{"id":350853,"date":"2026-06-26T02:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350853\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T02:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:08:09","slug":"japan-and-sweden-play-to-1-1-draw-as-both-advance-to-knockout-round-at-the-world-cup-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350853\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan and Sweden play to 1-1 draw as both advance to knockout round at the World Cup | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Daizen Maeda gave Japan the lead and Anthony Elanga took it away six minutes later, giving Sweden a 1-1 draw Thursday night that sent both teams to the knockout round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/fifa-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is advancing out of the group stage for the third consecutive World Cup and fifth time in seven tries since first reaching the round of 16 as co-hosts in 2002. The Japanese team finished second in Group F behind the Netherlands and will play Brazil in Houston on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>kAm%96 $H656D 92G6 25G2?465 E@ E96 @4&lt;@FE C@F?5 E96 A2DE 7@FC E:&gt;6D E96J\u2019G6 BF2=:7:65 7@C E96 (@C=5 rFA 8@:?8 324&lt; E@ `hhc \u2014 H96? E96J C624965 E96 D6&gt;:7:?2=D E96 =2DE E:&gt;6 E96 &amp;]$] 9@DE65 D@446C\u2019D 3:886DE 6G6?E]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm|2652 D4@C65 y2A2?\u2019D D6G6?E9 8@2= @7 E96 E@FC?2&gt;6?E[ E96 4@F?ECJ\u2019D &gt;@DE 7@C 2? 6?E:C6 (@C=5 rFA] %92E E@AA65 E96 D:I E96 y2A2?6D6 D4@C65 H9:=6 C6249:?8 E96 C@F?5 @7 `e \ud83d\ude15 #FDD:2 6:89E J62CD 28@]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>k9C ^m<\/p>\n<p>kAmk2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^9F3^7:72\\H@C=5\\4FAQm$66 &gt;@C6 @7 p!\u2019D (@C=5 rFA 4@G6C286 96C6k^2mk^Am<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Daizen Maeda gave Japan the lead and Anthony Elanga took it away six minutes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,18957,125011,731,154],"class_list":["post-350853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-japan-sweden-world-cup-score","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}