belgium squad that always seems to have our number.
Remember the heart break in 2014? How about that 5-2 beat down in the March friendly? Well, the stakes have never been higher. Tonight is about redemption with Folarin Balogun available to lead the line and Christian Pulistic pulling the strings, we finally have the firepower to take down a Belgian team boasting Kevin De Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku. But let's be real-stopping that Belgian attack is going to be a nightmare.
Can the US pull off the upset on home soil and secure a historic quarter final spot?
Or, will Belgium break our heart once again?
Let hear it in the comments!👇
1. Who wins and what's your exact score prediction?
2. Who will be the man of the match tonight?
3. Are you backing the USA or Belgium to go through?
Drop your thoughts below and let's get this debate going!

[DrBeer]

It all comes to this. The USMNT is set to face their biggest nightmare in seattle-a red-hot Belgium squad that always seems to have our number.
Remember the heart break in 2014? How about that 5-2 beat down in the March friendly? Well, the stakes have never been higher. Tonight is about redemption with Folarin Balogun available to lead the line and Christian Pulistic pulling the strings, we finally have the firepower to take down a Belgian team boasting Kevin De Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku. But let's be real-stopping that Belgian attack is going to be a nightmare.
Can the US pull off the upset on home soil and secure a historic quarter final spot?
Or, will Belgium break our heart once again?
Let hear it in the comments!👇
1. Who wins and what's your exact score prediction?
2. Who will be the man of the match tonight?
3. Are you backing the USA or Belgium to go through?
Drop your thoughts below and let's get this debate going!

Judging by recent events, we can assume that the match’s outcome will be determined not by the number of goals scored, but by what Trump tells the FIFA president! Or maybe, at his request, the Belgian team will simply be ejected from the field, for example, because the first letter of the country’s name is the same as Biden’s, and as we know, according to Trump’s theory, he’s to blame for all our troubles-after which the U.S. team will automatically be declared the winner!

[Makus]

I'm not a fan that of USA and I cannot really predict the scoreline for the game but one thing I know is that USA are going to win Belgium. First of all Belgium are not in the shape they once were and their opponents on the other are quite good. This is going to be an ultimate world cup revenge game indeed. The game would be tough though, even if USA ends up winning Belgium are still going to do everything within their capacity to make sure that USA would not be able to win the game, but like I said my prediction is USA to win the match.

[GeorgeJohn]

This FIFA World Cup tournament has reached to the extent that we cannot predict accurately of the country that will defeat each other, Belgium is a nice team and USA is nice team, whatever prediction we are making for the both teams should be under assumptions..because wining of this FIFA tournament is not by previous performance of a country, but by the current performance. So many countries we think that will remain for the tournament are all home, so theirs no guarantee that Belgium will win USA and their's no assurance too that USA will win Belgium...

[SamReomo]

so theirs no guarantee that Belgium will win USA and their's no assurance too that USA will win Belgium...

I think in this match Belgium might have slight edge over team USA and that's why I believe they might perform well and win this match of World cup against USA team. But, we all know that USA won't be an easy win for Belgium this time, they'll do their best to win the match against Belgium and thus it'll be a good match between those two country teams. I personally, think that Belgium's team might perform somewhat better and they might win the match, however we can't say anything about the wins/losses of this World cup because this World cup is highly unpredictable.

[Bright0515]

This is quite funny but after a lot of people thought USA would win easily they are currently having a tough time winning Belgium. Belgium are currently leading and the game is currently in the 60th minute. Belgium is leading by two goals already so I don't think it is possible for USA to make any changes in the match. It is quite disappointing because I expected USA to do better than this. This is the reason why it's important not to underestimate any team in football.

[Daniel91]

This is quite funny but after a lot of people thought USA would win easily they are currently having a tough time winning Belgium. Belgium are currently leading and the game is currently in the 60th minute. Belgium is leading by two goals already so I don't think it is possible for USA to make any changes in the match. It is quite disappointing because I expected USA to do better than this. This is the reason why it's important not to underestimate any team in football.

In the end, a complete turnaround and a big victory for Belgium.
Most commentators predicted a victory for the USA, and politicians and FIFA did everything they could to have their best player, Balogun, play for the USA, against all rules and morality, but that didn't help either.
I think that all this circus around Balogun didn't actually help the American team, that it was all too much psychological pressure on them and that they failed to properly prepare for this important match.
Belgium once again showed that they are a team with character and in the end they deserved to win.

[viljy]

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I think that all this circus around Balogun didn't actually help the American team, that it was all too much psychological pressure on them and that they failed to properly prepare for this important match.
Belgium once again showed that they are a team with character and in the end they deserved to win.

It's very likely that this is the case. On the other hand, I have a suspicion that this scandal involving Trump's interference was deliberately exaggerated. Why would Trump intervene and pressure sports officials? He doesn't do anything without a purpose. Of course, we will never know the full story. Regardless, the United States was eliminated from the championship.

[SportbetOne]

I think that all this circus around Balogun didn't actually help the American team, that it was all too much psychological pressure on them and that they failed to properly prepare for this important match.

I'm not sure the whole Balogun drama was the main issue. To me, Belgium just looked like the better team. The US had the home crowd behind them, but once Belgium took control in midfield they didn't really have an answer.
I was a bit surprised by how many people were backing the US before kickoff. Home advantage is nice, but it doesn't always make the difference. After Belgium made it 2-0, I never really felt like the US were getting back into the game.

[Tonimez]

I think that all this circus around Balogun didn't actually help the American team, that it was all too much psychological pressure on them and that they failed to properly prepare for this important match.

I'm not sure the whole Balogun drama was the main issue. To me, Belgium just looked like the better team. The US had the home crowd behind them, but once Belgium took control in midfield they didn't really have an answer.
I was a bit surprised by how many people were backing the US before kickoff. Home advantage is nice, but it doesn't always make the difference. After Belgium made it 2-0, I never really felt like the US were getting back into the game.

Belgium outplayed USA from the start of the game to the end and there's no way USA could have come back with the level of pressure they faced. Belgium played good football and they had the results. De Ketelaere was on top of his game. Belgium must have played their game like every other games so I won't ascribe the Balogun case to this. What I see is a better side winning the game and nothing more.

It is true that fans have a good role in encouraging teams to perform better during games but I still know that teams results to a large extent is a product of team preparedness and the ability of each player to convert every opportunity that comes into goal because according to Ronaldo, football is a game  of numbers and the numbers is what really matters. Belgium scores more goals per game, coming from behind to beat Senegal in a 3:2 win. So I'm not surprised at the results.

[Porfirii]

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Judging by recent events, we can assume that the match’s outcome will be determined not by the number of goals scored, but by what Trump tells the FIFA president!

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Unfortunately, that was also the first thing that came to my mind after reading the opening post. The ability of this guy to appear in topics of conversation so far from his field of competence is incredible.

But fortunately that wasn't the case, so Belgium will be the ones who will finally have to face the Spanish team in the quarterfinals, in a really promising match no one should miss.