{"id":236393,"date":"2026-06-15T17:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-suffer-heavy-defeat-as-carthage-eagles-stumble-in-world-cup-opener\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T17:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:04:17","slug":"tunisia-suffer-heavy-defeat-as-carthage-eagles-stumble-in-world-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-suffer-heavy-defeat-as-carthage-eagles-stumble-in-world-cup-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia Suffer Heavy Defeat As Carthage Eagles Stumble in World Cup Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>Tunisia&#8217;s return to the FIFA World Cup stage began in painful fashion on Sunday night as Sweden delivered a ruthless attacking display to claim a commanding 5-1 victory in their opening Group F encounter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Carthage Eagles arrived at the tournament hoping to make a strong statement, but instead found themselves overwhelmed by a Swedish side that combined pace, precision and clinical finishing to seize control of the match from the opening minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The defeat leaves Tunisia with significant work&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606150103.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisia&#8217;s return to the FIFA World Cup stage began in painful fashion on Sunday night as Sweden delivered a ruthless attacking display to claim a commanding 5-1 victory in their opening Group F encounter. The Carthage Eagles arrived at the tournament hoping to make a strong statement, but instead found themselves overwhelmed by a Swedish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":236394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681698:94b9da49875da38590b3bdda9905af20:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,21242,6674,6531,5232,8130,257,13937,254,10636,6584,4703,653,5093],"class_list":["post-236393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-carthage","tag-cup","tag-defeat","tag-eagles","tag-heavy","tag-news","tag-opener","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stumble","tag-suffer","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681698:94b9da49875da38590b3bdda9905af20:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}