{"id":691701,"date":"2026-07-14T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/691701\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:48:11","slug":"france-vs-spain-live-world-cup-2026-semi-final-score-commentary-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/691701\/","title":{"rendered":"France vs Spain LIVE: World Cup 2026 semi-final score, commentary &#038; updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 20:33 BST<\/p>\n<p>20:33 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">France 0-1 Spain<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A goal down, and now France have to replace influential defender William Saliba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He slowly walks off and is replaced by Crystal Palace defender Maxence Lacroix, who helped the Eagles win the Conference League at the end of last season. What a period for Lacroix. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gunners and France fans will be hoping Saliba recovers quickly. Arsenal play Manchester City in the Community Shield on 16 August and their first Premier League game, at home to Coventry, is only on 21 August &#8211; one month and two days after the World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Saliba walks off alongside the France physios\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/892c0bb1-d269-4b2d-b966-b24335e9c918.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 20:33 BST 20:33 BST France 0-1 Spain A goal down, and now France have to replace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-691701","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\/691701","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=691701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}