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

[abhiseshakana]

On UEFA qualifier, Iceland was having a lead against France but the 45th minute penalty for France made the game 1-1 by the halftime. Hungary and Portugal too are playing 1-1 at 52nd minute. Both of these are relatively easier group so a draw would not be very devastating for either france or portugal.

Iceland played quite well in this match, but unfortunately, they failed to maintain their victory. One goal scored by Iceland made France become more aggressive and put on continuous pressure, so it was very clear that France really dominated the course of the match. France managed to equalize just before the first half ended, and they managed to turn things around when Barcola scored the second goal in the 62nd minute.

Hungary 2 Vs Portugal 3 FT
Impressive game to watch and the visitors were clearly the better team in the match of 5 goal thriller. With Ronaldo's goal tonight, against Hungary his now leveled on 39 goals with Carlos Ruiz in the men's international qualifiers and needs one more goal to the top scorer of the men's international qualifiers. What a record that Ronaldo is breaking each and every time his stepping on the pitch.

This was an exciting match, even though Portugal dominated the game, but Hungary did not want to give up easily. Hungary lost a lot in terms of ball possession, but I think they had quite good effectiveness, therefore they were able to score 2 goals even though they didn't have many chances.

[pawel7777]

Another win for England. They destroyed Serbia 5-0, which was their 5th win out of 5 games played. Moreover, they haven't conceded a single goal so far. It's almost like it's too easy for them. I guess that's a good opportunity to test some new players, as there's not much at risk anymore.
If they keep it up, I won't be surprised if they are a clear favourite to win the world cup.

In another game, France struggled a bit to grab a win over Iceland. They got surprised with an opener from Iceland in the 21st minute, and it took them a while to respond. It wasn't a great display of converting advantage to goals by France, but a win is a win.

[Slow death]

It's understandable why people call Ronaldo "Penaldo". He scored another penalty goal and improved his statistics.

But it was thanks to Ronaldo's shot that he got the penalty, and scoring a penalty goal is not an easy task. It's true that people expect Ronaldo to score more goals that aren't penalties, but it's undeniable that Ronaldo's presence in the team has helped a lot. I really admire him because at his age he still plays very well, unlike many young players who can't help their country's national team.

This game just ended in a 1:1 draw.

South Africa with 17 points topping the group table. Now have automatically qualification to the 2026 World Cup tournament. While the rest team will struggle for the second place after which only one nation will qualify to play in the play off.

I confess that I was shocked when I saw that Nigeria was unable to beat South Africa. It was supposed that with the squad that Nigeria has, they would be able to qualify easily in this group. This raises the following question: could the problem not be with the coaches that Nigeria has hired? because in my opinion it seems that the Nigerian Football Federation should consider hiring a coach who has shown that he has managed to win many titles both nationally and internationally. Someone who knows Nigerian players well.

[DYOR+BTC]

It's understandable why people call Ronaldo "Penaldo". He scored another penalty goal and improved his statistics.

But it was thanks to Ronaldo's shot that he got the penalty, and scoring a penalty goal is not an easy task. It's true that people expect Ronaldo to score more goals that aren't penalties, but it's undeniable that Ronaldo's presence in the team has helped a lot. I really admire him because at his age he still plays very well, unlike many young players who can't help their country's national team.

This game just ended in a 1:1 draw.

South Africa with 17 points topping the group table. Now have automatically qualification to the 2026 World Cup tournament. While the rest team will struggle for the second place after which only one nation will qualify to play in the play off.

I confess that I was shocked when I saw that Nigeria was unable to beat South Africa. It was supposed that with the squad that Nigeria has, they would be able to qualify easily in this group. This raises the following question: could the problem not be with the coaches that Nigeria has hired? because in my opinion it seems that the Nigerian Football Federation should consider hiring a coach who has shown that he has managed to win many titles both nationally and internationally. Someone who knows Nigerian players well.

The super eagles underperformance has gone beyond expection, the most annoying part of everything is their inability to dominant the group with little competitive strength. A draw with South Africa today is never a sign they can qualify for the up coming world cup and keeping fans in a state of chaos without knowing the next thing to do.
The problem of the super eagles have gotten to a confused state  that know one could be able to identify the possible cause of the teams inability to perform when needed, looking at the issue now I think their will be need to revamp the coaching system giving room for a more competent coach to take over the team.

