{"id":505849,"date":"2026-03-31T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505849\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:54:09","slug":"world-cup-play-offs-final-live-bosnia-herzegovina-vs-italy-czech-republic-vs-denmark-kosovo-vs-turkey-sweden-vs-poland-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505849\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup play-offs final LIVE: Bosnia-Herzegovina vs Italy, Czech Republic vs Denmark, Kosovo vs Turkey &#038; Sweden vs Poland &#8211; text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FULL-TIMEpublished at 21:41 BST<\/p>\n<p>21:41 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Sweden 3-2 Poland<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sweden have done it!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite a miserable qualifying campaign which saw Sweden lose home and away to Kosovo, with Jon Dahl Tomasson sacked in October, they have booked their spot at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Graham Potter came in as Tomasson&#8217;s replacement and Sweden had a second chance through their performances in the Nations League &#8211;  and they have qualified for the summer&#8217;s finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal striker Viktor Gyokeres is their hero with an 88th-minute winner to send Sweden to North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FULL-TIMEpublished at 21:41 BST 21:41 BST Sweden 3-2 Poland Sweden have done it! Despite a miserable qualifying campaign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-505849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505849","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=505849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}