{"id":49915,"date":"2026-06-21T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49915"},"modified":"2026-06-21T06:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:45:18","slug":"netherlands-thrash-sweden-5-1-to-go-top-of-group-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/netherlands-thrash-sweden-5-1-to-go-top-of-group-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands thrash Sweden 5-1 to go top of Group F"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p data-start=\"55\" data-end=\"204\"><strong>Kathamandu, June 21:<\/strong> Netherlands produced a dominant display to secure a convincing 5-1 victory over Sweden in the FIFA World Cup 2026 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"206\" data-end=\"383\">At Houston Stadium, Brian Brobbey and Cody Gakpo both scored twice, while Crysencio Summerville added a late goal to complete the rout. Anthony Elanga scored Sweden\u2019s lone goal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"385\" data-end=\"532\">The Dutch took the lead early when Brobbey found the net in the fifth minute before doubling the advantage with his second goal in the 17th minute.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"534\" data-end=\"846\">Gakpo extended the lead shortly after halftime, scoring in the 47th minute, and added his second goal seven minutes later to make it 4-0. Elanga pulled one back for Sweden in the 59th minute, but Summerville capped off an impressive performance with a goal in the 89th minute to seal a comprehensive 5-1 victory.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"848\" data-end=\"978\">The win moves the Netherlands to the top of Group F with four points from two matches, while Sweden sits second with three points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathamandu, June 21: Netherlands produced a dominant display to secure a convincing 5-1 victory over Sweden in the FIFA World Cup 2026 on Saturday night. At Houston Stadium, Brian Brobbey and Cody Gakpo both scored twice, while Crysencio Summerville added a late goal to complete the rout. Anthony Elanga scored Sweden\u2019s lone goal. The Dutch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-49915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-news","tag-fifa-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49915"}],"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=49915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49918,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49915\/revisions\/49918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}