{"id":5657,"date":"2026-07-01T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/times509.com\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:54:42","slug":"world-cup-2026-france-beats-sweden-3-0-with-a-mbappe-double-and-moves-on-to-the-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/world-cup-2026-france-beats-sweden-3-0-with-a-mbappe-double-and-moves-on-to-the-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: France beats Sweden 3-0 with a Mbapp\u00e9 double and moves on to the round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The French team outclassed Sweden 3-0 on Tuesday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford (New Jersey) in the Round of 16 of the World Cup, thanks in particular to a brace from their serial scorer Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, and will face Paraguay in the Round of 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The French team outclassed Sweden 3-0 on Tuesday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford (New Jersey) in the Round of 16 of the World Cup, thanks in particular to a brace from their prolific scorer Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, and will face Paraguay in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mbapp\u00e9, now with 6 goals in this World Cup, opened the scoring late in the first half (45th minute) for France. Bradley Barcola (53rd), after a brilliant pass from Michael Olise, doubled the lead, before Mbapp\u00e9 scored again (74th), once more set up by Olise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Les Bleus, finalists in the last World Cup, will face Paraguay in the quarterfinals on Saturday in Philadelphia, who had knocked out Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French team outclassed Sweden 3-0 on Tuesday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford (New Jersey) in the Round of 16 of the World Cup, thanks in particular to a&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5658,"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-5657","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\/5657","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=5657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5659,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions\/5659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5657"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}