[BitBakerr1]

This game just ended in a 1:1 draw.

South Africa with 17 points topping the group table. Now have automatically qualification to the 2026 World Cup tournament. While the rest team will struggle for the second place after which only one nation will qualify to play in the play off.

I confess that I was shocked when I saw that Nigeria was unable to beat South Africa. It was supposed that with the squad that Nigeria has, they would be able to qualify easily in this group. This raises the following question: could the problem not be with the coaches that Nigeria has hired? because in my opinion it seems that the Nigerian Football Federation should consider hiring a coach who has shown that he has managed to win many titles both nationally and internationally. Someone who knows Nigerian players well.

To be honest before the match started I was never thinking that Nigeria will win South Africa because if you check how South Africa has been playing in the tournament you will know that they are more strong and informed than Nigeria right now they are now topping the table with the total number 17 points.
When South Africa was winning 1:0 I was thinking that Nigeria cannot equalize I was surprised to see that they equalize and then draw the match, Nigeria has a lot of world class players, players that are very informed and are doing very well in their various clubs for me the reason why Nigerian players are not doing very well when it comes to national football is because of their coach just like you said Nigerian football federation needs to sign a very good coach a coach that knows the players very well and knows how to use them if they can get a good coach then Nigeria will start playing very well right now I don't think it is possible for Nigerian to qualify for the world cup.

[Roseline492]

Another win for England. They destroyed Serbia 5-0, which was their 5th win out of 5 games played. Moreover, they haven't conceded a single goal so far. It's almost like it's too easy for them. I guess that's a good opportunity to test some new players, as there's not much at risk anymore.
If they keep it up, I won't be surprised if they are a clear favourite to win the world cup.

Declan Rice was quite good with assist today because he uses his experience to make some goals happened, he helped with the possibility of two goals even if he could not score any because Kane got his goal from his assist and the second player too that got his goal through him was Guehi, actually it was another good day for the country and also a very beautiful world Cup qualifier because there total five matches has justified there desire of going to the world Cup, is nice to see that they have gotten themselves together this time because they didn't do this the last word cup qualifier, the 5:0 was the first for them on this five matches.

[kawetsriyanto]

what an evening for Norway and Haaland.
They winning 10-1, the game is not over yet and Haaland scored 5 goals so far.

It proves that Haaland is an outstanding striker (CF). Scoring 5 goals and delivering 2 assists are quite difficult for any CF, even it is against a smaller team. IMO, he is the best striker in the world now. Well, Norway is lucky to have Haaland in their squad.

Hungary 2 Vs Portugal 3 FT
Impressive game to watch and the visitors were clearly the better team in the match of 5 goal thriller. With Ronaldo's goal tonight, against Hungary his now leveled on 39 goals with Carlos Ruiz in the men's international qualifiers and needs one more goal to the top scorer of the men's international qualifiers. What a record that Ronaldo is breaking each and every time his stepping on the pitch.

I'm not surprised if Portugal can win against Hungary. Portugal has much better squad, they have a lot of quality players. But I'm surprised the coach put Felix on the bench.   I think Portugal may win with bigger scores if Felix was put as a starter.

Well, Ronaldo scored 38 goals, it is quite easy to pass Carlos Ruiz's record 39 goals. If there is no injury problem, Ronaldo probably will be in the first place in the next match. No doubt that Ronaldo is an impressive player, he keeps breaking another record although he is 40 years old already.

It's understandable why people call Ronaldo "Penaldo". He scored another penalty goal and improved his statistics.

It is only the haters who often said "Penaldo". They think it is easy to score through penalty kick. If you have no great mentality, you are very possible to fail scoring through penalty kick. Again, Ronaldo proves his quality as an experienced and skillful player.

[Sexylizzy2813]

I confess that I was shocked when I saw that Nigeria was unable to beat South Africa. It was supposed that with the squad that Nigeria has, they would be able to qualify easily in this group. This raises the following question: could the problem not be with the coaches that Nigeria has hired? because in my opinion it seems that the Nigerian Football Federation should consider hiring a coach who has shown that he has managed to win many titles both nationally and internationally. Someone who knows Nigerian players well.

