{"id":75261,"date":"2026-06-23T19:55:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/colombia-v-dr-congo-world-cup-2026-live\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:55:33","slug":"colombia-v-dr-congo-world-cup-2026-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/colombia-v-dr-congo-world-cup-2026-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia v DR Congo: World Cup 2026 \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f Kick-off time: 8pm local\/12pm AEST\/3am BST\/10pm EDT<br \/>\u26bd\ufe0f <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> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/golden-boot-world-cup-2026-top-goalscorers-winner\">Golden Boot<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:jo.khan@theguardian.com\">Mail Jo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>After filing to find the back of the net in Portugal\u2019s opening game, Ronaldo\u2019s relief was palpable in Houston<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There have long been question marks over his continued ability to lead Portugal on this stage, but after the final whistle he shouted into a television camera: \u201cI\u2019m back, I\u2019m back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Golden oldies fighting for the golden boot? Let us not get ahead of ourselves. But it will do Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s ego no harm that he is off the mark for this summer, particularly given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/22\/argentina-austria-world-cup-group-j-match-report\">Lionel Messi\u2019s voracious appetite<\/a> to keep long-burning fires ablaze. Nor will it pass unnoticed that he has broken a record of his own. In breaching Uzbekistan twice during the opening period of what quickly became a leisurely non-contest, Ronaldo became the first player to score in six editions of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jun\/24\/fifa-world-cup-2026-live-colombia-v-dr-congo-updates-col-vs-cod-group-k-match-score-latest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f Kick-off time: 8pm local\/12pm AEST\/3am BST\/10pm EDT\u26bd\ufe0f Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Mail Jo After filing to find the back of the net in Portugal\u2019s opening game, Ronaldo\u2019s relief was palpable in Houston. There have long been question marks over his continued ability to lead Portugal on this stage, but after &#8230; <a title=\"Colombia v DR Congo: World Cup 2026 \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/colombia-v-dr-congo-world-cup-2026-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Colombia v DR Congo: 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-75261","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\/75261","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=75261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}