{"id":489148,"date":"2025-10-10T19:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/489148\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:54:16","slug":"germany-lead-luxembourg-france-take-on-azerbaijan-in-wcq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/489148\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany lead Luxembourg; France take on Azerbaijan in WCQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second half action has kicked off in World Cup qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Moments before the half-time whistle, the hosts finally find a breakthrough! Of course, it&#8217;s Kylian Mbappe with the strike!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/real-madrid-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Madrid<\/a> star skips through the <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/azerbaijan-309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azerbaijan<\/a> defence, does a quick one-two with Hugo Ekitike and then unleashes his effort into the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>A move that started and finished with Mbappe!<\/p>\n<p>Despite 80% possession and nine attempts on goal, not one of Belgium&#8217;s efforts have hit the target.<\/p>\n<p>Over 30 minutes played and still goalless in Ghent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Belgium 0-0 North Macedonia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More drama as <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/luxembourg-306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luxembourg<\/a> are reduced to 10 men! <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/germany-96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germany<\/a> are awarded a penalty and Joshua Kimmich calmly converts. The hosts are cruising!<\/p>\n<p>France are still looking for a breakthrough against <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/azerbaijan-309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azerbaijan<\/a>. They&#8217;ve had two attempts on target so far, but are yet to find the back of the net. Still goalless!<\/p>\n<p>A first senior international goal for David Raum!<\/p>\n<p>David Raum with the goal for the hosts with 12 minutes gone! A fantastic free-kick!<\/p>\n<p>Belgium winger\u00a0Alexis Saelemaekers takes an early booking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Belgium 0-0 North Macedonia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hold up! Some confusion over who got the final touch, whether it was Gnabry or Woltemade. But it doesn&#8217;t matter as VAR has intervened and the goal has been ruled out for a handball.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken less than five minutes and Serge Gnabry has already fired the hosts in front against <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/luxembourg-306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luxembourg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s games are underway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The team news from Belgium and North Macedonia&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Join us throughout the evening for live text coverage of tonight&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second half action has kicked off in World Cup qualifying. Moments before the half-time whistle, the hosts finally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-489148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115351628211004782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}