{"id":662133,"date":"2026-06-28T03:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/662133\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T03:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:27:09","slug":"fifa-world-cup-group-j-live-algeria-vs-austria-build-up-team-news-tv-coverage-radio-commentary-live-text-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/662133\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup Group J LIVE: Algeria vs Austria &#8211; build-up, team news, TV coverage, radio commentary &#038; live text updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran fans watch on anxiouslypublished at 04:09 BST<\/p>\n<p>04:09 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Algeria 1-1 Austria<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\">Pooria Jafereh<br \/>BBC Persian<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iranian fans are<br \/>\nwatching Austria v Algeria anxiously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If<br \/>\nthere is a winner in that game, Iran will qualify for the knockout stage with three points from their three draws. But if Austria and Algeria draw, Iran will<br \/>\nbe eliminated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There<br \/>\nis also a historical echo here. The reason final group games are now played<br \/>\nsimultaneously goes back to the infamous 1982 match between West Germany and<br \/>\nAustria, the result of which eliminated Algeria after both European sides knew what<br \/>\nthey needed to go through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran fans watch on anxiouslypublished at 04:09 BST 04:09 BST Algeria 1-1 Austria Pooria JaferehBBC Persian Iranian fans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-662133","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\/662133","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=662133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}