After wobbling throughout their tune-up friendlies simply over per week in the past, it is nearly time for america males’s nationwide group to retake the pitch in a event that shall be a great litmus check forward of the 2026 World Cup. Expectations are excessive for Gregg Berhalter and the squad in Copa America but when they can make it out of Group C together with Uruguay, Panama, and Bolivia, the final of which they are going to face on Sunday, they’re going to probably be met by both Brazil or Colombia within the semifinals. Whereas it is an opportunity to avenge dropping 5-1 to Colombia and drawing Brazil throughout pre-tournament friendlies, it makes advancing additional in Copa America fairly a tall activity for the Crimson, White, and Blue.

Listed below are our storylines, how one can watch the match and extra:

watch and odds

• Date: Sunday, June 23 | Time: 6 p.m. ET
• Location: AT&T Stadium  — Arlington, Texas
• TV: FOX  | Dwell stream: Fubo (Strive totally free)
• Odds: United States -570; Draw +550; Bolivia +1700

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Storylines

United States: In a recreation like this in opposition to a struggling Bolivia aspect, the USMNT will wish to come out and make a press release to place these friendlies behind them. In Christian Pulisic, Tim Weah, Gio Reyna and Folarin Balogun, there’s loads of high quality within the USMNT assault so if they will get forward early, this recreation may turn out to be a route, however they’re going to wish to be certain of that the match would not drag on with out objectives because the nerves of the event may enable Bolivia a path to victory.

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Bolivia: Winless of their final three matches after a victory over 164th-ranked Andorra, there is not a lot of a risk within the Bolivian nationwide group as their primary benefit is the elevation of their residence stadium in La Paz. With out their file purpose scorer Marcelo Moreno, who retired, head coach Antônio Carlos Zago has been looking for the subsequent dependable particular person to guide the road nevertheless it has been a troublesome prospect which is a part of the rationale why Bolivia have solely scored 4 objectives of their final 5 matches in all competitions whereas additionally struggling in World Cup qualifying. 

Prediction

Christian Pulisic will open the scoring for the USMNT and from there they’re going to be off to the races stepping a bit nearer to qualifying for the knockout phases of Copa America. Choose: USMNT 3, Bolivia 0