{"id":479355,"date":"2026-06-16T02:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479355\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T02:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:26:09","slug":"live-updates-eli-just-scores-again-as-nz-reclaim-lead-over-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479355\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Eli Just scores again as NZ reclaim lead over Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">The All Whites are taking on Iran in the first match of their 2026 FIFA World Cup campaign in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Elijah Just put New Zealand ahead with a volley in the 7th minute. Ramin Rezaeian levelled matters just after the half-hour mark. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Follow Brayden Harrison&#8217;s updates here and watch live on TVNZ1 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/competition\/fifa-2026\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/competition\/fifa-2026\">TVNZ+<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Belgium and Egypt &#8211; the other two teams in the group &#8211; earlier played out a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All Whites are taking on Iran in the first match of their 2026 FIFA World Cup campaign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2965,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-479355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all-whites","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}