{"id":16131,"date":"2026-06-16T17:14:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/?p=16131"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:29:30","slug":"mexico-beats-south-africa-2-0-in-world-cup-opening-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/mexico-beats-south-africa-2-0-in-world-cup-opening-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico beats South Africa 2-0 in World Cup opening match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hosts Mexico have made a winning start to the tournament by defeating South Africa 2-0 in the opening match of the World Cup.\u00a0Julian Quinones and Raul Jimenez scored a goal each for Mexico in the match at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City on Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three red cards were shown in the competitive match.\u00a0Mexico took the lead in the ninth minute, when South Africa&#8217;s Spefelo Sithole made a mistake in controlling the ball after a goal kick, and Quinones took advantage of it with a brilliant shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0South Africa suffered another setback towards the end of the match. Themba Zwane was sent off for an unnecessary foul, and the team was reduced to nine men. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, with moments left in the game, Mexico&#8217;s Cesar Montes was also shown a red card by the referee for denying a clear goal-scoring opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hosts Mexico have made a winning start to the tournament by defeating South Africa 2-0 in the opening match of the World Cup.\u00a0Julian Quinones and Raul Jimenez scored a goal each for Mexico in the match at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City on Thursday. Three red cards were shown in the competitive match.\u00a0Mexico took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[468,449],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16133,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131\/revisions\/16133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16131"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=16131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}