{"id":703178,"date":"2026-06-14T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/703178\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:56:09","slug":"australia-ease-past-turkiye-in-world-cup-opener-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/703178\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia ease past Turkiye in World Cup opener &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-06-14T06:53:28+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Vancouver<\/p>\n<p>Australia made a winning start to their 2026 World Cup campaign on Sunday, defeating Turkiye 2-0 in their opening Group D match at Vancouver Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Socceroos took control midway through the first half when Nestory Irankunda broke the deadlock in the 27th minute, capping a period of sustained Australian pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Turkiye attempted to respond after the break and enjoyed long spells of possession, but struggled to break down a disciplined Australian defense.<\/p>\n<p>Australia effectively sealed the result in the 75th minute when Connor Metcalfe found the net to double his side&#8217;s advantage and put the match beyond reach. Goalkeeper Patrick Beach also helped keep Turkiye out, making a series of key saves as Tony Popovic&#8217;s side protected their lead in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid star Arda Guler was among Turkiye&#8217;s brightest performers, but the Crescent-Stars failed to convert their chances as Australia comfortably saw out the remainder of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian victory spoiled Turkiye&#8217;s first World Cup appearance since 2002, when they reached the semifinals and finished third, and gave Australia three points, placing them second behind the United States, who beat Paraguay 4-1 in the group&#8217;s opening fixture.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781420124898.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Socceroos next face the United States, while Turkiye will look to recover against Paraguay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-06-14T06:53:28+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Vancouver Australia made a winning start to their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1246,303958,4,450,7183,451,3,452,453,23308,84938],"class_list":["post-703178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-australia","tag-australia-ease-past-turkiye-in-world-cup-opener","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-fifa","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-turkiye","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}