{"id":76099,"date":"2026-07-14T12:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/france-v-spain-world-cup-2026-semi-final-live\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:54:54","slug":"france-v-spain-world-cup-2026-semi-final-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/france-v-spain-world-cup-2026-semi-final-live\/","title":{"rendered":"France v Spain: World Cup 2026 semi-final \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd Kick-off time: 2pm local\/3pm EST\/8pm BST\/5am AEST<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\/golden-boot-world-cup-2026-top-goalscorers-winner\">Golden Boot<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2022\/nov\/14\/football-daily-email-sign-up\">Football Daily<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:scott.murray.casual@guardian.co.uk\">Mail Scott<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Spain are unchanged following their victory over Belgium.<\/strong> Mikel Merino, match-winning supersub in both of the previous two rounds, once again has to make do with a seat on the bench, while Fabian Ruiz gets the nod ahead of Pedri in midfield.<\/p>\n<p><strong>France make two changes to the team that started the win over Morocco.<\/strong> Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni returns from injury to replace Manu Kon\u00e9 in midfield, while Bradley Barcola comes in for D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 on the left flank.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jul\/14\/france-v-spain-world-cup-2026-semi-final-live\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd Kick-off time: 2pm local\/3pm EST\/8pm BST\/5am AEST\u26bd Player guide | Golden Boot | Football Daily | Mail Scott Spain are unchanged following their victory over Belgium. Mikel Merino, match-winning supersub in both of the previous two rounds, once again has to make do with a seat on the bench, while Fabian Ruiz gets the &#8230; <a title=\"France v Spain: World Cup 2026 semi-final \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/france-v-spain-world-cup-2026-semi-final-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about France v Spain: World Cup 2026 semi-final \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-76099","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\/76099","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=76099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}