{"id":49686,"date":"2026-06-17T06:45:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49686"},"modified":"2026-06-17T06:45:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:00:03","slug":"mbappe-brace-fires-france-to-winning-start-at-fifa-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/mbappe-brace-fires-france-to-winning-start-at-fifa-world-cup-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbapp\u00e9 brace fires France to winning start at FIFA World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, June 17:<\/strong>\u00a0Star forward Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 scored twice as France began their FIFA World Cup 2026 campaign with a convincing victory over Senegal on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>France defeated Senegal 3-1 at New York Stadium, with Mbapp\u00e9 netting a brace and Bradley Barcola adding the other goal. Ibrahima Mbaye scored Senegal\u2019s lone goal of the match.<\/p>\n<p>After a tightly contested first half, Mbapp\u00e9 broke the deadlock in the 66th minute, giving France a deserved lead. Barcola then doubled the advantage in the 82nd minute, putting the 2018 world champions firmly in control.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal pulled one back in second-half stoppage time when Ibrahima Mbaye found the net, reducing the deficit to 2-1 and briefly raising hopes of a late comeback.<\/p>\n<p>However, France responded immediately. Just a minute later, Mbapp\u00e9 struck again to complete his brace and restore the two-goal cushion, sealing a 3-1 victory for Les Bleus.<\/p>\n<p>The win gives France three valuable points and a strong start to their FIFA World Cup 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, June 17:\u00a0Star forward Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 scored twice as France began their FIFA World Cup 2026 campaign with a convincing victory over Senegal on Tuesday night. France defeated Senegal 3-1 at New York Stadium, with Mbapp\u00e9 netting a brace and Bradley Barcola adding the other goal. Ibrahima Mbaye scored Senegal\u2019s lone goal of the match. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49688,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49686\/revisions\/49688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}