You shouldn't be surprised by all what you saw by the Super Eagles, to me the only player that didn't change or played different from what he normally plays in his club side was Lookman, he was the force of the attack and the Super Eagles needed like two of his kind in that team to continue to add pressure to the South Africa team. The boys was pretty poor in that encounter and we shouldn't blame the coach because he's not the problem but the players. I was seriously shouting out my voice due to how irritating I saw the Super Eagles played.
We're the gaint of Africa but one thing we should know is there are no underdogs any more, the smaller teams that we thought we can always beat right from the 90s are now growing, they are improving and we don't expect them to always receive the trashing of their lives from the Super Eagles.
As it is, we the Super Eagles are not improving at all and more things need to be done. Take a good look at how easy the game went for Benin, winning by 4 goals to nil and this was the same team [Lesotho] the Super Eagles will struggle with when they play again. And if you talk about hiring a new coach I'd say no because when they had a better coach they choose to let him go, talking about Gernot Rohr. He was doing well by changing the way the Eagles play but things didn't turn out how he expected.

[GiftedMAN]

The super eagles underperformance has gone beyond expection, the most annoying part of everything is their inability to dominant the group with little competitive strength. A draw with South Africa today is never a sign they can qualify for the up coming world cup and keeping fans in a state of chaos without knowing the next thing to do.
The problem of the super eagles have gotten to a confused state  that know one could be able to identify the possible cause of the teams inability to perform when needed, looking at the issue now I think their will be need to revamp the coaching system giving room for a more competent coach to take over the team.

I'm surprised that you expected Nigeria to win against South Africa in their home ground like haven't you checked the group C table before the game so that you could see the point of South Africa, when the Nigerian team was strong they could have won against them but they don't have a solid team right now so we shouldn't expect anything more than what we saw in the game. The chances of getting into the world cup is very slim now for Nigeria but if they end up not qualifying may be the NFF and the entire management will see the need to rebuild the team.

[Sexylizzy2813]

Another win for England. They destroyed Serbia 5-0, which was their 5th win out of 5 games played. Moreover, they haven't conceded a single goal so far. It's almost like it's too easy for them. I guess that's a good opportunity to test some new players, as there's not much at risk anymore.
If they keep it up, I won't be surprised if they are a clear favourite to win the world cup.

4 games out of the 5 games you mentioned I saw this very game against Serbia as the best they came out with, not all about the goals they scored but how well they played like these sets of players understood themselves more better than they did in their last 3 to 4 games. Is like the magic that happened was the new faces that joined the squad a d the Arsenal man Madueke wasn't as slow as he was at Chelsea and Arsenal, the goal he scored, the working was too perfect, like I enjoy every bit of how England played as a unit.
For now I don't think the 3 Lions have gotten to that level for we to see them as one of the top 5 countries to say that they're among the favorite to win the world cup, not yet time but we must applaud them for this display. The 3 Lions should keep it up and in no time we could be seeing them as the best or maybe the favorite.

[Sithara007]

4 games out of the 5 games you mentioned I saw this very game against Serbia as the best they came out with, not all about the goals they scored but how well they played like these sets of players understood themselves more better than they did in their last 3 to 4 games. Is like the magic that happened was the new faces that joined the squad a d the Arsenal man Madueke wasn't as slow as he was at Chelsea and Arsenal, the goal he scored, the working was too perfect, like I enjoy every bit of how England played as a unit.
For now I don't think the 3 Lions have gotten to that level for we to see them as one of the top 5 countries to say that they're among the favorite to win the world cup, not yet time but we must applaud them for this display. The 3 Lions should keep it up and in no time we could be seeing them as the best or maybe the favorite.

With 15 points from 5 matches, it is almost guaranteed that England will qualify from Group K. The race for second place is going to be between Albania and Serbia. Albania at the moment has the upper hand, and these two teams will face each other next at the Red Star Stadium in Belgrade. Apart from these three, they have two more minnow teams in this group: Andorra and Latvia. BTW, congratulations to Noni Madueke for scoring his first international goal for England. This was his 9th match for the team, and finally he scored a goal.

