{"id":7958,"date":"2026-06-21T22:07:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/?p=7958"},"modified":"2026-06-21T22:07:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:07:58","slug":"courtois-key-for-belgium-to-secure-a-point-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/?p=7958","title":{"rendered":"Courtois, key for Belgium to secure a point against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div apptemplateparser=\"\">\n<div>\n<p><b>Thibaut Courtois <\/b>was instrumental in the draw between Belgium and Iran. The Real Madrid goalkeeper, who equaled Scifo as the Belgian player with the most World Cup appearances (17), kept a clean sheet with outstanding saves that prevented his team from losing.<\/p>\n<p>The match in Los Angeles started evenly, and Courtois prevented a 1-0 deficit in the 13th minute with a spectacular save from a low shot by Kanani. Despite both teams&#8217; chances, the first half ended 0-0.<\/p>\n<p>After the restart, <b>Courtois<\/b> made another great save from a powerful volley by Taremi. In the 66th minute, Ngoy was sent off, leaving Belgium with ten men, but despite the numerical disadvantage, they held on for the draw and secured a point, keeping their qualification hopes alive heading into the final matchday against New Zealand (Saturday 27, 5:00 am).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thibaut Courtois was instrumental in the draw between Belgium and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}