{"id":75446,"date":"2026-06-27T17:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/dr-congo-v-uzbekistan-world-cup-2026-live\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T22:55:35","slug":"dr-congo-v-uzbekistan-world-cup-2026-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/dr-congo-v-uzbekistan-world-cup-2026-live\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo v Uzbekistan: World Cup 2026 \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f Kick-off time: 7.30pm EDT\/12.30am BST\/9.30am AEST<br \/>\u26bd\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/24\/world-cup-groups-permutations-round-of-32-usa-mexico-canada\">Third-place table<\/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\/world-cup-2026\/table\">Group tables<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:bryan.graham@theguardian.com\">Mail Bryan<\/a><br \/>\u26bd\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jun\/27\/colombia-v-portugal-world-cup-2026-live\">Colombia v Portugal \u2013 live updates also in Group K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DR Congo switch to a more attacking setup for their must-win finale, bringing in Brian Cipenga as Steve Kapuadi drops out. Uzbekistan make four changes after their 5-0 defeat to Portugal, with Khojiakbar Alijonov, Jakhongir Urozov, Akmal Mozgovoy and Dostonbek Khamdamov all coming into the starting XI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DR Congo (4-4-2)<\/strong> M\u2019Pasi-Nzau; Wan-Bissaka, Mbemba (c), Tuanzebe, Masuaku; Moutoussamy, Sadiki, Mbuku, Cipenga; Wissa, Bakambu<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jun\/27\/dr-congo-v-uzbekistan-world-cup-2026-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd\ufe0f Kick-off time: 7.30pm EDT\/12.30am BST\/9.30am AEST\u26bd\ufe0f Third-place table | Player guide | Group tables | Mail Bryan\u26bd\ufe0f Colombia v Portugal \u2013 live updates also in Group K DR Congo switch to a more attacking setup for their must-win finale, bringing in Brian Cipenga as Steve Kapuadi drops out. Uzbekistan make four changes after their &#8230; <a title=\"DR Congo v Uzbekistan: World Cup 2026 \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/dr-congo-v-uzbekistan-world-cup-2026-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about DR Congo v Uzbekistan: 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-75446","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\/75446","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=75446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}