[Sexylizzy2813]

4 games out of the 5 games you mentioned I saw this very game against Serbia as the best they came out with, not all about the goals they scored but how well they played like these sets of players understood themselves more better than they did in their last 3 to 4 games. Is like the magic that happened was the new faces that joined the squad a d the Arsenal man Madueke wasn't as slow as he was at Chelsea and Arsenal, the goal he scored, the working was too perfect, like I enjoy every bit of how England played as a unit.
For now I don't think the 3 Lions have gotten to that level for we to see them as one of the top 5 countries to say that they're among the favorite to win the world cup, not yet time but we must applaud them for this display. The 3 Lions should keep it up and in no time we could be seeing them as the best or maybe the favorite.

With 15 points from 5 matches, it is almost guaranteed that England will qualify from Group K. The race for second place is going to be between Albania and Serbia. Albania at the moment has the upper hand, and these two teams will face each other next at the Red Star Stadium in Belgrade. Apart from these three, they have two more minnow teams in this group: Andorra and Latvia. BTW, congratulations to Noni Madueke for scoring his first international goal for England. This was his 9th match for the team, and finally he scored a goal.

I believe England are winning this group of theirs but they still need to maintain this good performance they showed against Serbia or even add more to it because where they're going they will need it and we haven't seen their opponents in the world cup group and it surely not going to be as easy as they have it now. You know, ever since England lost the Euros on penalties to Italy, the 3 Lions haven't been themselves, is like they lost themselves on that day without getting back to how good they were and it seems like Italy took something away from them. Since then they haven't been playing like a big team even with the number of good players England still have to struggle but last night we saw a different team.
And again, Madueke first goal for the 3 Lions will give him that courage to get one for his new club and you'd agree with me that Madueke has been terrible while playing for the Gunners, no force to take on defenders or even providing chances like we saw with England. He's not my favorite but I feel he can have a better playing time at Arsenal than he did with Chelsea.

[Adbitco]

Norway joins the history books of more than 10 goals scored in a World Cup qualifiers and Haaland shines again for his national contributing to more than half of the G/A in the match. One would say why is France 14 - 0 score line against Gibraltar not here, well that was in the Euro qualifiers but this is for the World Cup qualifiers.

[abhiseshakana]

Norway joins the history books of more than 10 goals scored in a World Cup qualifiers and Haaland shines again for his national contributing to more than half of the G/A in the match. One would say why is France 14 - 0 score line against Gibraltar not here, well that was in the Euro qualifiers but this is for the World Cup qualifiers.

It was a bad day for Moldova, and I think they never expected that they would concede 11 goals in this game. Luckily, they were still able to reply even though it was only one goal, but at least it broke their deadlock. In the previous match, they also lost to Israel, but they only conceded 4 goals, and even before that, they were a little better, where they only conceded 2 goals when playing against Italy. The 11-1 defeat to Norway was Moldova's worst defeat ever.

In contrast to Moldova, Norway always won in qualifying matches, and they even only conceded 3 goals and have 4 points ahead of Italy. So with this victory, their chances of qualifying for the World Cup will be even better.

[ajanwalker]

Norway broke the goal-scoring record of the night. Norway scored 11 goals, five of which came from Erling Haaland. I'm known for Moldova's successful football in recent years. Over the past 10 years, both the country's teams and the Moldovan national team have been notable for their resilient football. I'd be lying if I said this score didn't surprise me.

I expected this score from San Marino or Gibraltar, but not from Moldova.

Spain was about to employ a similar goal-scoring strategy against Turkey, but goalkeeper Uğurcan prevented six clear-cut goals. Spain also failed to capitalize on four scoring opportunities.
Sometimes such scores happen in football. Moldova made history with this score.

[Jostern]

Norway joins the history books of more than 10 goals scored in a World Cup qualifiers and Haaland shines again for his national contributing to more than half of the G/A in the match. One would say why is France 14 - 0 score line against Gibraltar not here, well that was in the Euro qualifiers but this is for the World Cup qualifiers.

When I saw the game I was just wondering why is Moldova even playing football, I didn’t watch the game but saw the scoreline and it was just shocking to me how they could play that bad in a game they should be showing some fight and resilience, And Haaland took it upon himself to score as many goals as he could score after seeing the ill trained men play football, Football is just a very different game from Handball and it obviously seems like a handball scoreline, this country’s should be banned from playing football, instead of playing this kind of football they should be banned from playing football.

