{"id":213866,"date":"2026-06-15T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/world-cup-daily-sweden-top-group-f-after-netherlands-japan-draw-espn\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:04:26","slug":"world-cup-daily-sweden-top-group-f-after-netherlands-japan-draw-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/world-cup-daily-sweden-top-group-f-after-netherlands-japan-draw-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Daily: Sweden top Group F after Netherlands-Japan draw &#8211; ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 4 of the 2026 <a data-league-guid=\"34f478c4-cf9a-35da-abd5-33db021e09d2\" href=\"\/soccer\/worldcup\/\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> is in the books, with <a href=\"\/soccer\/team\/_\/id\/481\/germany\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a> and <a href=\"\/soccer\/team\/_\/id\/466\/sweden\" target=\"_blank\">Sweden<\/a> recording statement wins.<br \/>The first game saw four-time winners Germany run riot in a <a href=\"\/soccer\/report\/_\/gameId\/760422\" target=\"_blank\">7-1 win<\/a> over <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c9cfc85c-d9f1-e5a1-98e9-8c0b47a9c044\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=11678\">Cura\u00e7ao<\/a> in Houston. Then, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6236b2ae-6d80-4bff-5c4f-3573ac94bec8\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=449\">Netherlands<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2b08760f-e2eb-50c1-872e-2baa869daefa\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=627\">Japan<\/a> held each other in a highly entertaining <a href=\"\/soccer\/match\/_\/gameId\/760425\/japan-netherlands\" target=\"_blank\">2-2 draw<\/a>.<br \/><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6fcf839e-eb1a-be06-675f-a22ee120dcdb\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=4789\">Ivory Coast<\/a> then defeated <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4defd35b-125e-5760-bf29-7c02b787e68b\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=209\">Ecuador<\/a> <a href=\"\/soccer\/match\/_\/gameId\/760423\/ecuador-ivory-coast\" target=\"_blank\">1-0<\/a> in Philadelphia in the day&#8217;s third match, before <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"1d5c4799-84ee-83ef-14fd-19b310654768\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=466\">Sweden<\/a> fired five goals past a hapless <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"11090cca-6664-482e-ceb7-3b70b3297cc7\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=659\">Tunisia<\/a> in Mexico.<br \/>Relive all the features, news, video analysis and color from around the competition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipgFBVV95cUxQcWwzOVliVjd2aHdXaTdQNzBSaE9uMkVhazJCT3BjSlFwc0tTdFlYYWZaUjlqWHR0T25EU3lZQ0g4dW4wMW00cWlNdnk1aE1VbEZNMnJqaV9LTUE0RTNKLXQ0V2RLTXM2c05RWERTREw1bGpzZ1JqNktBcTNibHVtblk2RHJBVjB3QXh3RGVtZlc4QjUzNWhGRF9EOWQ4RDJraHNEclFB?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 4 of the 2026 FIFA World Cup is in the books, with Germany and Sweden recording statement wins.The first game saw four-time winners Germany run riot in a 7-1 win over Cura\u00e7ao in Houston. Then, Netherlands and Japan held each other in a highly entertaining 2-2 draw.Ivory Coast then defeated Ecuador 1-0 in Philadelphia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}