{"id":738557,"date":"2026-06-15T19:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/738557\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:10:15","slug":"world-cup-live-updates-spain-vs-cabo-verde-belgium-vs-egypt-saudi-arabia-vs-uruguay-iran-vs-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/738557\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup live updates: Spain vs Cabo Verde, Belgium vs Egypt, Saudi Arabia vs Uruguay, Iran vs New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/lcimg-4b0ee3a9-078b-43d4-8a4a-d1df170f9125.jpeg\" alt=\"\u00a0Romelu Lukaku of Belgium celebrates scoring his team's second goal during the international friendly match between Croatia and Belgium at Stadion HNK Rijeka on June 02, 2026 in Rijeka, Croatia.\" class=\"image_fluidImage__Sg10H\" data-component=\"LiveBlogPostImg\"\/>Romelu Lukaku will not be a starter for Belgium against Egypt (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Belgium&#8217;s Romelu Lukaku starts on the bench for \u200bthe World Cup Group G opener against Egypt after an injury-hit season for Italian \u200bside \u200cNapoli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Lukaku is Belgium&#8217;s record goalscorer, but did not start a game for Napoli \u200cin 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Goalkeeper Thibaut \u2060Courtois and midfielder Kevin De Bruyne \u200cstart for \u200bBelgium in \u200ctheir fourth World Cup campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Their lineup is:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Thibaut Courtois; Thomas Meunier, \u200cBrandon Mechele, Nathan Ngoy, Timothy Castagne; Youri Tielemans, \u200cKevin \u200bDe Bruyne, \u2060Amadou Onana; Leandro Trossard, Charles De Ketelaere, Jeremy Doku.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Egypt, seeking their first World Cup finals win in their fourth \u200bappearance, \u200care captained by Mo Salah on his 34th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">For Egypt, things tend to revolve around longtime Liverpool striker Salah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">This will probably be his last World Cup &#8211; although when we look at the likes of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and indeed Vozinha, playing at 40, maybe not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Here is the Egyptian lineup:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">\u00a0With reporting from Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Romelu Lukaku will not be a starter for Belgium against Egypt (Getty Images) Belgium&#8217;s Romelu Lukaku starts on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[131204,64,63,2071,356568,314119,129800,5579,16135,5575,356570,4125,6462,1736,14640,356569,2020,356567,85,39085,21418],"class_list":["post-738557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-belgium","tag-belgium-vs-egypt","tag-cabo-verde","tag-cape-verde","tag-egypt","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-iran","tag-iran-vs-new-zealand","tag-live","tag-live-updates","tag-new-zealand","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-saudi-arabia-vs-uruguay","tag-spain","tag-spain-vs-cabo-verde","tag-sports","tag-uruguay","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}