{"id":1267227,"date":"2022-12-18T20:04:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T20:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/18\/mbappe-praised-by-geoff-hurst-joining-world-cup-final-hat-trick-club\/"},"modified":"2022-12-18T20:04:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T20:04:59","slug":"mbappe-praised-by-geoff-hurst-joining-world-cup-final-hat-trick-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/18\/mbappe-praised-by-geoff-hurst-joining-world-cup-final-hat-trick-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbappe praised by Geoff Hurst joining World Cup final hat-trick club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"385\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/kylian-mbappe-hands-221218g1050-696x385.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"kylian-mbappe-hands-221218g1050\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Geoff Hurst said he had enjoyed a \u201cgood run\u201d after France\u2019s Kylian Mbappe became just the second player after the England great to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>Hurst had stood alone for 56 years as the only player to score three goals in the showpiece match, with his treble central to England\u2019s 4-2 extra-time win over the then-West Germany at Wembley in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>But his feat was equalled on Sunday when Mbappe\u2019s treble helped France fight back from 2-0 down and then 3-2 behind at the Lusail Stadium as the final finished level at 3-3 after extra-time before Argentina prevailed in a penalty shoot-out that capped a dramatic match.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany congratulations to Mbappe, whatever happens, I\u2019ve had a great run!,\u201d Hurst tweeted after Mbappe scored his third goal and second from the penalty spot.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Many congratulations to Mbappe, whatever happens. I&#8217;ve had a great run!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sir Geoff Hurst (@TheGeoffHurst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGeoffHurst\/status\/1604532736802398208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>But although the France striker was on target again when the match went to penalties, it was Argentina who won 4-2 in the shoot-out.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"guGmPoO0jGA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mahama arrives at NDC National Congress - Adom TV (17-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/guGmPoO0jGA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Hurst said he had enjoyed a \u201cgood run\u201d after France\u2019s Kylian Mbappe became just the second player after the England great to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final. Hurst had stood alone for 56 years as the only player to score three goals in the showpiece match, with his treble central to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1267228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1665,262,1450,29890,919,29891,2015,4155,4127,784],"class_list":{"0":"post-1267227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-club","9":"tag-cup","10":"tag-final","11":"tag-geoff","12":"tag-hattrick","13":"tag-hurst","14":"tag-joining","15":"tag-mbappe","16":"tag-praised","17":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}