{"id":394693,"date":"2022-11-21T09:53:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394693"},"modified":"2022-11-21T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T16:06:15","slug":"dominant-england-demolish-iran-in-emphatic-world-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/dominant-england-demolish-iran-in-emphatic-world-cup-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominant England demolish Iran in emphatic World Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"t-content__chapo\">England thrashed Iran 6-2 on Monday in an exciting World Cup opener thanks to two goals from Bukayo Saka and strikes by Jude Bellingham and Raheem Sterling, before substitutes Marcus Rashford and Jack Grealish rounded off the rout.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A strong start to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/England?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@England<\/a>! \ud83d\udc4a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Qatar2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Qatar2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q7uW61H7ER\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/q7uW61H7ER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1594715879664656384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Manchester United center back Harry Maguire almost gave England the lead after heading against the crossbar, before teenager Bellingham steered in a header from a precise Luke Shaw cross in the 35th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Eight minutes later, England went 2-0 ahead when Maguire climbed highest from a corner to head down for Saka to put the ball into the net.<\/p>\n<p>Sterling flicked in a cross by captain Harry Kane in first-half stoppage time before Saka bamboozled Iran&#8217;s defence and made it 4-0 in the 62nd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Mehdi Taremi reduced the deficit three minutes later but Rashford made it 5-1 and Grealish, also coming off the bench, scored England&#8217;s sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Taremi scored a consolation second goal for\u00a0Iran\u00a0from the penalty spot in the dying seconds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An impressive <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ENG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ENG<\/a> display \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adidasfootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@adidasfootball<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1594711599717179393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England thrashed Iran 6-2 on Monday in an exciting World Cup opener thanks to two goals from Bukayo Saka and strikes by Jude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394694,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16881,16882,16883],"news_category":[14235,136,14236,16671,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Bukayo Saka struck twice for Gareth Southgate's side in a dominant display\u00a0","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394693"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394693"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}