{"id":509032,"date":"2026-07-04T05:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/509032\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:40:08","slug":"fifa-world-cup-colombia-beat-ghana-to-move-into-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/509032\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa World Cup: Colombia beat Ghana to move into Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minutes later Ghana were forced into a change of their own when Alidu Seidu came on for the stricken Marvin Senaya.<\/p>\n

Colombia went ahead in the 14th minute after substitute Suarez showed persistence on the right flank and crossed for an unmarked Arias to steer home.<\/p>\n

That gave Carlos Queiroz\u2019s goal-shy Black Stars, who scored just twice in the group phase, a major headache.<\/p>\n

Colombia, roared on by a partisan crowd in Kansas City, continued to dominate, playing fluid, inventive football as they searched for a second goal.<\/p>\n

Bayern Munich forward Luis Diaz had a wonderful chance to double Colombia\u2019s lead in the 39th minute but scuffed his shot wide.<\/p>\n

Early in first-half stoppage time Ghana goalkeeper Lawrence Ati Zigi produced a superb save from Johan Mojica\u2019s downward header.<\/p>\n

The half-time numbers made grim reading for Ghana – not a single shot on target and less than half of Colombia\u2019s 319 completed passes – but they were still in the game.<\/p>\n

Colombia made hard work of the second half, squandering a number of chances to finish off their opponents.<\/p>\n

Diaz put the ball in the net but was flagged offside before striking another shot straight at Zigi.<\/p>\n

As time ticked down, Juan Quintero flashed a powerful shot wide but one goal turned out to be enough against a side that failed to muster a single shot on target.<\/p>\n

Go all in to unlock every Fifa World Cup 2026 match with a TVNZ+ Event Pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minutes later Ghana were forced into a change of their own when Alidu Seidu came on for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[41813,4498,6726,23708,10542,36862,5904,10036,296,685,2683,111,139,69,1118,66755,18833,1534,213,7187,61,253492,108006,377],"class_list":["post-509032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-41813","tag-beat","tag-become","tag-colombia","tag-cup","tag-fifa","tag-final","tag-ghana","tag-into","tag-last","tag-move","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-qualify","tag-round","tag-saturday","tag-sports","tag-team","tag-to","tag-toothless","tag-wasteful","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509032","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=509032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}