USA Advances to World Cup Knockout Stage After Narrow Loss to Germany

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They watched from office desks, early-morning sports bars, from military bases and living rooms. American soccer fans — the hardcore and bandwagon-riding alike, all worthy in equal measure — gathering far and wide for the USMNT's most anticipated matchup in recent memory: USA vs. fearsome Germany, in both teams' final Group G matchup, a win or a draw guaranteeing the Americans' a spot in the World Cup knockout round

Ninety minutes after kickoff in rain-soaked Recife, Brazil, those American dreams of advancing came true despite a loss to the Germans. Final score: 1-0, Germany. But a Portugal win over Ghana in Group G's other finale tied the U.S. and Portugal in the group table on four points apiece, gave the USMNT a tie-breaker on goal differential (three to one) and put the Americans through Read more...

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