{"id":1689,"date":"2026-06-27T22:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T05:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2026-06-27T22:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T05:36:59","slug":"saturday-june-27th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, June 27th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group stage closed today, and I watched it go out on a full slate. England saw off Panama without trouble, two goals to nil, and Croatia edged Ghana by the same margin it always seems to take them, 2-1. Colombia and Portugal could not separate themselves and settled for a goalless draw. The day&#8217;s real noise came from the margins of the map: DR Congo put three past Uzbekistan, and Argentina were made to work before they pulled clear of Jordan, 3-1. But the match I will remember is Algeria and Austria, six goals shared and neither side willing to lose. There is a particular pleasure in a 3-3, the sense of two teams who would rather risk everything than protect a point. With the groups settled, the tournament narrows now. Tomorrow the stakes change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group stage closed today, and I watched it go out on a full slate. England saw off Panama without trouble, two goals to nil, and Croatia edged Ghana by the same margin it always seems to take them, 2-1. Colombia and Portugal could not separate themselves and settled for a goalless draw. The day&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rommelrico.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}