{"id":295,"date":"2026-07-01T21:08:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:08:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:08:58","slug":"harry-kanes-heroics-secure-englands-world-cup-last-16-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Harry Kane\u2019s heroics secure England\u2019s World Cup last 16 berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/assets\/england-v-congo-dr-round-of-32-fifa-world-cup-2026-1-1024x713.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Harry Kane\u2019s heroics secure England\u2019s World Cup last 16 berth\" title=\"Harry Kane\u2019s heroics secure England\u2019s World Cup last 16 berth\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div id=\"penci-post-entry-inner\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"penci-post-countview-number-check\" style=\"display:none\">1<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harry Kane scored two second-half goals against DR Congo to help England reach the last 16 of the FIFA World Cup. Thanks to the Bayern Munich striker, who was named Man of the Match, the Three Lions managed to win after falling behind early on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The African nation had a dream start when, in the seventh minute of the game, Brian Cipenga gave the Leopards the lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The match was one-way traffic after that as England chased the game and DRC defended deep. It took 75 minutes for England to respond as Kane headed home from an Anthony Gordon cross to level matters. Then, in the 86th minute, he brilliantly hit the ball with power from inside the box to give Thomas Tuchel\u2019s side the winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat a crazy game, their keeper made some unbelievable saves in that first half,\u201d said Kane after the game. \u201cFrom an attacking point of view, it was probably our best game of the tournament so far. We\u2019re in the part of the tournament where you have to grind wins out, and that\u2019s what we did today,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\">GGFN<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brookbvb\">Brook Genene<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Harry Kane scored two second-half goals against DR Congo to help England reach the last 16 of the FIFA World Cup. Thanks to the Bayern Munich striker, who was named Man of the Match, the Three Lions managed to win after falling behind early on. The African nation had a dream start when, in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/assets\/england-v-congo-dr-round-of-32-fifa-world-cup-2026-1-1024x713.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[577,41,347,573,575,574,576,40],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-berth","tag-cup","tag-englands","tag-harry","tag-heroics","tag-kanes","tag-secure","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}