{"id":9418,"date":"2026-06-25T22:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/ecuador-beat-germany-to-book-place-in-world-cup-2026-knockouts-after-plata-winning-goal-live-updates\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T22:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:24:46","slug":"ecuador-beat-germany-to-book-place-in-world-cup-2026-knockouts-after-plata-winning-goal-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/ecuador-beat-germany-to-book-place-in-world-cup-2026-knockouts-after-plata-winning-goal-live-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador beat Germany to book place in World Cup 2026 knockouts after Plata winning goal: Live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s not what I had in mind when I said Ecuador<\/strong> were dark horses pre-tournament, but that will do for Sebastian Beccacece.<\/p>\n

Ecuador back into the knockout rounds, emulating their 2006 run. A whole lot of energy and passion went into that, but tactical nous too.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason they did so well in qualifying and could upset a group winner in the round of 32 \u2014 they do better against the bigger teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not what I had in mind when I said Ecuador were dark horses pre-tournament, but that will do for Sebastian Beccacece. Ecuador back into the knockout rounds, emulating their 2006 run. A whole lot of energy and passion went into that, but tactical nous too. There\u2019s a reason they did so well in qualifying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6002,4335,1281,8818,4577,8821,8819,263,5192,8820,4082,7147,1217],"class_list":{"0":"post-9418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upcoming-games","8":"tag-beat","9":"tag-book","10":"tag-cup","11":"tag-ecuador","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-goal","14":"tag-knockouts","15":"tag-live","16":"tag-place","17":"tag-plata","18":"tag-updates","19":"tag-winning","20":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}