{"id":377735,"date":"2025-11-14T06:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/377735\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T06:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:43:15","slug":"internationals-hugo-ekitike-scores-first-senior-goal-as-france-qualify-for-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/377735\/","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\/us\/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 9 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 9 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 9 hours ago By Sam Williams Hugo Ekitike scored his first senior international goal as France&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":377736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[2367,25581,12730,25577,25573,25582,25584,25583,1836,25576,25575,25572,25580,10596,25578,221,62,25574,67,132,68,25579],"class_list":{"0":"post-377735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-firmino","10":"tag-homepage","11":"tag-klopp","12":"tag-lfc","13":"tag-lfc-news","14":"tag-lfctv","15":"tag-lfctv-go","16":"tag-liverpool-fc","17":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","18":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","19":"tag-liverpool-football-club","20":"tag-mane","21":"tag-reds","22":"tag-salah","23":"tag-soccer","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-the-reds","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115546699366988056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377735","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=377735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}