FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread

[Altryist]

Spain are stronger than Turkey therefore it doesn't matter if they're second best in the group, when you face the best you'll be destroyed and that's what happened. Spain used them as an example for others that'll be coming to play them with the hopes of winning. Spain are demonstrating their dominance and I think they're among the favourites to win this world cup coming up. The Spain team is well balanced. They dominated the game and Turkey didn't stand a chance of winning. The defence of Spain is also very strong and their midfield too as most of the goals came from the midfield players. Merino got his hat trick and Pedri with a brace.

Spain beat Turkey too easily, but Turkey can play well against average teams, and it is difficult for them to play against favorites. Although I do not remember the last time they lost with such a crushing score in official games. They need to pay attention to defense, because conceding so many is unacceptable even against such a strong opponent. As for Spain, they showed that they are in excellent shape, and if the opponent allows them, they are ready to score as much as they want.

[abhiseshakana]

Turkey 0 - 6 Spain

How the hell did Turkey concede 6 goals? We are talking about a very important game, a World Cup qualifier, but they conceded 6 goals, they couldn't score at least 1 goal. How was that possible? Turkey was supposed to be the second strongest team in that group, but after that defeat, I see them with little chance of qualifying.

I'm really surprised about the scoreline but then again, this is Spain we are talking about. Time and time again they keep proving why they deserve all the trophies they have gotten and I need to commend Luis de la Fuentes on his ability to maintain such a fine record. He's the only coach with the least record of losses since he took over the job as coach. Turkey played fine football but they were often leaving too much gaps open on their defense and playing against a team that is well coordinated like Spain, that's a very poor thing to do.

Spain is indeed a strong team, and they always strive for victory in every match they play, but getting a 6-0 win was still a surprise because the one they beat was Turkey, which is not a weak team, especially since Turkey had an advantage in this match as they were playing at home. Turkey actually fought back early in the match, but their rhythm was monotonous, so they didn't create many chances. I think the 3 goals in the first half that made Türkiye's mentality waver.

[Fiatless]

Spain is indeed a strong team, and they always strive for victory in every match they play, but getting a 6-0 win was still a surprise because the one they beat was Turkey, which is not a weak team, especially since Turkey had an advantage in this match as they were playing at home. Turkey actually fought back early in the match, but their rhythm was monotonous, so they didn't create many chances. I think the 3 goals in the first half that made Türkiye's mentality waver.

After a win against Georgia, Türkiye's fans were expecting to see a competitive match with Spain. But the power of the Spanish side was too much for them to handle.  It was so bad that the home fans began to leave:Torku Arena before the end of the game. Spain is now at the top of Group E with six points, with Georgia and Türkiye in second and third position. The group is still open, and the Turkish side is putting more effort into regaining lost ground.

[GiftedMAN]

Spain beat Turkey too easily, but Turkey can play well against average teams, and it is difficult for them to play against favorites. Although I do not remember the last time they lost with such a crushing score in official games. They need to pay attention to defense, because conceding so many is unacceptable even against such a strong opponent. As for Spain, they showed that they are in excellent shape, and if the opponent allows them, they are ready to score as much as they want.

Spain was too powerful to Turkey in the game they shared possession with Turkey but when they attack they don't give the defense any chance to get closer to them it made it impossible for Turkey defenders not to get closer when they are moving to score goals. Spain is not on the same level with Turkey but the display of Turkey does not look like they can survive even when they play against an average team like they are, conceding 6 goals doesn't show any sign of seriousness even though Spain is a better team the should have made good changes to avoid more goals after the half time.

[cande86]

Hey guys, on Tuesday, my country, my national team, will be putting its life on the line. I can't deny that I've been very anxious. It's been 40 years since I've waited for my country to sing its anthem at this grand event.

The worst thing is that I feel like my team, I don't know if it will give its all. I'm worried about that. The Colombian team will go all out to crush us. To be honest, I would like to have the opportunity like those players to play for my country and leave my soul there (if I were a professional soccer player) and at least reach a playoff.

