{"id":21533,"date":"2026-06-16T01:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/21533\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T01:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:12:25","slug":"bangkok-post-egypt-hold-belgium-to-1-1-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/21533\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok Post &#8211; Egypt hold Belgium to 1-1 draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUBLISHED : 16 Jun 2026 at 04:45<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c1_3271530_800.jpg\"   alt=\"Belgium's Romelu Lukaku celebrates their first goal, an own goal scored by Egypt's Mohamed Hany. REUTERS\" class=\"img-fluid\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBelgium&#8217;s Romelu Lukaku celebrates their first goal, an own goal scored by Egypt&#8217;s Mohamed Hany. REUTERS\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SEATTLE: Egypt&#8217;s \u2060hopes of \u200ba first-ever World \u200bCup win \u200cwere dashed by an own goal from defender Mohamed Hany in a 1-1 draw \u200bwith \u2060Belgium in their Group G opener on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt \u200ctook the lead in the 19th minute through a powerful strike \u2060from outside the box by midfielder Emam Ashour, his first international goal.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium pressed for an equaliser \u200bin the second half before the introduction of \u200bRomelu \u200cLukaku in the 66th minute. A little more \u200bthan \u206020 seconds later, Hany diverted a cross \u2060into his own net under pressure from the big striker.<\/p>\n<p>The other \u2060two teams in Group \u200bG, Iran and New Zealand, meet in Los Angeles later on \u200cMonday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUBLISHED : 16 Jun 2026 at 04:45 Belgium&#8217;s Romelu Lukaku celebrates their first goal, an own goal scored&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,5507,12670,13293,13318,13317,10451,506,5400],"class_list":["post-21533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-belgium-national-football-team","tag-egypt-national-football-team","tag-emam-ashour","tag-fifa-international-friendly","tag-football-match-results","tag-group-g","tag-international-football","tag-romelu-lukaku"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116757131844127731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533","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=21533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}