{"id":779558,"date":"2026-07-05T00:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779558\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:20:10","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-live-updates-canada-v-morocco-france-v-paraguay-round-of-16-games-standings-players-teams-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779558\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2026 LIVE updates Canada v Morocco, France v Paraguay Round of 16 games, standings, players, teams, schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France survived the sweltering heat of Philadelphia and the dark arts of Paraguay as Kylian Mbappe continued his excellent goalscoring form at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Mbappe\u2019s second-half penalty, his seventh goal of the tournament so far, set up a quarter-final meeting with Morocco. The Real Madrid forward continues to match the exploits of Argentina\u2019s Lionel Messi, with both men also battling for the all-time World Cup scoring record.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s dominant performance came despite brutal conditions in Philadelphia, where an extreme heat warning was issued. Temperatures reached 37 degrees in the first half, when the match was played at a notably slower pace than usual.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mbappe converts France\u2019s second-half penalty.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a6e108bb88842bd3abec131a0156d356cead2434.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Mbappe converts France\u2019s second-half penalty.AP Photo\/Matt Rourke<\/p>\n<p>Mbappe\u2019s strike was his 19th in 19 World Cup matches, taking him within one goal of Messi\u2019s current tally of 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France survived the sweltering heat of Philadelphia and the dark arts of Paraguay as Kylian Mbappe continued his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-779558","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\/779558","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=779558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}