{"id":74918,"date":"2026-06-15T16:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/saudi-arabia-v-uruguay-world-cup-2026-live\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:55:39","slug":"saudi-arabia-v-uruguay-world-cup-2026-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/saudi-arabia-v-uruguay-world-cup-2026-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia v Uruguay: World Cup 2026 \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f World Cup kick-off: 6pm EDT\/11pm BST\/8am AEST<br \/>\u26bd\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/15\/spain-cape-verde-world-cup-2026-group-h-match-report\">Spain 0-0 Cape Verde<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/world-cup-2026-complete-player-guide\">Player guide<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/bracketology-predict-a-path-to-world-cup-victory\">Bracketology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where to start? Perhaps towards the end of April when Herv\u00e9 Renard was fired as head coach and then replaced by Georgios Donis. The Greek winger, formerly of Blackburn, picked his squad without overseeing a game.<\/p>\n<p>Renard was in charge from 2019 to 2023 and oversaw the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2022\/nov\/22\/argentina-saudi-arabia-world-cup-group-c-match-report\">win against Argentina<\/a> at the Qatar World Cup, but broke football\u2019s \u201cnever go back\u201d rule in October 2024, succeeding his successor Roberto Mancini, who never looked like the right fit. The Frenchman\u2019s second spell was underwhelming and without the tournament\u2019s expansion the Green Falcons would not have made it, and only scraped through as it was.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jun\/15\/saudi-arabia-v-uruguay-world-cup-2026-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f World Cup kick-off: 6pm EDT\/11pm BST\/8am AEST\u26bd\ufe0f Spain 0-0 Cape Verde | Player guide | Bracketology Where to start? Perhaps towards the end of April when Herv\u00e9 Renard was fired as head coach and then replaced by Georgios Donis. The Greek winger, formerly of Blackburn, picked his squad without overseeing a game. Renard was &#8230; <a title=\"Saudi Arabia v Uruguay: World Cup 2026 \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/saudi-arabia-v-uruguay-world-cup-2026-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Saudi Arabia v Uruguay: World Cup 2026 \u2013 live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}