{"id":920091,"date":"2026-07-15T17:13:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/us-soccer-analyst-forced-to-take-his-words-back-after-frances-loss-at-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:13:47","slug":"us-soccer-analyst-forced-to-take-his-words-back-after-frances-loss-at-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/us-soccer-analyst-forced-to-take-his-words-back-after-frances-loss-at-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"US Soccer Analyst Forced To Take His Words Back After France\u2019s Loss at World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<p>For the first time at this World Cup, France was comprehensively outplayed, and at the worst possible time. Spain has beaten France 2-0 in what was a masterclass by Spain, answering many of the doubts surrounding them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"player_stn-player__Dybik\">\n<p>Watch What\u2019s Trending Now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMore like I\u2019m not sure France will know what to do when they are suffocated to death by Spain\u2019s pressure. Brilliant efficiency from the Spanish. They continue to be underestimated by people, including me,\u201d said soccer analyst Taylor Twellman.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few days before the semifinal, Taylor Twellman believed Spain was now going to face its toughest opponent in France. He praised France\u2019s attack, saying, \u201cthe Spanish team is really gonna have to deal with something,\u201d talking about how Dembele, Olise, and Mbappe can rattle any defense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Twellman also questioned whether Spain had faced opponents carrying this much pace, quality, and attacking danger in this World Cup. He even admitted that he would be shocked if the World Cup final eluded France.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-align=\"center\" id=\"node-twitter-embed-blockquote-4\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">More like I\u2019m not sure \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 will know what to do when they are suffocated to death by \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 pressure. Brilliant efficiency from the Spanish. They continue to be underestimated by people including me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7aheCiib3n\">https:\/\/t.co\/7aheCiib3n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Taylor Twellman (@TaylorTwellman) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TaylorTwellman\/status\/2077136015152529704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>But once the game began at Dallas Stadium in Arlington, that prediction quickly began to move in the opposite direction. Spain settled into the game from the get-go, controlled possession, and never allowed France\u2019s attack to find any real rhythm. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Oyarzabal opened the scoring from the spot after Lamine Yamal nipped in ahead of Lucas Digne and won a penalty. That goal handed France their first deficit of the match and put the pressure onto Didier Deschamps\u2019 side even before the hydration break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spain never looked satisfied after taking the\u00a01-goal\u00a0lead and kept pushing while France\u00a0struggled to even create a chance. Pedro Porro doubled the\u00a0lead\u00a0after\u00a0a 1-2\u00a0with Dani Olmo before beating Mike Maignan. Soon after, Yamal thought he had scored, but he was clearly offside, and that kept France within reach. But by then, Spain had complete control of the game while France tried to do everything to get a goal back.<\/p>\n<p>Rodri controlled the game\u2019s tempo while Pau Cubarsi, Cucurella and Aymeric Laporte frustrated every French attacker. France\u2019s dangerous front three didn\u2019t look in touch despite having scored 13 goals between Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele and 10 assists between the front three.<\/p>\n<p>Former France star Patrick Vieira also admitted Spain won the tactical battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpain won the game in every aspect. The French team didn\u2019t turn up at all,\u201d Vieira said. \u201cI said before that Spain needed to be at their best to beat the French team and they did it. It was a big expectation of France to win the World Cup. We are all really disappointed by the result but mostly by the performance. We needed our top players to perform today and they didn\u2019t do it. It wasn\u2019t one or two, it was all of them collectively. It was really bad,\u201d Vieira told ITV1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, when the final whistle arrived, Spain celebrated a place in their first World Cup final since 2010. Just days before, many believed that Spain might be a good team, but France were too far ahead. But Spain have answered every question and earned a shot at calling themselves World Champions once again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentiallysports.com\/us-sports-soccer-news-suffocated-to-death-by-spain-pressure-us-soccer-analyst-forced-to-take-his-words-back-after-frances-loss-at-world-cup\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Samatha Grisby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer For the first time at this World Cup, France was comprehensively outplayed, and at the worst possible time. Spain has beaten France 2-0 in what was a masterclass by Spain, answering many of the doubts surrounding them. Watch What\u2019s Trending Now! \u201cMore like I\u2019m not sure France will know what to do when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":920092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23380,2005],"tags":[6518,5532],"class_list":["post-920091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-analyst","category-soccer","tag-analyst","tag-soccer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920091","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=920091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}