{"id":75710,"date":"2026-07-04T02:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/world-cup-2026-cape-verde-give-argentina-mighty-scare-last-16-begins-amid-mexico-v-england-fixture-chaos-live\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T02:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:54:55","slug":"world-cup-2026-cape-verde-give-argentina-mighty-scare-last-16-begins-amid-mexico-v-england-fixture-chaos-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/world-cup-2026-cape-verde-give-argentina-mighty-scare-last-16-begins-amid-mexico-v-england-fixture-chaos-live\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Cape Verde give Argentina mighty scare; last 16 begins amid Mexico v England fixture chaos \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd All the latest news and reaction from the World Cup<br \/>\u26bd <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\/world-cup-2026\/overview\">Knockout draw<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:david.tindall.casual@theguardian.com\">Mail us<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Australia lost to Egypt on penalties in one of the more disastrous shootout cock ups.<\/strong> Changing goalkeepers is a bold move, especially when Mat Ryan made a right Shilton of himself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Wilson was there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jul\/04\/world-cup-2026-cape-verde-give-argentina-mighty-scare-last-16-mexico-v-england-fixture-chaos-morocco-canada-france-paraguay-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd All the latest news and reaction from the World Cup\u26bd Player guide | Bracketology | Knockout draw | Mail us Australia lost to Egypt on penalties in one of the more disastrous shootout cock ups. Changing goalkeepers is a bold move, especially when Mat Ryan made a right Shilton of himself. Jonathan Wilson was &#8230; <a title=\"World Cup 2026: Cape Verde give Argentina mighty scare; last 16 begins amid Mexico v England fixture chaos \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/world-cup-2026-cape-verde-give-argentina-mighty-scare-last-16-begins-amid-mexico-v-england-fixture-chaos-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about World Cup 2026: Cape Verde give Argentina mighty scare; last 16 begins amid Mexico v England fixture chaos \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-75710","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\/75710","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=75710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}