{"id":795941,"date":"2026-07-12T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795941\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:03:09","slug":"world-cup-2026-lamine-yamal-kylian-mbappe-lionel-messi-harry-kane-pick-your-world-cup-semi-final-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795941\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Lamine Yamal, Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi, Harry Kane? Pick your World Cup semi-final XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And then there were four &#8211; and what a final four it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spain will face France on Tuesday, then defending champions Argentina play England on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And the sides are jam-packed with quality in every position &#8211; Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Lamine Yamal, Harry Kane&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you had to pick a combined XI from the remaining four, who would you choose?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport have had a go at picking their XI below and we want to see if you can do better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Make your selections and comment on our choices below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And then there were four &#8211; and what a final four it is. Spain will face France on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-795941","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\/795941","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=795941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}