Lorraine Reriani

[Arsenal News @ArsenalNews_Hub]

🚨 Leandro Trossard on whether he keeps in touch with his Arsenal teammates during the World Cup.

“Yes, of course. After our game against the USA, I had a FaceTime call with William Saliba, David Raya and Bukayo Saka.

It was a really calm and enjoyable conversation. They congratulated me on reaching the quarter-finals and on getting the assist.

We always check on each other. Even though we’re representing different countries, we’re still Arsenal teammates and we have a great relationship.

Everyone wants to win the World Cup, but we also want to see each other do well. That’s the bond we’ve built at Arsenal.” ❤️🤍

🔴⚪️ #Arsenal #LeandroTrossard #WorldCup #AFC #COYG

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Støre shook hands ahead of the FIFA World Cup quarterfinal clash between England and Norway on Saturday.

Starmer told Støre 'the time is ours' during their exchange at the NATO summit in Ankara.

🔗https://t.co/sAHTlCNXZU

[Polymarket FC @PolymarketFC]

🚨 Arsenal are the Premier League Club with the MOST goal involvements in the 2026 World Cup. 🔴⚪️

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

Arsenal (20) are the Premier League club with the most goal involvements at the World Cup so far ⚽️

[Lorraine Reriani @RerianiLW]

@ahoworth97 He's been brilliant today

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois said Belgium ‘were disrespected’ following their 4-1 win against the USMNT in the World Cup Round of 16 🎙️

"In recent days, we have been disrespected here in the United States. It was being said that they could beat us easily, but I think today we showed that we are a good team. We played a great match.”

“We wanted to pin the United States back from the start and tried to create chances. Then they started to doubt themselves. Perhaps the 2-5 defeat against us in the friendly was affecting them.”

"I read about [the Folarin Balogun red card] and it amused me. I understand that they want to generate excitement around the United States, but today I had more confidence in our victory than against Senegal, which has a better team than the United States.”

[Premier League India @PLforIndia]

Gunners shining on the world stage 😎✨

@Arsenal

[Belgium Touch 🇧🇪 @BelgiumTouch]

Ils ont réitéré dans le vestiaire 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Dougie Critchley @DougieCritchley]

People like to ridicule Romelu Lukaku... and to be honest I've never really got it.

Yes, he's not as cold a finisher of straightforward chances as the very few world class strikers around...

But 93 international goals, 8 more than Harry Kane... that's insanely good.

Scoring the final goal in a last 16 clash, his 3rd in 3 games after an injury-ridden season, during which he also lost his father...

Well played man.

[Arsenal Chizzy @ArsenalChizzy_]

🚨 Luis de la Fuente on his match-winning substitution:

Reporter 🗣️ "What inspired you to make that substitution that changed the game?"

De la Fuente 🗣️ "Sometimes, in football, you have to trust your instincts. Mikel Merino has always been a clutch player for Arsenal, so I knew he could deliver in a big moment.

Players like him don't need many chances, they just need the right moment." 🇪🇸

[Lorraine Reriani @RerianiLW]

@Mosesbadass_ @EricNjiiru @SirStephenLutta I was actually impressed by Iran despite being eliminated in the group stage. I thought they played well but were just unlucky.

[Lorraine Reriani @RerianiLW]

@ElizabethV916 @EdKrassen The red card was not overturned. It's his one match ban that was suspended. In fact, FIFA fined Balogun $40K for the red card

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

America won the red card fight and lost 4-1 at home.

Lukaku's Trump dance said the rest.

The U.S. is now out of its own World Cup.

Was the circus worth it?

[Ceo Da Acarajé @AcarajeCeo]

Lukaku é sujeito homem pra caralho.

Fez o Quarto Gol da goleada em cima dos Estados Unidos, na casa dos caras.

E a comemoração foi como?

imitando a dancinha do verme do Trump, que interviu na copa pra favorecer os Estados Unidos.

Foda Kkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[Juez Central @Juezcentral]

Qué momento en el Bélgica-Estados Unidos. El gran Romelu Lukaku anota el 4-1, sentenciando la clasificación belga y eliminación del anfitrión.

Al celebrar, le dice al público local que no los escucha. Luego, tira el bailecito de Donald Trump con sus compañeros. Hoy hubo justicia.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

The best US men's team ever loses to Belgium. If they'd advanced, there would have been an asterisk next to their victory because of Donald's interference.
He casts a shadow over everything. He can only win if he cheats, and he thinks that applies to everybody else. Sad.

[James Ducker @TelegraphDucker]

The irony is that, for months, Mauricio Pochettino had been making every effort to ensure politics did not become a distraction for his United States side at this World Cup.

Then the US President Donald Trump sticks his oar in and the co-hosts go from being a picture of concentration to a lost rabble. 

We may never quite know the extent to which the noise, chaos and controversy surrounding the suspension of Folarin Balogun’s red card affected the #USMNT players’ state of mind in those 36 hours before they took to the field against #Belgium.

But, watching the US disintegrate over the course of an agonising 90 plus minutes at Lumen Field in Seattle, it felt like Trump had achieved the opposite of what he probably set out to do: Pochettino’s carefully orchestrated approach to keep politics out of the football torpedoed amid a grotesque orgy of political narcissism and grandstanding.

Full report from Seattle

⬇️

https://t.co/J6fOZ2rPMq

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

🗣️ Mauricio Pochettino on whether the Flo Balogun saga was a distraction: "I think today we just didn't show our real quality as a team. I want to congratulate Belgium because they were good. But I think we were not at our level.

"We started in a poor way. We never found the flow of the game. Even after a we scored, in the next action we conceded a goal. It was a very bad day. We didn't show the quality from previous games.

"We have to accept we weren't good. We don't need to find excuses.

"FIFA and all the different people involved explained, and those are the rules. It was a clear explanation, so I have no comment on that [President Trump admitting today he called Gianni Infantino to review Balogun's red].

"Belgium was the better team."

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Belgium manager Rudi Garcia subbed off Doku and De Bruyne vs. Senegal when they were down 0-2 in the RO32 and came back to win 3-2.

Garcia doubled downed in the RO16 and started with Doku and De Bruyne on the bench vs. the USMNT and won 4-1, playing the best football we’ve seen from Belgium in some time.

What a bold decision that paid off 👏

[Lorraine Reriani @RerianiLW]

@Ruxiiii4 This is what happens when you mix politics with Sports. It only has negative consequences