{"id":710439,"date":"2026-06-18T00:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710439\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T00:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:32:12","slug":"ghana-vs-panama-live-fifa-world-cup-group-l-score-commentary-updates-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710439\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana vs Panama LIVE: FIFA World Cup Group L &#8211; score, commentary, updates &#038; stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Panama have been the brighter side&#8217;published at 00:57 BST 18 June<\/p>\n<p>00:57 BST 18 June<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">HT: Ghana 0-0 Panama<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/338c25c6-5fab-438e-b13e-7ad05b7f3f1d.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Efan Ekoku<br \/>Former Nigeria striker on BBC 5 Radio Live<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s been mainly Panama, they have been the brighter side and certainly the more determined in the middle of the park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cristian Martinez in particular has been all action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In terms of ball retention in the middle of the park, this is as ordinary a Ghana side as I have seen for many a year. Something has to change if they are going to threaten this Panama backline in the second half.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cristian Martinez\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9bda9ea8-81bd-4bc1-a456-ceeb6ffe70d1.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Panama have been the brighter side&#8217;published at 00:57 BST 18 June 00:57 BST 18 June HT: Ghana 0-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-710439","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\/710439","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=710439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}