{"id":15356,"date":"2023-08-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=15356"},"modified":"2023-08-03T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:48:23","slug":"bracket-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=15356","title":{"rendered":"Bracket Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Team USA gets through Group Play, Advances to Round of 16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Ruben Rodriguez&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the 2023 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup continues on, Team USA continues to thrive on their quest for the first three-peat in FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup history. In the 2023 Tournament, the USA has been thriving in World Cup play, though it has not been smooth sailing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Group E opener, the USA faced off against Vietnam, and thanks to excellent playmaking, the USA knocked off Vietnam 3-0 thanks to a two goal performance by Sophia Smith, who led the USA\u2019s offense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The USA was then faced up against the Netherlands in their second Group Stage match and in a close knit battle. Lindsey Horan tied it up late in the match to make it a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The USA would then face off against Portugal and in a purely defensive Matchup drew 0\u20130.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In group play, the US summed up five points to advance into the knockout stages. In the round of 16, the US will face off against Sweden.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>USA will continue to aim for the three-peat as they will have to go through a well rounded Swedish squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team USA gets through Group Play, Advances to Round of 16 By Ruben Rodriguez&nbsp; As the 2023 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup continues on, Team USA continues to thrive on their quest for the first three-peat in FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup history. In the 2023 Tournament, the USA has been thriving in World Cup play, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[67,87],"class_list":["post-15356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15358,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15356\/revisions\/15358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}