{"id":755652,"date":"2026-06-23T11:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/755652\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:02:08","slug":"fifa-world-cup-toronto-panama-croatia-face-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/755652\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup Toronto: Panama, Croatia face each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Panama is hoping for a better outcome tonight when it plays its second World Cup game at Toronto Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Los Canaleros dropped a 1-0 decision to Ghana in the Group L opener last Wednesday in the Ontario capital, surrendering the winning goal five minutes into second-half stoppage time. Manager Thomas Christiansen called the late defeat \u201ccruel\u201d and a \u201cgut punch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Panama will look to level its record when it faces Croatia, which lost 4-2 to pre-tournament favourite England last Wednesday in Arlington, Texas. Both sides are calling the 7 p.m. ET showdown a must-win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It will be the fourth World Cup match played at Toronto Stadium, and third straight involving teams not from North America. Senegal and Iraq square off in a Group I match on Friday, and a July 2 knockout-stage game will round out the Toronto schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada earned its first-ever World Cup point when it rallied to tie Bosnia-Herzegovina 1-1 on June 12th in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is Panama\u2019s second World Cup and the 34th-ranked team will be underdogs against Croatia. Panama has only scored twice and hasn\u2019t picked up a point in four previous World Cup matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is Croatia\u2019s seventh World Cup, and it has lost the opener at four of them. However, the side has only lost back-to-back World Cup matches once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Panama is hoping for a better outcome tonight when it plays its second World Cup game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,82,3302],"class_list":["post-755652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755652","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=755652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}