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BBC SportWhat each team needs to reach World Cup knockouts
With the final round of group fixtures nearing a conclusion the path to the World Cup final on 19 July is starting to take shape.
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The Guardian FootballSpain’s Nico Williams hits out at ‘completely unnecessary’ Uruguay tackle that injured him
Yéremy Pino has avoided fracture, Spain reveal His and Williams’s injuries described as moderate Spain’s Nico Williams has strongly criticised the “completely unnecessary” tackle by a Uruguay player which left him with another injury. The winger and Yéremy Pino were hurt as qualification for the last 32 came at a heavy price, though the European champions issued a more positive update than expected on the players’ condition. Spain described the injuries sustained by Pino and Williams as moderate. Pino had been expected to miss the rest of the World Cup and there were concerns they had lost Williams too. Continue reading...
ESPNUruguay yank keeper at HT after howler vs. Spain
Uruguay pulled goalkeeper Fernando Muslera at halftime of their FIFA World Cup group stage final after his blunder in the first half gifted Spain the lead at Estadio Akron on Friday.
ESPNCape Verde smallest nation to make WC knockouts
Cape Verde's memorable journey at their first World Cup is not over yet.
ESPNMessi to start on bench for Argentina group finale...
Lionel Messi will start Argentina's final group stage match against Jordan on Saturday from the substitutes' bench, coach Lionel Scaloni said.
The Guardian FootballHugo Broos rises above South Africa’s problems to break new World Cup ground
Blunder that threatened qualification and poor start against Mexico are in the past as date with Canada looms Hugo Broos, South Africa’s Belgian head coach, deserves a significant share of the credit for Bafana Bafana reaching the World Cup knockout stages for the first time in their rather chequered history. The country had been absent from the tournament since they hosted it in 2010 and participated only twice before that, in 1998 and 2002. A wave of unbridled excitement was triggered when Broos ended the long wait to qualify. “The question I always asked myself is: ‘Why is South Africa not a dominating country in Africa?’” Broos said in a recent radio interview. “When I came here, I had a plan. I kept the plan till the end, till the results were there, because I knew that was the way to do it.” Continue reading...
The Guardian FootballWorld Cup 2026: England through, Scotland wait goes on and Spain hit by injuries – live
⚽ Latest news from the 16th and final day of the groups ⚽ Third-place table | Player guide | Golden Boot | Mail Alex Amid all the joy, there’s the treatment of Iran. They were denied permission to stay in Seattle after their draw against Egypt, reports Ben Fisher. We’ve got to have another look at Cape Verde’s celebrations. Continue reading...
BBC SportWhere does Scotland's World Cup campaign leave Clarke?
Did Steve Clarke get the best out of his Scotland squad at the 2026 World Cup as they face group-stage exit?
The Guardian FootballFootball Daily | Filth, fury and fairytales: Uruguay and Cape Verde bring football heritage
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! The Geopolitics World Cup has its North Korea 1966, its Cameroon 1990, rank outsiders to revive hearts hardened by relentless cynicism. For Pak Doo-ik and Roger Milla, read Vozinha, and all his Cape Verde teammates, including Pico Lopes, a defender recruited while playing for Shamrock Rovers from the diaspora via LinkedChat . An archipelago nation with a population smaller than Bradford has negotiated a tough group including two former winners in Spain and Uruguay. They will next meet Argentina in Miami, the adopted city of Lionel Messi, where the fairytale likely ends. Though if not, then they would become the greatest World Cup story of all. “We are small but we have big hearts,” sobbed Vozinha following a 0-0 draw with Saudi Arabia and a quick check on the other Group H result from Guadalajara. Having sat through the first group games and fumed at the obvious lack of jeopardy, I decided my GWC experience would be significantly enhanced if I ignored some games and played walking football for the 60-plus generation instead. To my amazement, there is an entire new football language waiting to be discovered by anybody prepared to play the beautiful game at a sedate pace. For example, the walking football term used when a player scores three goals is ‘a gerihat-trick’. Come to think of it, this all isn’t far removed from descriptions of England’s performance against Ghana. Does anybody else have any walking football terms?” – Mike Towers. Re: tournament wording in different languages (Football Daily letters passim). I’d love to be the first of 1,057 Scots to tell you what ‘knockout stage’, ‘quarter-final’, ‘semi-final’, ‘final’ and the like are in our national tongue, but I don’t think any of us knows” – Peter Storch (and no other Scots). Leaving aside the £116m for Elliot Anderson (yesterday’s Beyond The GWC, full email edition), I’m concerned about a midfielder called Odysseas Vlachodimos being mentioned in passing . Is he the kind of player who gets lost in the middle of games, or does he tease the opposition till they lose control?” – Kev The Poet. This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions . Continue reading...
