{"id":5181,"date":"2026-06-21T06:17:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=5181"},"modified":"2026-06-21T06:17:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:17:57","slug":"world-cup-roundup-germany-advances-netherlands-and-curacao-make-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=5181","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Roundup: Germany Advances; Netherlands And Cura\u00e7ao Make Statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>83.3 million \u2014 that&#8217;s the difference in population size between Saturday&#8217;s two biggest winners, Germany and Cura\u00e7ao. But just because they were the biggest winners didn&#8217;t mean they were the only ones with something to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Here is everything you might have missed on Day 10 of the 2026 FIFA World Cup:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><strong>Assist Of The Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:var(--color-text-primary);font-family:inherit;font-size:18px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.028em;line-height:1.11;margin:0;width:auto\">Midfielder<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"height:24px;margin:0 4px;object-fit:contain;vertical-align:middle;width:24px\" src=\"https:\/\/b.fssta.com\/uploads\/application\/countries\/flag-logos\/276.vresize.200.200.medium.0.png\" alt=\"Germany\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\">Germany<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>With Germany needing a goal in extra time, nothing was breaking through. Deniz Undav was in no man&#8217;s land with his back facing the goal and the Netherlands&#8217; defense fully set up \u2014 that was until Felix Nmecha made something out of nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Through a sea full of orange, the 25-year-old pinged a pass to Undav that had enough pace and power to zip past the Dutch defense. Undav took care of the rest with a clinical first touch before he turned and faced the goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><strong>Save Of The Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:var(--color-text-primary);font-family:inherit;font-size:18px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.028em;line-height:1.11;margin:0;width:auto\">Goalkeeper<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"height:24px;margin:0 4px;object-fit:contain;vertical-align:middle;width:24px\" src=\"https:\/\/b.fssta.com\/uploads\/application\/countries\/flag-logos\/531.vresize.200.200.medium.0.png\" alt=\"Curacao\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\">Cura\u00e7ao<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>There is one goalkeeper in the history of the FIFA World Cup that has recorded 15 saves in a 90-minute match; his name is Eloy Room, and he represents Cura\u00e7ao, the smallest nation to ever participate in the FIFA World Cup. What a day it was for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><strong>Goal Of The Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:var(--color-text-primary);font-family:inherit;font-size:18px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.028em;line-height:1.11;margin:0;width:auto\">Winger<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"height:24px;margin:0 4px;object-fit:contain;vertical-align:middle;width:24px\" src=\"https:\/\/b.fssta.com\/uploads\/application\/countries\/flag-logos\/528.vresize.200.200.medium.0.png\" alt=\"Netherlands\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\">Netherlands<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Cody Gakpo was able to get anything he wanted against Sweden, and nothing illustrated that more than the goal that secured his brace. With Sweden center back Gustaf Lagerbielke defending him one-on-one, Gakpo cut to his right and created just enough space to sneak the ball between goalkeeper Kristoffer Nordfeldt and the near post. Clinical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><strong>Moment Of The Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Cura\u00e7ao wasn&#8217;t supposed to enter its final group-stage match with anything to play for \u2014 not after losing to Germany 7-1 in its opener, and not with Ecuador next on its schedule. Two games later, Cura\u00e7ao are still in the mix thanks to the heroics of Eloy Room. Up next: Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY 83.3 million \u2014 that&#8217;s the difference in population size between Saturday&#8217;s two biggest winners, Germany and Cura\u00e7ao. But just because they were the biggest winners didn&#8217;t mean they were the only ones with something to celebrate. Here is everything you might have missed on Day 10 of the 2026 FIFA World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}