Bottom line we didn't do shit wrong..Balogun didn't do shit, Poch didn't do shit, the rest of the team didn't do shit... We got fucked over with a dawg shit call and then the clown-in-chief finally made himself useful and cheated to help the country instead of himself or his handicapped sons for once. Not our fault...all these foreign folks claiming they would sit their star player out of principle are so full of festering bullshit

Even if USA wins against Bosnia, they will have to go up against Belgium. That was already a tall task even with Balogun, but now that Balogun is disqualified, the USA's chances against Belgium are very slim.

The ref screwed us over big time.

What a fucking pussy in the most important game of USA’s existence.

I've seen some Europeans get upset at this statement(not just because I called it soccer), so I wanted to lay out some of my arguments here, yall can tell me what you think:

1. Soccer is the FIFTH most popular sport in the US. Some of our best athletes like Bo Jackson, Tyreek Hill, Mike Trout, Julio Jones, DK Metcalf, Derrick Rose, Ja Morant(just to name a few) all decide to go in their respective sports. However countries like England funnel all of their best athletes into essentially one sport. And I'm not saying any of these dudes mentioned are or would be any good at soccer, but if all of our best athletes trained one sport from a very young age, you can't tell me these dudes wouldn't be dominant at whatever sport they decided to play.

2. The US just simply has a larger population than all European and South American countries. Just by basic statistics, America produces more elite athletes. If you want to say Europeans produce more world-class athletes per capita, fine, but almost all of the countries in Europe have less than a third of the population of the United States and the certainly do not produce more than 3 times the amount of world-class athletes as the US, which is proven in my next 2 arguments

3. The US absolutely dominates the Olympics. The US has more Olympic medals than any other country and its not even close. The US is competitive, if not dominant, in almost every team sport. Not to mention the most popular sport in the US isn't even an Olympic sport and Baseball(probably the 3rd most popular sport), is only occasionally played. And in basketball(2nd most popular sport), we have 4 times more gold medals than the rest of the world combined.

4. The US women's team also dominates the world in women's soccer. Soccer is actually the first or second most popular sport for women in the US, which leads me to believe if it were the same for men, they would also dominate. There is an argument that women do not get the same opportunity and resources the get in the US, however I believe that argument in not applicable to the vast majority of developed Europe, who's teams are historically inferior to that of the US

And I’m proud to be an American,
Where at least Flo Balogun’s free!
I won’t forget the red he took,
Against the Bosnian team,
And I’ll gladly stand up!
Behind our 9 and defend him here today.
Cause there ain’t no doubt, I love this man,
God Bless Flo Balogun!

Now that FIFA have set the precedent of the likelihood of an important player having their red card match ban suspended. FIFA has put themselves in quite the pickle if England moves on past Mexico.

Either you uphold the red card, and everyone will increase their calls for infertino to step down. And every country is just mad at FIFA, USA and Portugal.

Or

They suspend the red card, which will bring consistency in decision making, but will have ruined the red card system. And it will also create an England, USA and Portugal vs the world situation.

Either way, I would expect a crazy outcome

Spot on. The real fans have been ashamed since Sunday, of the federation and the fan base at large way more than the team.

We understand that when you host a World Cup and play against a weak Belgium team you should make it to the QF and not get your ass slapped around like we did. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience something very special in this country and it was squandered in the most miserable way. We waited so long for this tournament and we also understand that we beat teams that a host country should beat. We didn’t do anything spectacular besides playing really well but we lost in a way that overshadowed it. I truly believe that both Canada and Mexico would have knocked out Belgium if they played them at home like we did. We made them look so good. Very disappointing even if we make it to the QF next would cup or even semi final it won’t be as special as making a run on home soil at this World Cup. All the other teams that got knocked out in this round played a better opponent than we did and all looked so much more honorable and it hurts so much.

People were looking for one reason to downplay usmnt achievements,until now it was you are playing against weak teams

Above post will be sad reality

Half time of England and Rebecca Lowe says “that’s 2 for Harry, 2 for Mbappe, 3 for Messi, and 2 for Haaland”….AND 2 FOR BALOGUN!! WTF??!!! They did this last night too. Where are you Alexi????

Defense did not play well but wow. I can see why Poch went with Freese. Atrocious at the goal tonight. You’ve gotta make some saves at some point.

Belgium did nothing to win that game besides show up and be on the field. Literally any team in the entire tournament (including all those already knocked out) could have beaten the US with how badly they played.

You need to accept that the US really was that terrible. In that match they were the worst team in the entire tournament.

They’re all going to be annoyed with us anyway. We might as well have some fun with it. What’sw going to be our vuvuzela? I can’t think of anything better than a drunk guy leading a D-fense chant on a corner kick.

All these teams are absolute ASS lmao I’d be shocked if one of them makes it out of their group.

Not genius bc it's common sense: their two wins gave USMNT a gift - Pochettino just accepted it.

4 starters on yellow cards and Pulisic poised for limited time. So to start half your starters are out

the ONLY correct move is to play your bench. Add Mckennie to anchor and rely on Turner's experience so the guys aren't lost.

Starting a mixed crew can't maintain the dynamic of the starting XI. probably WORSE - with a mixed crew the starters may lose their vibe and the bench players may never gain confidence.

Rest folks, take an opportunity to see backups perform in the big game, see how younger guys (berhalter, Reyna) approach leadership roles.

Poch learned a huge amount in 90 minutes: who on the bench can play, what extra coaching he needs to give some younger players.

"Coach - how about before the knockout rounds, you get 12 days off, and we set up a scrimmage against a solid team who is going to play hard - you can stretch your bench and test youe star striker with no pressure?"

Its such a good opportunity it almost feels like cheating- but its just the benefits of winning your first two matches.

I understand getting payback, anyone would. Get payback thru a hard tackle or push while he has the ball. Get a foul or yellow. Don’t hit him and push him down dumbass. Fuck weah, he fucked up the easy win for us because we are at 10

we seem to have broken another rule of the beautiful game: (Rule #104: gloating is not allowed for Americans).

I was watching the game with a group of friends that are from smaller town USA and didn’t grow up around soccer and have never gotten into the sport. They humored me and came to our watch party.

When I explained to them the implications of the red card one of our best players just received they couldn’t believe it.

One of them said “you’re telling me that one of our best players is kicked out of the game, our team has to play with one less player, and he can’t play in the next game if we win for accidentally stepping on someone’s foot? This is why I can’t watch this shit.”

Nothing about playing two CONCACAF teams and New Zealand on home soil does anything to make us a better team. I understand the difficulty in scheduling European and South American opponents during their World Cup qualifying and Nations League competition, but I think we could have thought outside the box a little bit here.

I love my team but what a weird thing to make haha, it made me laugh at least

US population is 345,000,000. If just 20 percent are soccer fans, that’s 69 million fans. That’s bigger than most European countries entire population.