The Guardian FootballWho would the US need to beat to win the World Cup? Probably only Spain, France and England
Mauricio Pochettino’s team won their group after some impressive performances. But they’d probably need to beat some of the world’s best to claim the title Football Unites the World … in wishing it had paid more attention in applied mathematics class. Or so the Fifa slogan could have been expanded to say, given the mind-warping that arose from the formula for slicing the newly expanded 48-team tournament down to 32 sides for the first knockout round . After all, why do a random draw when you can build a matrix with 495 possible scenarios in order to assign the fixtures for the eight best third-placers? Anyway, what matters is that Mauricio Pochettino’s team will face Bosnia and Herzegovina in the round of 32, and no new format is going to stop us from – in time-honored fashion – speculating wildly about what may happen next while we still have the chance, with the potential for American wins rated using one of the mantra-loving manager’s motivational rallying cries of choice. Continue reading...
The Guardian FootballBielsa exits World Cup with admission: ’I haven’t left anything to Uruguayan football’
Head coach to depart after Uruguay exit with Spain loss Bielsa: ‘I am responsible for all the disappointment’ Marcelo Bielsa said he had left nothing to Uruguayan football after overseeing their elimination from the World Cup. Uruguay failed to win a game in a group that included Cape Verde and Saudi Arabia and their exit was confirmed with a 1-0 defeat by Spain in Guadalajara during which the 40-year-old goalkeeper Fernando Muslera was withdrawn at half-time after his error handed Spain the only goal of the game. The 70-year-old Argentinian, who took over in 2023 and whose relationship with the players was poor, to the point of describing himself as “toxic”, will not continue in the post. Continue reading...
The Guardian FootballThe World Cup is undressing the myth of Trump’s American homogeneity
The 2026 World Cup has become a rebuke to Trump’s homogeneous vision of America, revealing a tournament – and a US team – shaped by migration and diversity Following the Department of Homeland Security on social media is a bit like wandering through a casino at 4am. Sooner or later, you’ll see something that makes you go: How did we get here ? There was one of those moments earlier this month. Days after the US opened their World Cup campaign with a 4-1 romp over Paraguay, DHS marked the occasion by posting an image of Chris Richards, Sergiño Dest and Folarin Balogun exulting beneath the headline “DEFEND THE HOMELAND” and the caption “OUR SOIL”. Continue reading...
The Guardian FootballFrance earn favourites tag and Cape Verde make history: World Cup Daily – podcast
Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning , Mark Langdon and Philippe Auclair as France beat a much-changed Norway and Cape Verde progress Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts and join the conversation on email . On the podcast today: Group I delivered a fairly odd game between Norway and France. Norway rested almost an entire team and Les Bleus coasted to a 4-1 win, maintaining their 100% start to the World Cup. The Golden Boot race also has a new runner thanks to an Ousmane Dembélé hat-trick. Continue reading...
ESPNWorld Cup Daily: Cape Verde through to the knockou...
Amazing scenes on Friday as Cape Verde, against all odds, sealed their spot in the round of 32. Re-live that match, plus all the latest and greatest, from another day of compelling World Cup action.
ESPNThree games in, Belgium have finally kick-started ...
Leandro Trossard's brace sealed Belgium top spot in Group G, and helped blow out the cobwebs from what has been a very slow tournament start from the former world No. 1s.
BBC Sport'I leave nothing' - the end of 'toxic' Bielsa's Uruguay reign
With Uruguay eliminated from the 2026 World Cup, BBC Sport looks at what has gone wrong for them under colourful coach Marcelo Bielsa.
The Guardian Football‘Nothing is impossible’: Cape Verde relishing World Cup date with Argentina
Cape Verde reach last 32 after draw with Saudi Arabia ‘We showed the world you should not fear difficulties’ The Cape Verde head coach, Bubista, said his team have “shown that nothing is impossible” after his side secured a historic meeting with Argentina in the last 32. Cape Verde became the smallest country by population to reach the World Cup’s knockout stages, and the first debutants since 2010 to do so, after drawing 0-0 with Saudi Arabia in Houston. The result meant they finished second in Group H, a stunning achievement given they were deemed outsiders in a group also including Spain and Uruguay. Continue reading...