{"id":498910,"date":"2026-06-28T00:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/498910\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T00:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T00:27:09","slug":"fifa-world-cup-england-beat-panama-to-finish-top-of-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/498910\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa World Cup: England beat Panama to finish top of group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Croatia meanwhile made sure of claiming second place in the group behind England with a 2-1 victory over Ghana in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Petar Sucic and Nikola Vlasic scored the goals for Croatia, as Ghana were forced to settle for third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Friday\u2019s results had already guaranteed England, Croatia and Ghana a place in the knockout rounds, with the only issue to be settled the order of qualification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Croatia will face the second-placed team in Group K in the last 32, which will be decided later on Sunday when Portugal face Colombia at Miami\u2019s Hard Rock Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" 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":"Croatia meanwhile made sure of claiming second place in the group behind England with a 2-1 victory over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9526,4498,249389,10542,1634,46988,36862,18984,5267,209,42,20439,29118,22946,249390,43,1118,1523,50904,23908,75700,22312,10809,61,3010,40,38,41,39,8982,16566,102,377],"class_list":["post-498910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-another","tag-beat","tag-bellingham","tag-cup","tag-england","tag-ensure","tag-fifa","tag-finish","tag-goal","tag-group","tag-headlines","tag-jersey","tag-jude","tag-knockout","tag-laboured","tag-news","tag-of","tag-over","tag-panama","tag-qualified","tag-rounds","tag-scored","tag-sunday","tag-to","tag-top","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-victory","tag-winners","tag-with","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498910","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=498910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}