If it doesn't happen, it will be another failure. I think my generation wouldn't make the difference. From now on, it would be my son's generation that can make the difference.

It's always the next generations that make the difference, we must always hope in them, I know it's a shame not to be able to do things for your country but unfortunately this is the cycle of life and if your generation doesn't manage to make the team great, the next one will think about it

[SmartCharpa]

Spain is indeed a strong team, and they always strive for victory in every match they play, but getting a 6-0 win was still a surprise because the one they beat was Turkey, which is not a weak team, especially since Turkey had an advantage in this match as they were playing at home. Turkey actually fought back early in the match, but their rhythm was monotonous, so they didn't create many chances. I think the 3 goals in the first half that made Türkiye's mentality waver.

Despite the fact that Spain is a good squad, I did not expect them to beat Turkey by six goals. As you said, Turkey is also strong, and when they played at home, they have a home advantage. I believe Turkey was weakened by the three goals conceded in the first half, they might have used more strength after those three goals. Turkey had 11 shots total during the game, two were on target, yet they were unable to score a single goal.

However, I believe this will be Turkey's worst result in a recent game, Spain only scored three goals against Bulgaria, a team that was even weaker than Turkey, while Turkey conceded six goals, 3 goals in each half of the game. That is why football is unpredictable, I bet on BTTS because Turkey won their last game against Georgia despite getting a red card.

[Cossyblack]

In the second half, Turkey put up a good fight. However, they still struggled to penetrate Spain's formidable defense. It's a shame Turkey lost so badly, in my opinion. The 6-0 loss was completely unexpected. Although I knew Spain would win by a large margin, 6 goals without reply was beyond my expectations.

Spain looks set to continue its dominance. I'm confident this team will mature even further in the upcoming World Cup. The young players on this team have plenty of room to develop based on their increasing experience.

I expected a challenge from both sides, but Turkey's performance was too poor. The same defensive mistakes led to all the goals they conceded. They were desperate in their attacking approach, which Spain used as an opportunity to score all their goals. Honestly, I was so disappointed by Turkey's performance.  Spain played brilliantly and deserved to win double assists from Lamine Yamal, Pedri scored brace and Merino scored hat trick, I expected Lamine Yamal to score a goal, but I liked how he chose to play for the team and provided assists instead. If Spain continues to play like this, I'm sure they'll have a significant impact on the world cup.

Turkey performance against Spain was indeed very poor even when they had the home advantage,they still ended up conceding six goals at the end. It was a shameful defeat that was least expected, although their defeat couldn't have been averted anyway especially since it was Spain they were challenging. Spain is a very strong opponent that hasn't lost a single game in their last 10 encounters. With the winning streak Spain have been maintaining,I knew turkey fates have been decided but I never imagined it would be this bad. However turkey wouldn't have conceded this much goals if they had a very strong defense and it also appears that Turkish players weren't adequately trained to face Spain

[shinratensei_]

Turkey lost 6-0 to Spain. It's a terrible result for Turkey, there's no excuse for this score. We may be the second-best team in the group, but we conceded six goals from Spain. Even Bulgaria only conceded three.
I hope we can finish second in this group.

I never expected your nation would be facing massive lose like this. I'm wondering what happened with your club. I meant they looked so damn bad in mid, and not consistently defending. Letting the defenders to always be one on one against Talented player such as Yamal is not acceptable.
The hard work rate showed by club massively dropped compared to the previous game. However, the chance is there. Your club might not able to farm three points from Spain, but still possible to farm the rest.

The mid still need some touches to ensure they will help the defender.

[Akbarkoe]

In the World Cup qualifier between the Netherlands and Lithuania, I had the Dutch as the favorites but they faced a very difficult situation in this match. The depth of experience of the Netherlands football team was immense but they still could not win by a large margin in this World Cup qualifying match, so it's only right that Lithuania was able to perform at their best in this match.
Besides everyone may have noticed that Memphis Depay of this team was able to score two goals against Lithuania and he has already become the team's all-time top scorer, even this player from the Netherlands has experience playing in different leagues, which is why he was able to play yesterday with great ease.

