{"id":5615,"date":"2026-06-30T12:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/times509.com\/?p=5615"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:42:33","slug":"world-cup-2026-paraguay-creates-a-shock-by-knocking-out-germany-and-awaits-france-or-sweden-in-the-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/world-cup-2026-paraguay-creates-a-shock-by-knocking-out-germany-and-awaits-france-or-sweden-in-the-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Paraguay creates a shock by knocking out Germany and awaits France or Sweden in the round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Paraguay created the first big shock of the 2026 World Cup by knocking out Germany on penalties (1-1, 4-3 on penalties) in the round of 16 on Monday in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and will face either France or Sweden in the quarterfinals next Saturday in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Paraguay created the first big shock of the 2026 World Cup by knocking Germany out on penalties (1-1, 4-3 on penalties) in the round of 16 on Monday in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and will face either France or Sweden in the quarterfinals next Saturday in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Sixteen years after their last participation, the South Americans prevailed thanks to a goal from their sixth penalty taker, Jos\u00e9 Canale. Strasbourg&#8217;s Julio Enciso (42nd minute) had opened the scoring in the first half before Kai Havertz equalized for Germany in the 54th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">For Germany, World Cups are starting to look familiar: the four-time world champions had suffered two disappointing group stage eliminations in 2018 in Russia and 2022 in Qatar. Although they made it past the first round this time, their elimination against the world\u2019s 34th-ranked team is another major disappointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paraguay created the first big shock of the 2026 World Cup by knocking out Germany on penalties (1-1, 4-3 on penalties) in the round of 16 on Monday in Foxborough,&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow67bgCw:productID":"","_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_aifi_custom_prompt":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_ayudawp_aiss_exclude":false,"_ayudawp_aiss_summary":"","_ayudawp_aiss_summary_provider":"","_ayudawp_aiss_summary_hash":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-5615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5617,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions\/5617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}