LOS ANGELES, June 26 -- The 98th minute. SoFi Stadium contained 70,000 people and the noise of a match that had no business being so good, and when Kaan Ayhan slid to knock the ball home from six yards, Turkey had their first celebration of the 2026 World Cup. The United States, who had secured their place in the knockout round before the final whistle blew, absorbed their first loss of the tournament and walked off the Inglewood turf to something that felt almost like applause. The scoreline read 3-2, but the evening's most telling detail belonged to Arda Guler, named Man of the Match after delivering, in a game that meant nothing for Turkey's position, the tournament performance his side had desperately needed from the opening whistle t...