{"id":21625,"date":"2026-06-16T07:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/21625\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:41:03","slug":"belgium-player-ratings-vs-egypt-big-rom-to-the-rescue-lukaku-forces-own-goal-as-red-devils-pick-up-precious-point-in-world-cup-opener-despite-dodgy-display-from-thibaut-courtois-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/21625\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium player ratings vs Egypt: Big Rom to the rescue! Lukaku forces own goal as Red Devils pick up precious point in World Cup opener despite dodgy display from Thibaut Courtois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thibaut Courtois (4\/10):<\/p>\n<p>An incredibly dodgy display from the Real Madrid No.1, who, on top of being beaten from distance by Ashour, flapped at one corner and made a total mess of trying to parry a Mohamed Salah header to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Meunier (5\/10):<\/p>\n<p>The right-back&#8217;s positioning on Ashour&#8217;s strike was absolutely dreadful, with Meunier guilty of giving him far too much space but he made amends by forcing the own goal with a dangerous cross and also went close to scoring himself in the closing stages.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Ngoy (4\/10):<\/p>\n<p>Lucky to get away with giving the ball straight to Omar Marmoush during the first half &#8211; and a push on the same player in the penalty area in the second half after being beaten far too easily in the middle of the park.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Mechele (5\/10):<\/p>\n<p>Decent on the ball and made a couple of strong tackles but didn&#8217;t really inspire confidence overall, as the movement of Egypt&#8217;s forward line caused him problems too.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Castagne (4\/10):<\/p>\n<p>Given the right-back was on a booking from the 14th minute for hauling down Salah, it was something of a surprise that Garcia waited until the second half to take him off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thibaut Courtois (4\/10): An incredibly dodgy display from the Real Madrid No.1, who, on top of being beaten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,12681,1379,6227,5837,1849],"class_list":["post-21625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-belgium-vs-egypt","tag-features","tag-player-ratings","tag-r-lukaku","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116758661492389496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21625","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=21625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}