We look ahead to this Group D match with our Türkiye vs USA prediction and preview. Having already topped their group with two wins from two, can the 2026 World Cup co-hosts continue their 100% record in Los Angeles?
Türkiye vs USA: The Key Insights
The Opta supercomputer expects the USA to finish their Group D campaign on the front foot, with Mauricio Pochettino’s side winning 47.7% of the pre-match simulations. USA have won back-to-back World Cup matches for the first time since the very first pair of games they played in the competition (against Belgium and Paraguay) in 1930. They have never won three in a row at the tournament. Türkiye have two losses from two at this World Cup, yet have never lost three games in a row in the competition. They were also kept goalless by both Australia and Paraguay, having only failed to score in one of their previous 10 World Cup matches.Expectations are high for Mauricio Pochettino’s USA side as they prepare for their final group-stage match at the 2026 World Cup, with the co-hosts already confirmed as Group D winners ahead of entering the last 32.
Conversely, the USA face a Türkiye side sat rock-bottom of Group D with no chance of reaching the knockouts, having lost both of their opening matches to Australia and Paraguay by 2–0 and 1–0 scorelines respectively.
Vincenzo Montella’s side conceded midway through each half in their defeat to the Socceroos, but were behind almost right from the start last time out against Paraguay.
Matías Galarza’s winner for Paraguay – coming after just one minute and four seconds – was not only the quickest goal of this World Cup, but the fastest in any tournament since Mathias Jørgensen scored inside 55 seconds for Denmark against Croatia in 2018.
Türkiye’s efforts to get back into the match were aided by Miguel Almirón’s red card on the stroke of half-time, but the equaliser they chased never arrived, despite attempting 32 shots in total.
That’s the joint-highest number of shots produced by one team in a single match at this World Cup, and Türkiye have now failed to score from their last 66 combined attempts (62 in 2026, four in 2002), the second-longest such run in tournament history (after Algeria).
Arda Güler and captain Giovanni Reyna rocket put Paraguay to the sword, Australia’s Cameron Burgess steered Balogun’s cross into his own net early on, and Alex Freeman doubled the hosts’ advantage just before half-time.
Freeman is the only USA player with both a goal and an assist at this World Cup, becoming their first defender to score at the tournament since John Brooks against Ghana in 2014.
That initially-disallowed header put the US in command of both the match and Group D, sealing their path to a round-of-32 clash against Algeria, Austria or one of the other third-placed teams in Group B, E, F or I.
Against Australia, USA displayed the quality and nerve required for progressing deep into this tournament. If the likes of Balogun and a fit-again
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