{"id":484815,"date":"2024-07-01T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T17:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484815"},"modified":"2024-07-01T13:59:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T17:59:51","slug":"france-eliminates-belgium-after-late-goal-by-kolo-muani","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/france-eliminates-belgium-after-late-goal-by-kolo-muani\/","title":{"rendered":"France eliminates Belgium after late goal by Kolo Muani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France won against Belgium 1-0 at Merkur Spiel-Arena in D\u00fcsseldorf and advanced to the \u00bc finals of the Euro 2024 where they will face either Portugal or Slovenia as the substitute Randal Kolo Muani became the hero that send them to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>The show that fans expected when they learned that France would play against Belgium in the round of 16 of the Euro 2024 didn\u2019t happen, as the match just went by without any clear chances in front of the goal from either team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">France are through to the quarter-finals! \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#EURO2024<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FRABEL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FRABEL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dxhOl5AoCY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dxhOl5AoCY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UEFA EURO 2024 (@EURO2024) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EURO2024\/status\/1807834569242300452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We definitely can\u2019t remember anything significant in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half as the same can be sad for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half also as both nations preferred not to risk at all and France tried to score with shots outside the penalty area but they\u2019re show were not on target.<\/p>\n<p>The best chance came in the 82<sup>nd<\/sup> minute as Manchester City superstar Kevin De Bruyne shot outside the penalty area but Mike Maignan kept the result unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters had to wait until the 85<sup>th<\/sup> minute to see a goal as Randal Kolo Muani who replaced Marcus Thuram in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half scored after his shot was deflected and left no chance to the Red Devils goalkeeper to saved it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">France secure their place in the last eight \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7\ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#EURO2024<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FRABEL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FRABEL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dh7mS3XDVM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dh7mS3XDVM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UEFA EURO 2024 (@EURO2024) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EURO2024\/status\/1807835531679822150?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France won against Belgium 1-0 at Merkur Spiel-Arena in D\u00fcsseldorf and advanced to the \u00bc finals of the Euro 2024 where they will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484816,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17338,17082,17142],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18001,18422,17862],"acf":{"announce":"The French team advanced to the \u00bd finals after the tough victory.","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\/484815"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484818,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484815\/revisions\/484818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484815"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484815"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}