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Dutch squad warring the flu

The Americans look a Dutch squad that, similar respective different World Cup teams astatine this tournament, is battling the flu. The bug ran done the U.S. squad past week.

Netherlands manager Louis van Gaal gave his squad the time disconnected connected Thursday alternatively of moving a emblematic 11-on-11 match.

“I gave them a time of rest,” Van Gaal said Friday. “With this group, they pass that to me. I perceive to my players.”

He declined to elaborate connected however galore players are affected, but by abandoning the emblematic grooming docket Van Gaal created speculation that astatine slightest six players are ill.

“We are not going to elaborate connected that,” helium said. “But if it goes astir successful the group, it is worrying.”

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How to ticker Team USA vs. the Netherlands

The United States must-win lucifer against the Dutch, which is being played astatine Qatar's Khalifa International Stadium, starts astatine 9 a.m. EST.

It will beryllium shown connected Fox, successful Spanish on Telemundo and streamed connected Peacock.

The United States is trying to get to the quarterfinals for the archetypal clip since 2002, but the squad is winless successful its past 11 World Cup games against European teams, a streak that includes 5 losses and six draws. 

Antonee Robinson of United States controls the shot during United States Training Session up of their Round of Sixteen lucifer against Netherlands astatine connected Dec. 2, 2022 successful Doha, Qatar. Christopher Lee / Getty Images

What’s successful the ‘magic spray’ World Cup players use, and does it truly work?

Viewers of the World Cup are apt acquainted with the “magic spray” that sometimes gets whipped retired aft a subordinate tumbles to the ground, writhing successful symptom from a mid-game injury.

The aerosolized substance garners renewed intrigue each truthful often, erstwhile squad doctors douse players with it and past nonstop them backmost into action, seemingly healed. So, however does the spray work, and conscionable however magical is it?

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Warm but not brutal evening for play successful Qatar

It'll beryllium a summery consciousness successful Qatar for the United States' round-of-16 lucifer against the Netherlands.

The forecast is for 80 degrees astatine 6 p.m. section clip (10 a.m. EST) at Khalifa International Stadium successful Al Rayyan, erstwhile the Americans and Dutch kickoff. It'll beryllium a interaction cooler, 77 degrees, by 8 p.m. locally erstwhile past last 90-minute whistle apt blows.

The unfastened aerial stadiums successful Qatar person been been fitted with cooling systems, to chagrin of environmentalists.

The World Cup is typically played successful June and July erstwhile astir of the world's large shot leagues are connected between-season breaks. But erstwhile the tourney was awarded to Qatar, organizers agreed to move it to November and December to debar the oppressive godforsaken heat.

Christian Pulisic cleared to play against Netherlands aft crippled wounded

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U.S. guardant Christian Pulisic has been cleared to play successful the team’s round-of-16 crippled against the Netherlands, the U.S. Men’s Soccer Team announced Friday.

Pulisic, 24, sustained a pelvic contusion comparatively aboriginal successful Tuesday’s lucifer aft helium careened into Iran’s goalkeeper, Alireza Beiranvand, while scoring the game’s lone goal.

The USMNT had described Pulisic’s presumption aft the crippled arsenic day-to-day.

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U.S. looking for a uncommon World Cup quarterfinal quality

An American upset implicit the Netherlands would bring manager Gregg Berhalter's men to the quarterfinals and a stage seldom occupied successful U.S. shot history.

The U.S. men’s squad made the semifinals of the inaugural World Cup successful 1930, finishing third, down runner-up Argentina and big and champion Uruguay.

The closest the Americans person travel since that 1930 tally was successful 2002, erstwhile they made the quarterfinals of that tourney successful South Korea and Japan.

Qatar World Cup lays bare the immense biology outgo of tourney

Air conditioning successful immense open-air stadiums, hundreds of planetary flights, tons and tons of lights. 

More than a million people person traveled to Qatar for 1 of the planet’s biggest sporting events. But arsenic it hosts the shot World Cup, contention is besides descending connected the tiny Gulf kingdom.

Alongside concerns implicit quality rights, anti-LGBTQ laws and the treatment of migrant workers — issues that person dogged the tourney for years — critics accidental Qatar 2022 volition beryllium 1 of the astir environmentally damaging of modern times.

Ahead of the tournament, respective ecologically minded nonrecreational players signed an unfastened missive to FIFA early this month, urging soccer’s planetary organizing assemblage to ditch its contested assertion that the Qatar World Cup is c neutral and to reappraisal its plans for adjacent year’s Women’s World Cup hosted by Australia and New Zealand.

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