{"id":758411,"date":"2026-06-25T02:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758411\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:28:13","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-live-updates-south-africa-0-0-south-korea-czechia-0-0-mexico-at-half-time-brazil-defeat-3-0-scotland-as-morocco-wins-4-2-over-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/758411\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026 LIVE updates: South Africa 0-0 South Korea, Czechia 0-0 Mexico at half-time; Brazil defeat 3-0 Scotland as Morocco wins 4-2 over Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally we have a goal and it\u2019s claimed by the hometown heroes, Mexico. They don\u2019t need any more goals to progress, and this one alone may seal Czechia\u2019s early departure from the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Mateo Chavez has the honour after a fighting pass from Luis Romo who was surrounded by Czech players. Chavez gets to the end of it and runs solo up the right side of the pitch, beating both a defender and Kovar by chipping it over him and into the goal.<\/p>\n<p>The stadium is deafening in response.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico 1-0 Czechia, 55 minutes<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mexico\u2019s Mateo Chavez celebrates after scoring his team\u2019s first goal against Czechia. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c8b70ad48ee323e65ab64d4c875afc935aed4675.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Mexico\u2019s Mateo Chavez celebrates after scoring his team\u2019s first goal against Czechia. AP Photo\/Fernando Llano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finally we have a goal and it\u2019s claimed by the hometown heroes, Mexico. They don\u2019t need any more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-758411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758411","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=758411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}