{"id":878001,"date":"2025-12-16T22:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/americans-abroad-midweek-preview-robinson-thompson-and-more\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:31:10","slug":"americans-abroad-midweek-preview-robinson-thompson-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/americans-abroad-midweek-preview-robinson-thompson-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Abroad Midweek Preview: Robinson, Thompson, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n\t\t<main id=\"main\"><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-750146\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" itemscope>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Fulham is seeking its second-straight EFL Cup semifinal berth in the past two years. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Antonee Robinson <\/strong>and his Cottager teammates will travel to St. James Park on Wednesday for a quarterfinal date against Newcastle United. The U.S. men\u2019s national team left back made his long-awaited return on Saturday, logging 90 minutes in a 3-2 road win over Burnley.<\/p>\n<p>After missing most of the campaign due to a lingering knee issue, the 28-year-old Robinson looked back to his old self again. He delivered a secondary assist on Fulham\u2019s second goal at Turf Moor while also delivering several key plays on the defensive side of the field.<\/p>\n<p>Fulham boss Marco Silva will hope that Robinson can stay in the starting lineup long-term as the West London club seeks a push into the top-half of the table.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, <strong>Alyssa Thompson<\/strong> leads Chelsea into a UEFA Women\u2019s Champions Cup trip to VfL Wolfsburg. <strong>Phallon Tullis-Joyce<\/strong> and Manchester United take on Juventus. <strong>Chris Richards<\/strong> and Crystal Palace welcome Finnish side KuPS to Selhurst Park in Conference League play.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, <strong>Ricardo<\/strong> <strong>Pepi<\/strong>, <strong>Sergino Dest<\/strong> and PSV aim to advance in the Dutch KNVB Cup. <strong>Erik<\/strong> <strong>Palmer-Brown<\/strong> seeks to do the same in the Greek Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a closer look at this week\u2019s Americans Abroad:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Europe<\/h3>\n<hr>\n<h2>Soccer Conference League<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Chris Richards<\/strong> and Crystal Palace host KuPS on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dante Polvara<\/strong> and Aberdeen visit Sparta Prague on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lennard Maloney<\/strong> and Mainz host Samsunspor on Thursday.<\/p>\n<h2>Soccer Women\u2019s Champions League<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Lindsey<\/strong> <strong>Heaps<\/strong>, <strong>Lily<\/strong> <strong>Yohannes<\/strong>, <strong>Korbin Shrader<\/strong> and Lyon host Atletico Madrid on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Phallon Tullis-Joyce <\/strong>and Manchester United visit Juventus on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alyssa<\/strong> <strong>Thompson<\/strong>, <strong>Catarina<\/strong> <strong>Macario<\/strong>, <strong>Naomi Girma<\/strong> and Chelsea visit VfL Wolfsburg on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Fox <\/strong>and Arsenal visit OH Leuven on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eva<\/strong> <strong>Gaetino<\/strong>, <strong>Crystal Dunn <\/strong>and PSG visit Benfica on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>England<\/h3>\n<hr>\n<h2>Soccer EFL Cup<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Antonee Robinson<\/strong> and Fulham visit Newcastle United on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Spain<\/h3>\n<hr>\n<h2>Soccer Copa Del Rey<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Johnny Cardoso<\/strong> and Atletico Madrid visit Atletico Baleares on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Scotland<\/h3>\n<hr>\n<h2>Soccer Premiership<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Auston Trusty <\/strong>and Celtic visit Dundee United on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cameron Carter-Vickers <\/strong>is OUT FOR SEASON (Achilles Injury) for Celtic.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Netherlands<\/h3>\n<hr>\n<h2>Soccer KNVB Cup<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Ricardo<\/strong> <strong>Pepi<\/strong>, <strong>Sergino Dest<\/strong> and PSV host GVVV Veenendaal on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Greece<\/h3>\n<hr>\n<h2>Soccer Cup<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Erik Palmer-Brown<\/strong> and Panathinaikos visit Kavala on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/main>\n\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbisoccer.com\/2025\/12\/americans-abroad-midweek-preview-robinson-thompson-and-more\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Larry Henry Jr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Fulham is seeking its second-straight EFL Cup semifinal berth in the past two years. Antonee Robinson and his Cottager teammates will travel to St. James Park on Wednesday for a quarterfinal date against Newcastle United. The U.S. men\u2019s national team left back made his long-awaited return on Saturday, logging 90 minutes in a 3-2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91888,2623,2005],"tags":[91887,5464],"class_list":{"0":"post-878001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-abroad","8":"category-americans","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-abroad","11":"tag-americans"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}