{"id":486681,"date":"2026-06-20T07:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/486681\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T07:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:08:09","slug":"fifa-world-cup-miguel-almiron-sent-off-for-covering-his-mouth-as-paraguay-beat-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/486681\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa World Cup: Miguel Almiron sent off for covering his mouth as Paraguay beat Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Former Newcastle forward Almiron was given his marching orders in first-half stoppage time after covering his mouth while he appeared to direct a comment at Turkey\u2019s Mert Muldur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">In a scrappy match, Deniz Gul had a golden chance to equalise in the 88th minute when Paraguay goalkeeper Orlando Gill could only parry a shot, but he stabbed his shot wide of the goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Merih Demiral glanced a header wide in the dying seconds and was almost in tears afterwards as the Turkey players slumped to the turf in bitter disappointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Go all in to unlock every Fifa World Cup 2026 match with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/passes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/passes\">TVNZ+ Event Pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Newcastle forward Almiron was given his marching orders in first-half stoppage time after covering his mouth while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5831,244209,2851,806,4498,150592,62243,10542,36862,2082,209,244210,293,3012,20558,244208,59037,111,139,69,6662,239295,12229,1534,13743,213,129948,1361,165,5858,377],"class_list":["post-486681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alive","tag-almiron","tag-also","tag-as","tag-beat","tag-cohosts","tag-covering","tag-cup","tag-fifa","tag-for","tag-group","tag-guaranteed","tag-his","tag-hopes","tag-kept","tag-miguel","tag-mouth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-off","tag-paraguay","tag-result","tag-saturday","tag-sent","tag-sports","tag-tenman","tag-that","tag-their","tag-turkey","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486681","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=486681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}