🇺🇸 United States vs Belgium 🇧🇪 — Prediction
World Cup 2026 · Round of 16 · Tue, 07 Jul 2026, 02:00 CEST · Lumen Field, Seattle
Our AI call, published before kickoff
1–1
Tipped scorers: Pulišić (United States) · Tielemans (Belgium)
Missed ✗
Final result: 1–4 · Tipped scorers hit: 0/2
Goals: Charles De Ketelaere (Belgium, 9') · Malik Tillman (United States, 31') · Charles De Ketelaere (Belgium, 33') · Hans Vanaken (Belgium, 57') · Romelu Lukaku (Belgium, 90')
Why we called it
Essentially a coin-flip: the USA are slight favourites at home in Seattle (~-130 to advance), but that line is modest precisely because top scorer Balogun is suspended after his red card vs Bosnia, leaving Pepi as a different-profile centre-forward and Pulisic (back from a calf knock) as the talisman. Belgium topped their group but are defensively suspect and needed a 125th-minute Tielemans penalty to edge Senegal. With no clear favourite, I keep to the coin-flip call: 1-1 into extra time, Pulisic and Tielemans on the scoresheet.