{"id":144127,"date":"2026-06-15T23:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/egypt-denied-historic-world-cup-win-in-draw-with-belgium\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T23:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:02:45","slug":"egypt-denied-historic-world-cup-win-in-draw-with-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/egypt-denied-historic-world-cup-win-in-draw-with-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt denied historic world cup win in draw with Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A second-half own goal denied Egypt a first ever World Cup win as Belgium rescued a point from their Group G opener in Seattle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Pharaohs took the lead in the 21st minute through Al Ahly midfielder Emam Ashour, who thundered a 20-yard strike into the bottom corner past Thibaut Courtois.<\/p>\n<p>But Thomas Meunier\u2019s low cross was turned into his own net by Egypt defender Mohamed Hany in the 66th minute, under pressure from substitute Romelu Lukaku.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt were backed by a passionate support base on the USA\u2019s west coast as they hunted their first World Cup win in eight games, having made their tournament debut back in 1934.<\/p>\n<p>Instead the seven-time African champions spent the final moments holding on and managed to avoid defeat at a World Cup for only the third time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/egypt-denied-historic-world-cup-win-in-draw-with-belgium\/\">Egypt denied historic world cup win in draw with Belgium<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second-half own goal denied Egypt a first ever World Cup win as Belgium rescued a point from their Group G opener in Seattle. The Pharaohs took the lead in the 21st minute through Al Ahly midfielder Emam Ashour, who thundered a 20-yard strike into the bottom corner past Thibaut Courtois. But Thomas Meunier\u2019s low [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}