{"id":70627,"date":"2026-07-02T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=70627"},"modified":"2026-07-02T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:00:53","slug":"belgium-edge-senegal-3-2-after-extra-time-to-reach-fifa-world-cup-2026-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=70627","title":{"rendered":"Belgium Edge Senegal 3-2 After Extra Time to Reach FIFA World Cup 2026 Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium booked their place in the FIFA World Cup 2026 Round of 16 with a dramatic 3-2 extra-time victory over Senegal in a thrilling knockout clash.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal took the lead through Habib Diarra in the 24th minute before Isma\u00efla Sarr doubled the advantage in the 51st minute. Belgium staged a remarkable comeback late in the match, with Romelu Lukaku scoring in the 86th minute and Youri Tielemans equalising in the 89th minute to force extra time.<\/p>\n<p>With the match heading towards penalties, Tielemans converted a 120+5th-minute penalty to complete Belgium&#8217;s stunning turnaround and seal a memorable 3-2 win, sending the Red Devils into the next round of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Belgium vs Senegal | Full Highlights | Round of 32 | FIFA World Cup 2026 | tapmad | FIFA26\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-q5x18RqLY0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium booked their place in the FIFA World Cup 2026 Round of 16 with a dramatic 3-2 extra-time victory over Senegal in a thrilling knockout clash. Senegal took the lead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/?p=70627\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70629,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70627\/revisions\/70629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.jeeveypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}