{"id":3925,"date":"2017-05-29T10:27:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T01:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2017-05-30T16:27:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T07:27:32","slug":"u20-world-cup-saudi-arabia-go-usa-top-group-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/05\/29\/u20-world-cup-saudi-arabia-go-usa-top-group-f\/","title":{"rendered":"U20 World Cup: Saudi Arabia go through while USA top Group F"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the final group stage match of the 2017 U-20 World Cup Group F, Saudi Arabia drew 1-1 against the United States to clinch a knock-out spot.<\/p>\n

Brooks Lennon opened the score in the 40th minute after firing in from close range, but the Stars and Stripes were reduced to 10 men after\u00a0Cameron Carter-Vickers received his second yellow card.<\/p>\n

Abdulelah Alamri was the hero for Saudi Arabia as he rose the highest to head home a corner in the 74th minute.<\/p>\n

The result saw the West Asian side finished as one of the best third-placed team and advance to the Round of 16. Meanwhile, the United States won Group F with 1 win and 2 draws.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia U-20 will face Uruguay U-20 on Wednesday, 31 May while United States U-20 will clash against New Zealand U-20 on Thursday, 1 June.<\/p>\n

The following photos were taken at the\u00a0Daejeon World Cup Stadium in Daejeon by Football Tribe Asia<\/em>‘s\u00a0Dan Orlowitz.<\/p>\n

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Saudi Arabia’s starting XI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Saudi fans in Daejeon turned up to support their team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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United States U-20 players during the national anthem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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United States #20 Luca De La Torre competing for the ball with Saudi players<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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USA #17 Brooks Lennon celebrating his goal in the 40th minute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Saudi #11 Abdulrahman Alyami in action against United States #8 Tyler Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Saudi captain #6 Sami Alnaji dispatching a corner kick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Saudi Arabian players celebrating the equaliser scored by #5 Alamri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Saudi Arabian players saluting their fans after the final whistle was blown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the final group stage match of the 2017 U-20 World Cup Group F, Saudi Arabia drew 1-1 against the United States to clinch a knock-out spot. Brooks Lennon opened the score in the 40th minute after firing in from close range, but the Stars and Stripes were reduced to 10 men after\u00a0Cameron Carter-Vickers received his second yellow card. Abdulelah Alamri was the hero for Saudi Arabia as he rose the highest to head home a corner in the 74th minute. The result saw the West Asian side finished as one of the best third-placed team and advance to the Round of 16. Meanwhile, the United States won Group F … Continue reading “U20 World Cup: Saudi Arabia go through while USA top Group F”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":3935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[856,45,27],"tags":[825,830,845],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rest-of-asia","category-saudi-arabia","category-west-asia","tag-2017-fifa-u-20-world-cup","tag-saudi-arabia-u-20","tag-united-states-u-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}