{"id":37809,"date":"2026-07-18T20:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/18\/france-faces-england-in-world-cup-3rd-place-face-off-bellingham-and-kane-sit-out-mbappe-takes-the-field\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T20:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:58:59","slug":"france-faces-england-in-world-cup-3rd-place-face-off-bellingham-and-kane-sit-out-mbappe-takes-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/18\/france-faces-england-in-world-cup-3rd-place-face-off-bellingham-and-kane-sit-out-mbappe-takes-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"France Faces England in World Cup 3rd Place Face-Off: Bellingham and Kane Sit Out, Mbappe Takes the Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuchel&#8217;s Smart Choices for England&#8217;s Lineup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s coach, Thomas Tuchel, explained his decision to rest key players Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham as a logical choice. After a tough journey through the FIFA World Cup, which included a match against Norway that went into extra time and a challenging game against Mexico where the team played with just 10 players, Tuchel felt it was necessary to give some players a break.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our players have put in a lot of effort in each match,&#8221; Tuchel said. &#8220;They were ready to play again, but we decided it was best to save them for later in the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tuchel also reassured fans about Bukayo Saka, confirming he is fit to return to the starting lineup after missing the semi-final. Declan Rice will also start again as he continues to recover from an illness.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuchel&#8217;s Smart Choices for England&#8217;s Lineup England&#8217;s coach, Thomas Tuchel, explained his decision to rest key players Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham as a logical choice. After a tough journey through the FIFA World Cup, which included a match against Norway that went into extra time and a challenging game against Mexico where the team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[45797,48365,13428,49958,46594,49955,49956,6375,43896,49957],"class_list":["post-37809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-didier-deschamps","tag-england-football-team","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-france-england-live-score","tag-france-football-team","tag-france-vs-england","tag-france-vs-england-live","tag-kylian-mbappe","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-world-cup-third-place-playoff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}