‘It had no impact’: USMNT insist Balogun political circus did not affect World Cup exit
The US had big problems in their last-16 defeat, but Mauricio Pochettino and his team said that the discourse around the red-card ban reversal wasn’t one of them newsbetting.bond
For a while, it seemed the only story in the lead-up to the US men’s national team last-16 matchup against Belgium was the presence of Folarin Balogun. In the end, Balogun’s presence didn’t really matter at all. Not on the field, at least.
The forward was serviceable in the USMNT’s 4-1 loss and even earned the foul that led to the Americans’ lone goal, a deflected free-kick off the foot of midfielder Malik Tillman. He was far from the dynamo he’d been in the US’s other World Cup matches. But Balogun alone would never have saved a US team who were comprehensively dismantled by a technical Belgian side.
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