{"id":769261,"date":"2026-06-30T05:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769261\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T05:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:47:18","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-as-it-happened-the-netherlands-germany-both-bow-out-after-losing-to-morocco-paraguay-in-penalty-shootouts-brazil-score-late-to-beat-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769261\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026 as it happened: The Netherlands, Germany both bow out after losing to Morocco, Paraguay in penalty shootouts; Brazil score late to beat Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guadalupe: Ismael Saibari scored the decisive goal in a penalty shootout, and Morocco sent the Netherlands to its earliest World Cup exit, eliminating the Dutch 3-2 after a 1-1 draw on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>With the shootout tied at 2-all after four rounds, Morocco goalkeeper Yassine Bounou made a strong save of Crysencio Summerville\u2019s attempt, batting it away with his left hand. Saibari then sent the winner into the low left corner as goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen went the other direction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Morroco celebrate the win. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/71cc486e2d818c9bafdd846d158e882845ca8ea3.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Morroco celebrate the win. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands had reached at least the round of 16 in 11 previous World Cups, including a quarterfinal appearance four years ago, when Morocco reached the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Cody Gakpo scored in the 72nd minute for Netherlands. After the goal, which was assisted by Summerville, the Dutch bench ran onto the field to embrace the 27-year-old Gakpo, who broke down in tears. Gakpo and his partner, Noa van der Bij, recently announced that they lost their unborn child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guadalupe: Ismael Saibari scored the decisive goal in a penalty shootout, and Morocco sent the Netherlands to its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-769261","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\/769261","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=769261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}