{"id":261546,"date":"2025-11-14T02:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/261546\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T02:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:10:05","slug":"internationals-hugo-ekitike-scores-first-senior-goal-as-france-qualify-for-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/261546\/","title":{"rendered":"Internationals: Hugo Ekitike scores first senior goal as France qualify for the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Internationals: Hugo Ekitike scores first senior goal as France qualify for the World Cup\" title=\"Internationals: Hugo Ekitike scores first senior goal as France qualify for the World Cup\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/hugo-ekitike-france-13112025_78a52a89ecdcbe12bf24587019158859.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/>Published 4 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Sam Williams<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-hg7nzy\">Hugo Ekitike scored his first senior international goal as France confirmed their qualification for the World Cup on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Liverpool forward came off the bench and rounded off Les Bleus\u2019 4-0 win over Ukraine with a driving run and smart finish late on. Victory at Parc des Princes \u2013 where Ibrahima Konate was an unused substitute \u2013 secured top spot in qualifying Group B for France.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Dominik Szoboszlai assisted Hungary\u2019s goal in their crucial 1-0 away victory over Armenia. <\/p>\n<p>Szoboszlai, captaining a team also including Milos Kerkez, delivered a superb cross for Barnabas Varga to head home the winner.  <\/p>\n<p>Hungary now sit two points behind Group F leaders Portugal ahead of their final qualifier, against the Republic of Ireland in Budapest, on Sunday. Ireland, who beat Portugal 2-0 in Dublin on Thursday, are one point adrift of Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>At U21 level, Kieran Morrison played 75 minutes of Northern Ireland\u2019s 1-0 win versus Latvia in European Championship qualifying, while Armin Pecsi started as Hungary beat Faroe Islands 3-0 in a friendly. <\/p>\n<p>Published 4 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 4 hours ago By Sam Williams Hugo Ekitike scored his first senior international goal as France&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[607,608,59,596,603,598,609,611,610,134,602,601,597,606,599,604,101,600,56,54,55,605],"class_list":["post-261546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-gb","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}