{"id":722337,"date":"2026-06-24T01:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722337\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T01:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:51:16","slug":"world-cup-2026-should-ghana-have-had-penalty-against-england-for-ezri-konsa-tackle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/722337\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Should Ghana have had penalty against England for Ezri Konsa tackle??"},"content":{"rendered":"

England fans were left frustrated as their side were held to a goalless draw against Ghana, but were Thomas Tuchel’s side fortunate not to have a penalty given against them?<\/p>\n

The incident in question happened late in Tuesday’s game<\/a> as Prince Adu charged into the box before Ezri Konsa came across and appeared to bring down the midfielder.<\/p>\n

No spot-kick was given – to the relief of England supporters, with replays showing Konsa had caught Adu on the knee and made no contact with the ball.<\/p>\n

The BBC pundits watching the game were largely in agreement that Konsa and England were fortunate not to have been punished.<\/p>\n

“I think that’s a penalty,” former Three Lions and Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney said on BBC One.<\/p>\n

“Konsa takes a huge risk. His feet are off the floor when he comes flying in and he gets the man, not the ball.<\/p>\n

“That could easily have been given in my view.”<\/p>\n

Fellow former England international and ex-Manchester City defender Micah Richards added: “England were chasing the game, they were trying to score the goal but you still need that protection behind you. <\/p>\n

“On another day, that could have been a penalty.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England fans were left frustrated as their side were held to a goalless draw against Ghana, but were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-722337","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\/722337","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=722337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}