{"id":51101,"date":"2025-10-14T03:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/courtois-chases-rat-during-match-belgium-defeats-wales-and-qualifies-for-the-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:34:14","slug":"courtois-chases-rat-during-match-belgium-defeats-wales-and-qualifies-for-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/courtois-chases-rat-during-match-belgium-defeats-wales-and-qualifies-for-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtois chases rat during match: Belgium defeats Wales and qualifies for the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1014%2Fr1559924_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nAn unexpected incident interrupted the World Cup qualifying match between Wales and Belgium, when a rodent invaded the playing field.\n\nThe match, which was played on Monday, was momentarily suspended due to the presence of the animal on the Cardiff City Stadium pitch.\n\nAfter a brief tour of the field, the mouse was finally dislodged by Brennan Johnson, with the help of Thibaut Courtois, Real Madrid goalkeeper.\n\nThe rodent disappeared behind a billboard, marking the end of its fleeting appearance.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1014%2Fr1559910_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1014%2Fr1559911_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1014%2Fr1559921_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1014%2Fr1559922_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nAfter the rodent&#8217;s exit, Belgium defeated Wales with a score of 4-2, consolidating their position in Group J.\n\nJoe Rodon put the home side ahead, but Kevin De Bruyne equalized after a handball. Thomas Meunier put Belgium ahead.\n\nDe Bruyne scored a second penalty before Nathan Broadhead reduced the deficit for Wales. Leandro Trossard secured the victory for Belgium.\n\nWales is now four points behind Belgium in Group J and seems to be competing for second place with North Macedonia.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unexpected incident interrupted the World Cup qualifying match between Wales and Belgium, when a rodent invaded the playing field. The match, which was played on Monday, was momentarily suspended due to the presence of the animal on the Cardiff City Stadium pitch. After a brief tour of the field, the mouse was finally dislodged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5030,9792,607,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-51101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-rat","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-wales"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}