{"id":562984,"date":"2026-03-26T22:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562984\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T22:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:18:11","slug":"brazil-1-2-france-kylian-mbappe-one-goal-from-equalling-frances-all-time-scorer-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562984\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil 1-2 France: Kylian Mbappe one goal from equalling France&#8217;s all-time scorer record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">France were reduced to 10 men in the second half when last man Dayot Upamecano fouled Brazil full-back Wesley just outside the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, despite having one man less, Didier Deschamps&#8217; France doubled their lead through Hugo Ekitike&#8217;s close-range chipped effort in the 65th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brazil, managed by former Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti, pulled one goal back 13 minutes later when centre-back Bremer turned in Luiz Henrique&#8217;s low cross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brentford forward Igor Tudor made his Brazil debut coming off the bench for Manchester United&#8217;s Matheus Cunha but his side were unable to fashion an equaliser in the closing stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brazil were without their own all-time top scorer Neymar, who has not been included in Ancelotti&#8217;s squad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c8eg0y22w2ro\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">due to fitness issues.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The teams were playing at Gillette Stadium, home of NFL team the New England Patriots and venue of France&#8217;s final World Cup group game against Norway this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France were reduced to 10 men in the second half when last man Dayot Upamecano fouled Brazil full-back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-562984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}