{"id":24958,"date":"2026-06-17T07:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=24958"},"modified":"2026-06-17T07:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:25:54","slug":"fifa-world-cup-france-3-1-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/06\/17\/fifa-world-cup-france-3-1-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup: France 3-1 Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">Kylian Mbappe netted a brace leading Les Bleus to an exciting opening despite a dangerous Senegal side wasting clear-cut opportunities that could have won them the match in the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The French captain\u2019s two goals prevented a repeat of the historic 2002 upset by the West Africans\u2014which remains France\u2019s sole opening-match loss across their last eight World Cup appearances\u2014and rewarded a vastly improved second-half display from the two-time champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Senegal had initially looked the more threatening side in New York New Jersey. Pape Thiaw\u2019s squad came agonisingly close when Nicolas Jackson\u2019s shot beat Mike Maignan, only to bounce unluckily off the woodwork and the keeper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Jackson later had a goal disallowed for offside, while Ismaila Sarr squandered another promising opportunity by firing over the bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylian Mbappe netted a brace leading Les Bleus to an exciting opening despite a dangerous Senegal side wasting clear-cut opportunities that could have won them the match in the first half. The French captain\u2019s two goals prevented a repeat of the historic 2002 upset by the West Africans\u2014which remains France\u2019s sole opening-match loss across their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24962,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24958\/revisions\/24962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}