{"id":790138,"date":"2026-10-03T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790138\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:02:10","slug":"france-1-1-italy-michael-olise-scores-before-alessandro-bastoni-equalises-in-nations-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790138\/","title":{"rendered":"France 1-1 Italy: Michael Olise scores before Alessandro Bastoni equalises in Nations League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michael Olise scored a fantastic goal as France drew with Italy in the Nations League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was Zinedine Zidane&#8217;s first home game as France boss after winning two matches on the road in this international break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Olise opened the scoring at the Stade de France from outside the box with a shot that crashed in via the underside of the bar, after Rayan Cherki rolled a free-kick to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bayern Munich&#8217;s Olise has been involved in 14 goals in 15 games for France this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Italy levelled when Alessandro Bastoni stole the ball off Lucas da Cunha before beating the advanced Mike Maignan from the edge of the box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">France had Dayot Upamecano sent off late on for a second booking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Azzurri have won one, drawn one and lost one since Roberto Mancini&#8217;s return as head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere in Group A1, Belgium &#8211; now managed by Mark van Bommel &#8211; beat Turkey 3-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kevin de Bruyne netted twice with Romelu Lukaku scoring the other goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Olise scored a fantastic goal as France drew with Italy in the Nations League. It was Zinedine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790138","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=790138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}