{"id":738595,"date":"2026-06-15T19:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/738595\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:30:13","slug":"football-soccer-lukaku-on-bench-for-belgium-shobeir-in-goal-for-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/738595\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Soccer-Lukaku on bench for Belgium, Shobeir in goal for Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE, June \u206015 (Reuters) &#8211; Belgium&#8217;s Romelu Lukaku starts on \u2060the bench for Monday&#8217;s World \u200cCup Group G opener against Egypt after an injury-hit season for Italian side Napoli.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Lukaku \u200bis Belgium&#8217;s record goalscorer, \u2060but did not \u2060start a game for Napoli in 2025-26<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u2060Goalkeeper \u200cThibaut Courtois and midfielder Kevin De Bruyne start for \u2060Belgium in their fourth World Cup \u200bcampaign<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u200cEgypt, seeking their first World Cup \u2060finals win \u200bin their fourth appearance, are captained by Mo Salah on his 34th \u2060birthday<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Coach Hossam Hassan \u200bstarts Mostafa Shobeir in goal<\/p>\n<p>Lineups:<\/p>\n<p>Belgium: Thibaut Courtois; Thomas Meunier, Brandon Mechele, Nathan Ngoy, \u2060Timothy Castagne; Youri Tielemans, Kevin De Bruyne, Amadou Onana; Leandro Trossard, Charles De Ketelaere, Jeremy Doku<\/p>\n<p>Egypt: Mostafa Shobeir; \u200bMohamed Hany, Hamdi Fathi, \u2060Yasser Ibrahim, Ahmed Fattouh; Mohannad Lasheen, \u200bMarwan Attia; Mohamed Salah, \u200cMostafa Abdel Raouf &#8220;Zico&#8221;, Emam \u200bAshour; Omar Marmoush<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Sam Tobin, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE, June \u206015 (Reuters) &#8211; Belgium&#8217;s Romelu Lukaku starts on \u2060the bench for Monday&#8217;s World \u200cCup Group G&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,13201,596,85,21418],"class_list":["post-738595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738595","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=738595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}