{"id":568833,"date":"2025-11-14T01:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/568833\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:45:42","slug":"internationals-hugo-ekitike-scores-first-senior-goal-as-france-qualify-for-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/568833\/","title":{"rendered":"Internationals: Hugo Ekitike scores first senior goal as France qualify for the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Internationals: Hugo Ekitike scores first senior goal as France qualify for the World Cup\" title=\"Internationals: Hugo Ekitike scores first senior goal as France qualify for the World Cup\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/hugo-ekitike-france-13112025_78a52a89ecdcbe12bf24587019158859.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/>Published 4 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Sam Williams<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-hg7nzy\">Hugo Ekitike scored his first senior international goal as France confirmed their qualification for the World Cup on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Liverpool forward came off the bench and rounded off Les Bleus\u2019 4-0 win over Ukraine with a driving run and smart finish late on. Victory at Parc des Princes \u2013 where<strong> Ibrahima Konate<\/strong> was an unused substitute \u2013 secured top spot in qualifying Group B for France.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,<strong> Dominik Szoboszlai<\/strong> assisted Hungary\u2019s goal in their crucial 1-0 away victory over Armenia. <\/p>\n<p>Szoboszlai, captaining a team also including <strong>Milos Kerkez<\/strong>, delivered a superb cross for Barnabas Varga to head home the winner.  <\/p>\n<p>Hungary now sit two points behind Group F leaders Portugal ahead of their final qualifier, against the Republic of Ireland in Budapest, on Sunday. Ireland, who beat Portugal 2-0 in Dublin on Thursday, are one point adrift of Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>At U21 level, <strong>Kieran Morrison<\/strong> played 75 minutes of Northern Ireland\u2019s 1-0 win versus Latvia in European Championship qualifying, while <strong>Armin Pecsi<\/strong> started as Hungary beat Faroe Islands 3-0 in a friendly. <\/p>\n<p>Published 4 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 4 hours ago By Sam Williams Hugo Ekitike scored his first senior international goal as France&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,12,1144,1042,1047,712,1043,16,15,1048,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-568833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool-fc","20":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","22":"tag-liverpool-football-club","23":"tag-mane","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-northern-ireland","26":"tag-reds","27":"tag-salah","28":"tag-scotland","29":"tag-the-reds","30":"tag-uk","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-van-dijk","33":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115545528005505170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568833","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=568833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}