{"id":18823,"date":"2026-06-03T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/18823\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:52:14","slug":"stanisic-and-croatia-lose-to-belgium-in-world-cup-warm-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/18823\/","title":{"rendered":"Stani\u0161i\u0107 and Croatia lose to Belgium in World Cup warm-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Croatian national team, featuring FC Bayern defender <a href=\"https:\/\/fcbayern.com\/en\/teams\/first-team\/josip-stani%C5%A1i%C4%87\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Josip Stani\u0161i\u0107,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Josip Stani\u0161i\u0107,&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Josip Stani\u0161i\u0107,<\/a> suffered a defeat against Belgium on Tuesday evening in a World Cup warm-up, going down\u00a02-0 in Rijeka. <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/players\/381036\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Youri Tielemans;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Youri Tielemans&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Youri Tielemans<\/a> put Belgium ahead in the 38th minute before\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/players\/374597\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Romelu Lukaku;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Romelu Lukaku&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Romelu Lukaku<\/a> (90&#8217;+6) doubled the lead just as the final whistle blew. Stani\u0161i\u0107 started the game and was substituted in the 58th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Croatia play another friendly against Slovenia on 7 June, and in their opening match of the World Cup on 17 June, Stani\u0161i\u0107 and his national team will face FCB teammate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fcbayern.com\/en\/teams\/first-team\/harry-kane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Harry Kane;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Harry Kane&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Harry Kane<\/a>\u00a0and <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/teams\/england\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:England;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;England&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find out here which FC Bayern players are in action at the World Cup:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fcbayern.com\/en\/news\/2026\/05\/world-cup-2026-these-fc-bayern-players-have-been-called-up\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Which Bayern players have been selected for the World Cup?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Which Bayern players have been selected for the World Cup?&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Which Bayern players have been selected for the World Cup?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Croatian national team, featuring FC Bayern defender Josip Stani\u0161i\u0107, suffered a defeat against Belgium on Tuesday evening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,316,12167,1859,12169,12168,5400,1849,5404],"class_list":["post-18823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-croatia","tag-croatian-national-team","tag-england","tag-harry-kane","tag-josip-stanisic","tag-romelu-lukaku","tag-world-cup","tag-youri-tielemans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116685566617654169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}