{"id":527282,"date":"2026-07-06T04:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/527282\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T04:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:08:09","slug":"england-hands-mexico-its-first-world-cup-loss-at-azteca-stadium-winning-3-2-to-reach-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/527282\/","title":{"rendered":"England hands Mexico its first World Cup loss at Azteca Stadium, winning 3-2 to reach quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jude Bellingham scored two goals 98 seconds apart, Harry Kane converted a penalty when England was down to 10 men, and the Three Lions handed Mexico its first World Cup<\/a> loss at Estadio Azteca, a wild 3-2 victory on Sunday night to reach the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

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England moves on to face Norway on Saturday in Miami Gardens, Florida, for a spot in the semifinals.<\/p>\n

Bellingham stunned the crowd of more than 80,000 at a venue where Mexico was unbeaten in 10 World Cup matches, including three this year, when he scored on a header in the 36th minute and again in the 38th on a pass from Kane.<\/p>\n

Juli\u00e1n Qui\u00f1ones scored for El Tri in the 42nd minute, and the game appeared to turn in Mexico\u2019s favor when England\u2019s Jarell Quansah was sent off in the 54th for a dangerous foul on Jes\u00fas Gallardo.<\/p>\n

But England was awarded a penalty for a challenge by Mexico goalkeeper Ra\u00fal Rangel, and Kane converted for his sixth goal of this tournament and 14th of his World Cup career, matching Gerd M\u00fcller of West Germany for fifth on the scoring list. Kane has six goals in this tournament, one behind Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and Erling Haaland in the Golden Boot race.<\/p>\n

\"on-fieldJulian Qui\u00f1ones scores Mexico’s first goal Sunday. Ulises Ruiz \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Kane then committed a foul that made him the first player since at least 1966 to score and concede a penalty in a World Cup game. Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez converted the kick with a stutter-step approach to move El Tri within 3-2.<\/p>\n

Mexico attacked relentlessly over the final 21 minutes, plus 11 minutes of stoppage time, but goalkeeper Jordan Pickford and England\u2019s defenders held steady.<\/p>\n

Mexico has not reached the quarterfinals since hosting in 1986. Since then, it has lost in the round of 16 eight times, failed to advance past the group stage in 2022 and was disqualified from the 1990 tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jude Bellingham scored two goals 98 seconds apart, Harry Kane converted a penalty when England was down to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-527282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527282","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=527282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}