{"id":417981,"date":"2026-06-20T05:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=417981"},"modified":"2026-06-20T05:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:48:09","slug":"pulisic-out-injured-for-us-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/pulisic-out-injured-for-us-against-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulisic out injured for US against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SEATTLE, June 19 : United States winger Christian Pulisic will miss Friday&#8217;s Group D World Cup game against Australia due to&nbsp;injury, after training separately from his teammates this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Pulisic, who has 83 international caps, was withdrawn at halftime in the opening World Cup game against Paraguay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Ricardo Pepi, who came off the bench in the Paraguay game, replaces Pulisic as the only change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Socceroos coach Tony Popovic makes two changes from the side which upset Turkey 2-0 in the first match, with goalscorers Nestory Irankunda and Connor Metcalfe on the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* Australia&#8217;s 22-year-old goalkeeper Patrick Beach once again starts in place of Mat Ryan; defender Harry Souttar takes the captain&#8217;s armband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lineups:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">United States: Matt Freese; Alex Freeman, Chris Richards, Tim Ream, Antonee Robinson; Tyler Adams, Malik Tillman; Sergino Dest, Weston McKennie, Ricardo Pepi; Folarin Balogun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia: Patrick Beach; Jacob Italiano, Alessandro Circati, Harry Souttar, Cameron Burgess, Jordan Bos; Mathew Leckie, Aiden O&#8217;Neill, Paul Okon-Engstler, Nishan Velupillay; Mohamed Toure<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE, June 19 : United States winger Christian Pulisic will miss Friday&#8217;s Group D World Cup game against Australia due to&nbsp;injury, after training separately from his teammates this week. * Pulisic, who has 83 international caps, was withdrawn at halftime in the opening World Cup game against Paraguay. * Ricardo Pepi, who came off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417982,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417981\/revisions\/417982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}