{"id":50692,"date":"2026-07-05T06:38:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=50692"},"modified":"2026-07-05T06:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:53:45","slug":"france-and-morocco-advance-to-fifa-world-cup-2026-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/france-and-morocco-advance-to-fifa-world-cup-2026-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"France and Morocco advance to FIFA World Cup 2026 Quarter-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, July 7:<\/strong> France and Morocco have secured their places in the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup 2026 after impressive Round of 16 victories on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>France edged past Paraguay with a narrow 1-0 win at Philadelphia Stadium. The breakthrough came in the 70th minute when Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 calmly converted a penalty to score the match&#8217;s only goal.<\/p>\n<p>The first half ended goalless, with both sides creating limited opportunities. Mbapp\u00e9&#8217;s decisive strike proved enough to send France into the last eight. The goal was his seventh of the tournament, further strengthening his position among the competition&#8217;s top scorers.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, France progressed to the quarter-finals, while Paraguay&#8217;s World Cup journey came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>France will now face Morocco in a highly anticipated quarter-final clash.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Morocco booked their place in the last eight with a dominant 3-0 victory over co-hosts Canada at Houston Stadium. Azzedine Ounahi starred with a brace, while Soufiane Rahimi added another goal to seal a convincing win and Morocco&#8217;s place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, July 7: France and Morocco have secured their places in the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup 2026 after impressive Round of 16 victories on Sunday morning. France edged past Paraguay with a narrow 1-0 win at Philadelphia Stadium. The breakthrough came in the 70th minute when Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 calmly converted a penalty to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50692"}],"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=50692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50695,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50692\/revisions\/50695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}