{"id":514478,"date":"2026-07-01T14:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=514478"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:09:31","slug":"kane-brace-saves-england-against-congo-for-2-1-comeback-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kane-brace-saves-england-against-congo-for-2-1-comeback-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Kane brace saves England against Congo for 2-1 comeback win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England had to complete a comeback after trailing 1-0 at halftime against DR Congo, but Harry Kane\u2019s brace in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half led to the victory for Thomas Tuchel\u2019s side, and they advanced to the 1\/8 finals of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The game started in the best way possible for the African country as they secured the lead in the 7<sup>th<\/sup> minute after Brian Cipenga received the ball inside the penalty area and, with a superb shot, opened the score.<\/p>\n<p>Congo was very close to even double its lead at the end of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, but Yoane Wissa missed a huge chance.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half, things continued to go Congo\u2019s way until the 75<sup>th<\/sup> minute when England\u2019s captain evened the result with a header.<\/p>\n<p>That wasn\u2019t all from Harry Kane as the Bayern Munich forward scored the winning goal in the clash in the 86<sup>th<\/sup> minute when he received the ball and, with an amazing shot into the top right corner, made the result 2-1 for his nation.<\/p>\n<p>England will face Mexico in the 1\/8 finals, as the match will be held in the Mexican capital.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Harry Kane gets the job done for England! \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f\ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Tuchel&#39;s side set up a round of 16 tie with Mexico \ud83c\udd9a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SEKiquStX0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SEKiquStX0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCSport\/status\/2072380746480906745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England had to complete a comeback after trailing 1-0 at halftime against DR Congo, but Harry Kane\u2019s brace in the 2nd half led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":514479,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[27135,16877,16724],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[27136,18341,21743],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Three Lions advanced to the 1\/8 finals of the World Cup.","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\/514478"}],"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=514478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/514478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514480,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/514478\/revisions\/514480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514478"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=514478"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=514478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}