{"id":539172,"date":"2026-07-08T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539172\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:15:08","slug":"world-cup-2026-harry-kane-erling-haaland-kylian-mbappe-in-last-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/539172\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Harry Kane, Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe in last eight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norway v England, Miami Stadium, Saturday 22:00 BST<\/p>\n

What to watch out for: Norway goal machine Erling Haaland has scored seven goals in four games at the World Cup and was at his clinical best in netting twice to knock out five-time winners Brazil<\/a> in the last 16. <\/p>\n

The Manchester City striker has 62 goals in 54 internationals – an average of one every 71 minutes. He is also on a run of scoring in 14 consecutive games for his country, with 27 goals in that time.<\/p>\n

However, lurking just one goal behind Haaland in the race for the Golden Boot is England captain Harry Kane, whose penalty against Mexico proved the winner in a World Cup classic.<\/p>\n

The Bayern Munich forward, 32, scored more goals for club and country (73) than anyone else in European football in 2025-26 and has continued that form in North America. <\/p>\n

With 14, he has become England’s all-time leading goalscorer at World Cups and will fancy his chances of adding more in this quarter-final.<\/p>\n

Key stats: England will participate in their 11th World Cup quarter-final – the third-highest number behind Brazil and Germany (both on 14). England, however, have only won three of their games at this stage.<\/p>\n

By contrast, Norway have only qualified for four World Cups and this is the first time they have reached the quarter-finals of a major tournament. They have done it the hard way by scoring and conceding in all of their games so far. Only West Germany in 1954 have reached a World Cup semi-final with such a record. <\/p>\n

How to follow: Listen to full BBC Radio 5 Live commentary on BBC Sounds and follow live text updates on the BBC Sport website and app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norway v England, Miami Stadium, Saturday 22:00 BST What to watch out for: Norway goal machine Erling Haaland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-539172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}