{"id":266220,"date":"2025-09-30T10:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266220\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:06:12","slug":"u20-world-cup-results-and-group-standings-after-the-first-matchday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266220\/","title":{"rendered":"U20 World Cup: Results and group standings after the first matchday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you need to know about the opening day of the U20 World Cup<\/p>\n<p>The opening day of the group stage of <a href=\"https:\/\/foot-africa.com\/en\/news\/world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">the U20 World Cup<\/a> wrapped up on Monday night with the matches in Groups E and F.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco pulled off a shock by defeating Spain (2-0). In fact, it was the only African victory, as the continent\u2019s three other representatives fell short.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/south-africa-39\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa<\/a>, and Nigeria were beaten by Japan (0-2), France (1-2), and Norway (0-1) respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The United States recorded a massive win over the tournament&#8217;s minnows, New Caledonia, with a resounding 9-1 scoreline.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the results and group standings after Matchday 1:<\/p>\n<p>Chile \u2013 New Zealand 2-1<\/p>\n<p>3- New Zealand 0 pts (-1)<\/p>\n<p>South Korea \u2013 Ukraine 1-2<\/p>\n<p>4- South Korea 0 pts (-1)<\/p>\n<p>United States \u2013 New Caledonia 9-1<\/p>\n<p>1- United States 3 pts (+8)<\/p>\n<p>4- New Caledonia 0 pts (-8)<\/p>\n<p>Colombia \u2013 Saudi Arabia 1-0<\/p>\n<p>3- Saudi Arabia 0 pts (-1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know about the opening day of the U20 World Cup The opening day of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":266221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-266220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115292693803350391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}