The Orange Squad demonstrated significant dominance and possession throughout the match, achieving over 70%. They also managed to launch more attacks on the Lithuanian goal. However, it was unfortunate that they were unable to capitalize on their dominance and capitalize on every opportunity they had to score more goals.

The first half was quite tense. The Netherlands took the lead twice over Lithuania, but unfortunately, they failed to maintain their lead twice, leaving the first half tied at 2-2. The second half ended with Depay's second goal in the 63rd minute, securing the Netherlands' lead over Lithuania, securing the three points.
So far in Group G, the Netherlands is the only undefeated team, thus sitting at the top of the group standings, followed by Poland in second place.

[Agbe]

Turkey lost 6-0 to Spain. It's a terrible result for Turkey, there's no excuse for this score. We may be the second-best team in the group, but we conceded six goals from Spain. Even Bulgaria only conceded three.
I hope we can finish second in this group.

I never expected your nation would be facing massive lose like this. I'm wondering what happened with your club. I meant they looked so damn bad in mid, and not consistently defending. Letting the defenders to always be one on one against Talented player such as Yamal is not acceptable.
The hard work rate showed by club massively dropped compared to the previous game. However, the chance is there. Your club might not able to farm three points from Spain, but still possible to farm the rest.

The mid still need some touches to ensure they will help the defender.

What do you expect from turkey when they come up against oppositions like Spain yes turkey was impressive in their previous game but anyone that was expecting a great performance from Turkey may not be facing reality on ground, these two countries when it comes to football is not on thesame level and we saw it played out.

[BABY SHOES]

Spain is indeed a strong team, and they always strive for victory in every match they play, but getting a 6-0 win was still a surprise because the one they beat was Turkey, which is not a weak team, especially since Turkey had an advantage in this match as they were playing at home. Turkey actually fought back early in the match, but their rhythm was monotonous, so they didn't create many chances. I think the 3 goals in the first half that made Türkiye's mentality waver.

After a win against Georgia, Türkiye's fans were expecting to see a competitive match with Spain. But the power of the Spanish side was too much for them to handle.  It was so bad that the home fans began to leave:Torku Arena before the end of the game. Spain is now at the top of Group E with six points, with Georgia and Türkiye in second and third position. The group is still open, and the Turkish side is putting more effort into regaining lost ground.

Turkey was completely helpless because Spain was too difficult to beat, and Turkey could only stand by and watch as they were bombarded with goals.

Of course, Turkey still has a good chance of qualifying, and there are still many games left to play, so this defeat may have knocked their confidence, but perhaps they will do better in the future than before.

If I'm not mistaken, the last game will be in Spain, so Turkey will have a chance to avenge their defeat there.

[Fiatless]

The Orange Squad demonstrated significant dominance and possession throughout the match, achieving over 70%. They also managed to launch more attacks on the Lithuanian goal. However, it was unfortunate that they were unable to capitalize on their dominance and capitalize on every opportunity they had to score more goals.

The first half was quite tense. The Netherlands took the lead twice over Lithuania, but unfortunately, they failed to maintain their lead twice, leaving the first half tied at 2-2. The second half ended with Depay's second goal in the 63rd minute, securing the Netherlands' lead over Lithuania, securing the three points.
So far in Group G, the Netherlands is the only undefeated team, thus sitting at the top of the group standings, followed by Poland in second place.

The statistics of the match didn't reflect the outcome or scores. Lithuania had just 26% ball possession and they had just four shots on goal.  But it seems coach Edgaras Jankauskas' plan was to absorb the pressure and take advantage of the few chances they would create. And it worked perfectly because two goals came from just three shots on target. The Netherlands was fortunate to get the third goal through Depay. From my observation, the Netherlands needs to improve because they played below my expectations.