[Frankolala]

The super eagles underperformance has gone beyond expection, the most annoying part of everything is their inability to dominant the group with little competitive strength. A draw with South Africa today is never a sign they can qualify for the up coming world cup and keeping fans in a state of chaos without knowing the next thing to do.
The problem of the super eagles have gotten to a confused state  that know one could be able to identify the possible cause of the teams inability to perform when needed, looking at the issue now I think their will be need to revamp the coaching system giving room for a more competent coach to take over the team.

Did you put your hope on the Eagles to win Bafana Bafana of South Africa, I wasn't expecting much from them. Assuming, Nigeria defeated South Africa, I would have been surprised and my hope in them will increase a little but they messed it up. It's left for them to accept whatever is the outcome of qualifying to the world cup next year.

[Cossyblack]

It's understandable why people call Ronaldo "Penaldo". He scored another penalty goal and improved his statistics.

But it was thanks to Ronaldo's shot that he got the penalty, and scoring a penalty goal is not an easy task. It's true that people expect Ronaldo to score more goals that aren't penalties, but it's undeniable that Ronaldo's presence in the team has helped a lot. I really admire him because at his age he still plays very well, unlike many young players who can't help their country's national team.

This game just ended in a 1:1 draw.

South Africa with 17 points topping the group table. Now have automatically qualification to the 2026 World Cup tournament. While the rest team will struggle for the second place after which only one nation will qualify to play in the play off.

I confess that I was shocked when I saw that Nigeria was unable to beat South Africa. It was supposed that with the squad that Nigeria has, they would be able to qualify easily in this group. This raises the following question: could the problem not be with the coaches that Nigeria has hired? because in my opinion it seems that the Nigerian Football Federation should consider hiring a coach who has shown that he has managed to win many titles both nationally and internationally. Someone who knows Nigerian players well.

The super eagles underperformance has gone beyond expection, the most annoying part of everything is their inability to dominant the group with little competitive strength. A draw with South Africa today is never a sign they can qualify for the up coming world cup and keeping fans in a state of chaos without knowing the next thing to do.
The problem of the super eagles have gotten to a confused state  that know one could be able to identify the possible cause of the teams inability to perform when needed, looking at the issue now I think their will be need to revamp the coaching system giving room for a more competent coach to take over the team.

I think the cause of Nigeria poor performance isn't the coach but the players themselves. Can't you see that the players aren't playing with the same energy as when there are playing in Europe. The players are holding back as there aren't giving out their very best for their home country. I also think why all of this is happening is because the super eagles aren't well motivated,so they are just playing to fulfill all righteousness.  I have learnt the hard because of that I have decided  lower my expectations to reduce further disappointment from the super eagles until I start seeing improvement on the team.

[Akbarkoe]

It seems like just yesterday I was praising Ancelotti for leading the Brazilian squad to a resounding victory over Chile, but now they have to go home empty-handed, unable to score a single goal against Bolivia. The match ended with a score of 1-0, with the home team winning.

Bolivia, who usually play at the Hernando Siles Stadium, chose to play their final match against the Brazilian national team at the Municipal El Alto Stadium, a haunted stadium that is truly a nightmare for any visiting team, including Brazil. This is because the Municipal El Alto Stadium is located at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters above sea level, with very thin oxygen levels. And of course, the Brazilian national team, accustomed to playing at lower altitudes, faced a unique challenge at the Municipal El Alto Stadium. So it’s no exaggeration to say that the Bolivian national team is a strong home team.

[Majestic-milf]

Another win for England. They destroyed Serbia 5-0, which was their 5th win out of 5 games played. Moreover, they haven't conceded a single goal so far. It's almost like it's too easy for them. I guess that's a good opportunity to test some new players, as there's not much at risk anymore.
If they keep it up, I won't be surprised if they are a clear favourite to win the world cup.

In another game, France struggled a bit to grab a win over Iceland. They got surprised with an opener from Iceland in the 21st minute, and it took them a while to respond. It wasn't a great display of converting advantage to goals by France, but a win is a win.

It's ok to call England a tricky team because you'd think that much goals mean something to them but whereas a win is just enough. I watched the game yesterday and kept wondering what went wrong with the Serbian team cause to be frank they played good football and if they had kept up the defense pressure, England would have been frustrated but it's just as if as the Harry Kane goal entered, it opened up the defense and Serbia became powerless.
 I just hope that Thomas Tuchel's men can be able to deliver like this when the world cup tournament starts.