{"id":252557,"date":"2026-07-12T04:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/world-cup-2026-saturday-takeaways-jude-bellingham-shines-argentina-takes-advantage-of-swiss-flop\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T04:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:35:52","slug":"world-cup-2026-saturday-takeaways-jude-bellingham-shines-argentina-takes-advantage-of-swiss-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/world-cup-2026-saturday-takeaways-jude-bellingham-shines-argentina-takes-advantage-of-swiss-flop\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 Saturday takeaways: Jude Bellingham shines; Argentina takes advantage of Swiss flop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/soccer\/topics\/fifa_world_cup\/17265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a> semifinals are set.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, England and Argentina joined France and Spain in the final four with a pair of thrilling wins. Below are our takeaways as the action pauses for a breath before kicking back up with the first semifinal (France-Spain) on Tuesday in Dallas.<\/p>\n<h2>Jude Bellingham takes over<\/h2>\n<p>The rising Real Madrid star midfielder continued a phenomenal knockout stage effort, scoring England&#8217;s two goals in a 2-1 win over Norway to send the Three Lions to the semifinals for the fourth time in national team history and second time in the past three tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>Bellingham, 23, scored the equalizer during first-half stoppage time, firing a left-footed shot to the far corner past Norway goalkeeper Orjan Haskjold Nyland.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/soccer\/articles\/world_cup_2026_saturday_takeaways_jude_bellingham_shines_argentina_takes_advantage_of_swiss_flop\/s1_13132_44052912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 FIFA World Cup semifinals are set. On Saturday, England and Argentina joined France and Spain in the final four with a pair of thrilling wins. Below are our takeaways as the action pauses for a breath before kicking back up with the first semifinal (France-Spain) on Tuesday in Dallas. Jude Bellingham takes over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-252557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}