{"id":705422,"date":"2026-06-15T12:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705422\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:26:08","slug":"world-cup-2026-premier-league-stars-score-as-germany-and-sweden-dominate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/705422\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Premier League stars score as Germany and Sweden dominate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tielemans prepares to lead Belgium against Egyptpublished at 13:15 BST<\/p>\n

13:15 BST<\/p>\n

Belgium v Egypt (20:00 BST)<\/p>\n

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Belgium and Egypt face each other in Seattle tonight from 20:00 BST in their opening match of Group G, which will be shown live on BBC 1, iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.<\/p>\n

It’s the first time captain Tielemans will lead Belgium out at a major tournament since taking the armband from Kevin De Bruyne in 2025. <\/p>\n

The midfielder said he hoped to take the positivity from Aston Villa’s Europa League triumph last month, but said: “I can tell \u200bevery first game’s very nervous…so it’s going to be up to us to start well.”<\/p>\n

He \u200badded: “Go for it, no regrets and then anything can happen.”<\/p>\n

Manchester City’s Jeremy Doku will be aiming for the same impressive start he made at Euro 2024 when he made 26 dribbles – the most by any player in the group stage since France’s Franck Ribery’s 32 dribbles at Euro 2012.<\/p>\n

Egypt, of course, have Mohamed Salah. <\/p>\n

The 29th ranked team will be hoping their talisman helps them reach the knockouts for the first time since 1934. <\/p>\n

The 34-year-old had his worst season for Liverpool in 2025-26 but still racked up more than 20 goals and assists and might feel he has a point to prove after leaving the Reds at the end of the season. <\/p>\n

Hossam Hassan’s side also have a City star in their ranks with Omar Marmoush expected to start up top so, it could be yet another World Cup match with a lot of goals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tielemans prepares to lead Belgium against Egyptpublished at 13:15 BST 13:15 BST Belgium v Egypt (20:00 BST) Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-705422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705422","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=705422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}