{"id":49137,"date":"2018-07-11T15:57:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/11\/world-cup-2018-croatia-v-england-buildup-as-france-reach-final-live\/"},"modified":"2018-07-11T15:57:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T13:57:13","slug":"world-cup-2018-croatia-v-england-buildup-as-france-reach-final-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=49137","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2018: Croatia v England buildup as France reach final \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updates and reaction following the first semi-finalWorld Cup Daily: Destiny calls for EnglandAny thoughts? You can email Ben or tweet @benfisherj 2.56pm BST His performance against Spain in that opening round of matches \u2013 so long ago now \u2013 was nothing short of stunning, and the purring Portuguese has since moved on to pastures new with Juventus. But, in Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid are losing more than just four-hundred-and-fifty-one goals (44 of which were hat-tricks): Related: Cristiano Ronaldo at Madrid was more than just goals. The end feels cold | Sid Lowe 2.49pm BST Forget all the talk of Harry Kane, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 or Luka Modric. We have a new star; Google has reported queries containing \u2018World Cup\u2019 have gone up by 200%, and those involving \u2018beer\u2019 by 65% as an old favourite helps fans in Russia connect: Related: Google Translate: the unlikely World Cup hero breaking barriers for fans | Nick Ames Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2018\/jul\/11\/world-cup-2018-france-into-the-final-plus-croatia-v-england-buildup-live\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup 2018: Croatia v England buildup as France reach final \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates and reaction following the first semi-finalWorld Cup Daily: Destiny calls for EnglandAny thoughts? You can email Ben or tweet @benfisherj 2.56pm BST His performance against Spain in that opening round of matches \u2013 so long ago now \u2013 was nothing short of stunning, and the purring Portuguese has since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}