The United States begins its World Cup campaign with a 4-0 win over Paraguay

The American national team started its campaign in the 2026 World Cup strongly, defeating its Paraguayan counterpart with a score of four goals to one, in the match that brought them together at the Los Angeles Stadium in California, amid a loud celebratory atmosphere at the opening of the fourth group matches for the host and the audience.

The hosts entered the match with intense and organized attacking pressure from the first minutes, forcing Paraguay’s defense to make mistakes early amid clear confusion in the visitors’ back lines.

The first goal for the American team came early in the sixth minute with friendly fire, after Paraguayan defender Damian Bobadilla made a mistake in clearing the cross and accidentally put it into his team’s net under attacking pressure. In the thirtieth minute, the brilliant striker Folarin Balogun doubled the score by scoring the second goal after taking advantage of a special decisive pass from Christian Pulistic, who then went one-on-one with the goal and shot a powerful ball that landed in the net.

Moments before the end of the first half, specifically in the fifth minute of stoppage time, star Folarin Balogun returned to score his personal brace and the third goal for his country after wonderful manipulation of the defense and a perfect shot into the upper left corner, ending the first half with a comfortable American lead of three clean goals. In the second half, specifically in the seventy-second minute, substitute Mauricio succeeded in reducing the difference in favor of Paraguay by scoring the only goal for his country, while the American team settled the match with the fourth goal in stoppage time by Giovanni.