[ChocolateBitcoinK]

Turkey 0 - 6 Spain

How the hell did Turkey concede 6 goals? We are talking about a very important game, a World Cup qualifier, but they conceded 6 goals, they couldn't score at least 1 goal. How was that possible? Turkey was supposed to be the second strongest team in that group, but after that defeat, I see them with little chance of qualifying.

I'm really surprised about the scoreline but then again, this is Spain we are talking about. Time and time again they keep proving why they deserve all the trophies they have gotten and I need to commend Luis de la Fuentes on his ability to maintain such a fine record. He's the only coach with the least record of losses since he took over the job as coach. Turkey played fine football but they were often leaving too much gaps open on their defense and playing against a team that is well coordinated like Spain, that's a very poor thing to do.

Spain is indeed a strong team, and they always strive for victory in every match they play, but getting a 6-0 win was still a surprise because the one they beat was Turkey, which is not a weak team, especially since Turkey had an advantage in this match as they were playing at home. Turkey actually fought back early in the match, but their rhythm was monotonous, so they didn't create many chances. I think the 3 goals in the first half that made Türkiye's mentality waver.

Spain really showed a great performance in the match, Türkiye's Spain's great performance could not survive in any way, the match was completely under Spain's control, Spain did great in all aspects, Spain had a total of 12 shots on target in the match, while Türkiye's had only 2 shots on target despite being at home, Türkiye's performed much worse than expected, Spain scored 3 goals in the first half, and 3 goals in the second half, they played the whole match with a very great performance and defeated Türkiye's with a huge margin of 0-6 goals and won the match brilliantly.

[TelolettOm]

In another match I also highlighted how Germany played overall their performance is not impressive luckily in the second half they were able to control the situation and scored 2 more goals. We call Germany lucky to be in the easy group and they should take over the group but the situation does not allow it .

After a disappointing defeat in the first match, finally this time, Germany won 3-1 against Northern Ireland. This is what should have happened, Germany does not lack great players, even their substitute players are also top players in European clubs, so, they should be able to win, in the future too, do not let another miserable and lose points. Now, Germany is ranked 3rd, must be able to optimize again so that it can at least enter the top 2, even better can be top 1.

Source: Germany's #WorldCupQualifiers win over Northern Ireland

[$weetne$$]

Spain was too powerful to Turkey in the game they shared possession with Turkey but when they attack they don't give the defense any chance to get closer to them it made it impossible for Turkey defenders not to get closer when they are moving to score goals. Spain is not on the same level with Turkey but the display of Turkey does not look like they can survive even when they play against an average team like they are, conceding 6 goals doesn't show any sign of seriousness even though Spain is a better team the should have made good changes to avoid more goals after the half time.

Looking at the quality of players in Spain, I will say Turkey did tried only that the quality variation is just too big, one which we cannot actually find a balance with and for Spain it was expected they win and they got a deserving one meanwhile Turkey on the other hand made an impressive attempt but I just hope they will have a chance as it does not really seem so to me, they have a quite good league, they should look if they could see what they can do with working with these teams to get their national team in a more solid shape.

[pewboy]

It was so unbelievable how it all happened that they conceded 6 goals to nothing in that game making it the first time in 41 years since they had conceded such number of goals at home. Spain played the both halves with 3 goals in each half. What even thrilled me the more was Lamine Yamal not being able to register even a single goal in that game where Merino Scored a hatrick and a brace for pedri though he got an assist. The stats was crazy too with Turkey registering very few shots with only 2 on target against Spain's 12 shots on target.

Let's even talk about Cucurella, that guy is good and he is very pivotal to Spain defence, every team needs someone like that at the back. In game of football, anything is possible but good teams like the current team is fiace always and this is like the days of Xavi's Spain when they were so fiace always. I actually didn't see that number of goals coming in the first place.

Spain is truly a scary team this year. It's impressive how they always manage to get in front of goal so easily and score so many goals despite the opponent being so strong. These guys are incredible. If they continue like this, they can even think of going far in the next World Cup.

