Turkey v USA: Teams confirmed as World Cup hosts look to sign off in style

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Mauricio Pochettino has shuffled his pack for the final Group game of his World Cup campaign.

The USA have won the group so choose to rotate their squad, while Turkey are already out after losing their opening two matches.

Here’s how the sides line up in Los Angeles.

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Turkey team news

Vincenzo Montella has made seven changes to the starting XI that faced Paraguay – Zeki Çelik, Eren Elmalı, Orkun Kökçü, Ozan Kabak, Oguz Aydın, Salih Özcan and Baris Yılmaz come in today. Yunus Akgün is injured, Ismail Yüksek, Ferdi Kadıoğlu, Merih Demiral, Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Kerem Aktürkoğlu and Mert Müldür drop out.

Turkey XI: Ugurcan Çakir, Eren Elmali, Abdülkerim Bardakci, Ozan Kabak, Zeki Çelik, Orkun Kökçü, Salih Özcan, Kenan Yildiz, Arda Güler, Oguz Aydin, Baris Alper Yilmaz

United States team news:

Mauricio Pochettino has made nine changes to the starting XI that faced Australia – Matt Turner, Joe Scally, Mark McKenzie, Auston Trusty, Miles Robinson, Brenden Aaronson, Sebastian Berhalter, Giovanni Reyna, and Timothy Weah come in today for Matt Freese, Tyler Adams, Tim Ream, Malik Tillman, Antonee Robinson, Folarin Balogun, Chris Richards, Alex Freeman, and Sergiño Dest.

USA XI: Matt Turner, Mark McKenzie, Miles Robinson, Auston Trusty, Joe Scally, Weston McKennie, Sebastian Berhalter, Timothy Weah, Giovanni Reyna, Brenden Aaronson, Ricardo Pepi

Where to watch Turkey v USA: TV and online streams

Turkey versus the USA kicks-off at 3am in the early hours of Friday morning UK time. It will be broadcast on ITV1 and STV and available to stream via ITVX and the STV Player.

Stats for Turkey v USA

  • Turkey have not won a match at the World Cup finals since the 2002 third-place play-off when they beat co-hosts South Korea
  • Turkey have not gone three games without scoring since 2010/11
  • The teams have met five times previously, with both sides enjoying two victories
  • The USA have never before won three successive games at a World Cup

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