{"id":54856,"date":"2026-07-14T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/54856\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:38:09","slug":"lacroix-mateta-eye-world-cup-final-vs-spain-rcp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/54856\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacroix, Mateta Eye World Cup Final Vs Spain | RCP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crystal Palace pair Maxence Lacroix and Jean-Philippe Mateta are one win away from a World Cup final after being named in France\u2019s squad for Tuesday\u2019s semi-final against Spain.<\/p>\n

According to a fresh update from the club\u2019s official site, cpfc.co.uk, both players have been included in Didier Deschamps\u2019 squad for the last-four tie at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, with kick-off at 8pm UK time (3pm ET, 2pm local). France reached the semi-final unbeaten<\/a>, beating Morocco 2-0 in the quarter-final, and a win over Spain would send Les Bleus into Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n

Maxence Lacroix\u2019s Stock Rises Amid Chelsea Interest<\/p>\n

The centre-back\u2019s performances on the international stage arrive with added significance back at Selhurst Park, where Chelsea\u2019s interest in a summer move<\/a> has continued to build. Palace have set a valuation comfortably above the figures currently being discussed in west London, and any deal is expected to hinge on the Eagles first securing a replacement.<\/p>\n

Mateta, meanwhile, arrives at the semi-final having already tasted a major final with France\u2019s Olympic squad in Paris two summers ago, when he started every match of the run to gold. A big performance for either man in Texas would only sharpen the debate at Selhurst Park over how quickly Pierre Sage can get his first-choice pair back into pre-season training once the World Cup dust settles.<\/p>\n

Palace supporters will be watching two of their own take another step towards the biggest stage in world football, live from 8pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crystal Palace pair Maxence Lacroix and Jean-Philippe Mateta are one win away from a World Cup final after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5005,23105,556,23106,20425,17],"class_list":["post-54856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-crystal-palace-at-world-cup","tag-france","tag-jean-philippe-mateta","tag-maxence-lacroix","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}