{"id":515148,"date":"2026-07-18T19:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=515148"},"modified":"2026-07-18T19:06:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:06:58","slug":"england-secures-world-cup-bronze-after-crazy-6-4-win-vs-france","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/england-secures-world-cup-bronze-after-crazy-6-4-win-vs-france\/","title":{"rendered":"England secures World Cup bronze after crazy 6-4 win vs. France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England defeated France 6-4 to win the bronze medal in the World Cup, as the Three Lions had a 4-0 lead at halftime, but were very close to allowing their opponent to tie the result, but in the end, triumphed.<\/p>\n<p>In a very crazy 1<sup>st<\/sup> 45 minutes, England totally dominated and scored 4 times. The opening goal in the match came in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> minute as the goal was scored by Declan Rice, while Ezri Konsa doubled the lead in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>Bukayo Saka scored twice in the last 10 minutes of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half to make his nation\u2019s lead very comfortable before the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half.<\/p>\n<p>However, France show different face after the break and scored 2 goals early as Kylian Mbappe scored in the 48<sup>th<\/sup> minute and assisted Bradley Barcola 6 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Kylian Mbappe, with his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> goal in the match make France trail only a single goal, and they had 2 fantastic chances to tie the result, but Michael Olise missed them both.<\/p>\n<p>That led to a counterattack in which Thomas Tuchel\u2019s side won a penalty, and with Harry Kane on the bench, Bukayo Saka converted it for 5-3 in the 87<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>That wasn\u2019t all, as Dembele scored in the extra time for 5-4, but in the last attack in the match, Jude Bellingham scored for the final 6-4 and England won the bronze in the World Cup for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in their history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What an extraordinary game \ud83d\ude31<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FIFAWorldCup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@FIFAWorldCup<\/a> campaign ends with a 6-4 win over France \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dh9cKbR1Xg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Dh9cKbR1Xg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; England (@England) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/England\/status\/2078616550009893047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 18, 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 defeated France 6-4 to win the bronze medal in the World Cup, as the Three Lions had a 4-0 lead at halftime, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":515149,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16877,17142],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18341,17862],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Three Lions finished 3rd in 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\/515148"}],"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=515148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/515148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515150,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/515148\/revisions\/515150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515148"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=515148"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=515148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}