[KTChampions]

There were games that really shocked me with their results, for example:

Lithuania 2 - 3 Netherlands

Honestly, I didn't expect the Netherlands to concede 2 goals in that game, because they weren't playing against a strong opponent; on the contrary, they were a very weak opponent. That was another game.

Turkey 0 - 6 Spain

How the hell did Turkey concede 6 goals? We are talking about a very important game, a World Cup qualifier, but they conceded 6 goals, they couldn't score at least 1 goal. How was that possible? Turkey was supposed to be the second strongest team in that group, but after that defeat, I see them with little chance of qualifying.

You probably bet on a more confident victory for the Netherlands? Otherwise, how can you explain your surprise - it seems to me an ordinary result, just 3 points for heavy favourite without any particular focus on dominance or a big score.
As for Spain and Turkey, I wrote before the game (discussing the odds of 1.5 for Spain to win) that everything is logical - Spain is the main favorite of any tournament, and Turkey is in a permanent crisis. Plus the format is such that the favorite needs a win. The final score is slightly higher than predicted, but the balance of power in the pair is exactly that.

[retreat]

Despite one of their key strikers, Lukaku, being absent due to injury, the Belgian national team appears to be increasingly prolific in scoring goals.

Just look at the two matches they've played this week. The Belgian national team has scored a total of 12 goals in those two matches, with 6 goals per match. And it seems like there's always a different player scoring. Only Kevin De Bruyne has managed to score in both matches, with a total of 3 goals. I think Belgium is slightly better now.

The Belgian national team has performed very well in their last two matches, earning 12 points in just two matches, placing them in second place in Group J, one place behind North Macedonia. This is a significant achievement for the Belgian national team, especially since their players have been quite productive in their last matches. If they can win their remaining matches, it's very possible that the Belgian national team can qualify directly for the World Cup.

[Joy- maker]

Spain is indeed a strong team, and they always strive for victory in every match they play, but getting a 6-0 win was still a surprise because the one they beat was Turkey, which is not a weak team, especially since Turkey had an advantage in this match as they were playing at home. Turkey actually fought back early in the match, but their rhythm was monotonous, so they didn't create many chances. I think the 3 goals in the first half that made Türkiye's mentality waver.

Despite the fact that Spain is a good squad, I did not expect them to beat Turkey by six goals. As you said, Turkey is also strong, and when they played at home, they have a home advantage. I believe Turkey was weakened by the three goals conceded in the first half, they might have used more strength after those three goals. Turkey had 11 shots total during the game, two were on target, yet they were unable to score a single goal.

However, I believe this will be Turkey's worst result in a recent game, Spain only scored three goals against Bulgaria, a team that was even weaker than Turkey, while Turkey conceded six goals, 3 goals in each half of the game. That is why football is unpredictable, I bet on BTTS because Turkey won their last game against Georgia despite getting a red card.

although I didn't follow up that match, but when I checked Livescore I was surprised, because the score I saw spain beat turkey 6:0 which was never expecting to see such thing because turkey team is not a week team, but there is one thing you guys should understand that in football anything can help, normally nobody was expecting Spain to beat turkey 6:0, because turkey also had good team, and I believe turkey team is still in good performance, but not like the one of Spain. So things like this one of Spain and turkey due happen in football.

[bastisisca]

Spain was too powerful to Turkey in the game they shared possession with Turkey but when they attack they don't give the defense any chance to get closer to them it made it impossible for Turkey defenders not to get closer when they are moving to score goals. Spain is not on the same level with Turkey but the display of Turkey does not look like they can survive even when they play against an average team like they are, conceding 6 goals doesn't show any sign of seriousness even though Spain is a better team the should have made good changes to avoid more goals after the half time.

Spain plays a game that i really like, dense and precise dribbling, and precise and lightning-fast actions, it's no surprise that they have a very strong and fearsome national team.
and i have to say that they also make a good game in terms of entertainment, which is what matters in my opinion