{"id":520962,"date":"2026-07-02T03:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/520962\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T03:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:23:08","slug":"penalty-pain-for-pape-as-senegal-exit-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/520962\/","title":{"rendered":"Penalty pain for Pape as Senegal exit World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-article__summary\">Pape Matar Sarr came off the bench after 73 minutes as it went from joy to penalty pain for Senegal in a thrilling Round of 32 clash against Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal looked to be cruising into the Round of 16 as goals from Habib Diarra (25 minutes) and Ismaila Sarr (51) had them seemingly in complete control in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>It all changed in the final five minutes of normal time as Romelu Lukaku flicked home for 2-1 on 86 minutes before Youri Tielmans rose to beat goalkeeper Mory Diaw to Leandro Trossard&#8217;s cross and the ball floated into the empty net.<\/p>\n<p>The game looked to be heading to a penalty shoot-out before being decided by a spot-kick in the last seconds of extra time. Tielmans went down under Lamine Camara&#8217;s challenge, the penalty was awarded after a VAR check and Tielemans stroked into the top corner.<\/p>\n<p>There was still one last chance for Senegal as Pape lined up a free-kick, central, 20 yards out in the final seconds &#8211; however, he fired over, the full-time whistle blew and Belgium secured a Round of 16 tie against either USA or Bosnia-Herzegovina.<\/p>\n<p>                    Pape Matar Sarr and Krepin Diatta take on Timothy Castagne and Youri Tielemans<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pape Matar Sarr came off the bench after 73 minutes as it went from joy to penalty pain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,4277],"class_list":["post-520962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}