{"id":216194,"date":"2026-07-07T07:44:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/is-usa-favored-over-belgium-in-world-cup-round-of-16-match-latest-odds-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T07:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T07:44:42","slug":"is-usa-favored-over-belgium-in-world-cup-round-of-16-match-latest-odds-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/is-usa-favored-over-belgium-in-world-cup-round-of-16-match-latest-odds-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Is USA favored over Belgium in World Cup round of 16 match? Latest odds – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

The USA’s chances of advancing to the quarterfinals of the 2026 World Cup<\/a> took a major jump with Sunday’s announcement that star striker Folarin Balogun would be able to play<\/a> Monday night against Belgium.
Balogun received a red card and a one-match suspension<\/a> in the Americans’ 2-0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/a>, but the decision was reversed<\/a> on July 5, when FIFA announced he would only face a one-year probationary period.
Belgium has been allowed to file an appeal<\/a>, but that’s already been denied<\/a>.
With Balogun in the projected starting lineup<\/a>, here are the latest odds for the USA’s match vs. Belgium, as well as its chances of going all the way.
According to\u00a0BetMGM<\/a>, the United States is slightly favored to beat Belgium<\/a> in their round of 16 match on Monday, July 6.
Odds to win in regulation<\/strong> (as of 2 p.m. ET)
Odds to win the 2026 World Cup, according to BetMGM (as of 9 a.m. on July 6):
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The USA’s chances of advancing to the quarterfinals of the 2026 World Cup took a major jump with Sunday’s announcement that star striker Folarin Balogun would be able to play Monday night against Belgium.Balogun received a red card and a one-match suspension in the Americans’ 2-0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the decision was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-216194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}