{"id":1892637,"date":"2026-07-18T17:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892637"},"modified":"2026-07-18T22:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:23:56","slug":"sakas-hat-trick-lifts-england-past-mbappe-and-france-6-4-in-wild-world-cup-third-place-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1892637","title":{"rendered":"Saka\u2019s hat trick lifts England past Mbapp\u00e9 and France 6-4 in wild World Cup third-place game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bukayo Saka scored three goals to lead England to a 6-4 win over France for third place in the World Cup, while Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 surpassed Lionel Messi\u2019s career World Cup scoring record and took the lead in the Golden Boot race with a pair of second-half goals. It was the highest-scoring World Cup g&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/52f94-mbapp-starts-for-france-in-third-place-match-vs-england-while-kane-and-bellingham-sit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bukayo Saka scored three goals to lead England to a 6-4 win over France for third place in the World Cup, while Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 surpassed Lionel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1892638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892639,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892637\/revisions\/1892639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}