{"id":671416,"date":"2026-06-25T20:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T00:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=671416"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T00:53:23","slug":"united-states-vs-turkiye-team-news-and-confirmed-lineups-as-mauricio-pochettino-rotates-his-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/25\/united-states-vs-turkiye-team-news-and-confirmed-lineups-as-mauricio-pochettino-rotates-his-side\/","title":{"rendered":"United States vs Turkiye: Team News and Confirmed Lineups as Mauricio Pochettino Rotates His Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the United States vs Turkiye clash not meaning anything for the final group standings in group D of the World Cup, Mauricio Pochettino has opted for a rotated side, allowing his players on yellow cards to reset their records, and players with nagging injuries like Christian Pulisic<\/a> to prepare for the knockout phase clash against Bosnia.<\/p>\n

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United States vs Turkiye<\/h2>\n

Date: Thursday, June 25th, 2026
\nVenue: Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles
\nKick Off: 22:00 in USA East Coast Time
\nReferee: Mustapha Ghorbal
\nCurrent Odds: United States 1.91, Draw 4.10, Turkiye 3.50<\/p>\n

United States Team News<\/h3>\n

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It’s a heavily rotated stars and stripes lineup. Giovanni Reyna will get minutes as the #10, he’s joined in the forward positions by Brenden Aaronson, getting his first minutes of the World Cup, Timothy Weah is on the left, with Ricardo Pepi in the main striker role, replacing Flo Balogun.<\/p>\n

Sebastian Berhalter steps into the midfield role, and it’s an entirely new defence with Matt Turner in goal, Mark McKenzie and Miles Robinson getting their first minutes of the World Cup. Auston Trusty and Joe Scally were also brought into the XI.<\/p>\n

Turkiye Team News<\/h3>\n

Fenerbahce’s Oguz Aydin will start for Turkiye, with Baris Yilmaz in the striker role, still seeking a first goal at this World Cup. Hoffenheim’s Ozan Kabak will be the starter at CB, while the pairing of Arda Guler and Kenan Yildiz are still the engine of Turkiye. Similar to the USA, this is a heavily rotated lineup from previous versions of this squad we saw on matchday 1 and 2.<\/p>\n

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United States Confirmed Lineup (4-2-3-1)<\/h3>\n

GK: Matt Turner<\/p>\n

Defenders: Miles Robinson, Auston Trusty, Mark McKenzie, Joe Scally<\/p>\n

Midfield: Sebastian Berhalter, Weston McKennie, Brenden Aaronson, Giovanni Reyna<\/p>\n

Forwards: Ricardo Pepi, Timothy Weah<\/p>\n

Turkiye Confirmed Lineup (4-2-3-1)<\/h3>\n

GK: Ugurcan Cakir<\/p>\n

Defenders: Zeki Celik, Ozan Kabak, Abdulkerim Bardakci. Eren Elmali<\/p>\n

Midfield: Salih Ozcan, Orkun Kokcu, Oguz Aydin<\/p>\n

Forwards: Baris Alper Yilmaz, Arda Guler, Kenan Yildiz<\/p>\n

Main Photo Credit: Smartframe Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the United States vs Turkiye clash not meaning anything for the final group standings in group D of the World Cup, Mauricio Pochettino has opted for a rotated side, allowing his players on yellow cards to reset their records, and players with nagging injuries like Christian Pulisic to prepare for the knockout phase clash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1442,"featured_media":671418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":true,"sfio_embed_code":"<\/smartframe-embed>","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,161,1831,2204,2132],"tags":[798,5188,258,9004,2846,32814,32866,32460],"class_list":["post-671416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international-football","category-starting-line-up","category-usmnt","category-world-cup","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-gio-reyna","tag-mauricio-pochettino","tag-ricardo-pepi","tag-timothy-weah","tag-turkiye","tag-united-states","tag-us-mens-national-team"],"modified_by":"Steen Kirby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671419,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671416\/revisions\/671419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}