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

[criptoevangelista]

One of the clips I've seen so far from this 2026 world Cup
?, it's a video clip where a man instead of cheering for his national team to win the match, he was rather busy feeding his eyes and brain with someone else as we all can see in the screenshot above..

Maybe this is why Brazil could not beat Morocco and that lead to me losing four different parley bets where one of the legs was Brazil to beat Morocco in their encounter last week.

This is not something I consider very serious to discuss but just for fun, I think this man will have alot of explanation to give to his wife and family when he returns back to them from the world Cup ??

Watch the clip here - https://x.com/i/status/2066438665937576149

Haha, please allow the young man to feed his eyes, who knows if his had a very stressful day and wants some distraction. The good thing about it is that it's free to look. He can look without consent but cannot touch without it. Since there's no consent to to touch let him feed his eyes afterall she purposely dressed like that to be looked at and his doing exactly that. His not the reason why Brazil couldn't win against Morocco, his not on the pitch playing but on the stands with the rest fans.

It's a classic meme scene where the cameras catch a fan doing something else, and if the cameras were always focused on the stands, we'd see all sorts of things. In any case, it has nothing to do with what a fan was doing, but rather what was happening on the pitch. As far as I'm concerned, it should have been a fairly easy match for Brazil, and lo and behold, we ended up with a draw. So the issues to analyze are on the pitch, and here Brazil is raising doubts about itself, even through betting, rather than providing concrete certainties.

Ever since the fame Paraguayan Larissa Riquelme achieved during the 2010 World Cup with a cell phone between her breasts, many women (beautiful women) will be in the stands trying their luck as well. Now, whether it will work is highly unlikely, given that back in Larissa Riquelme's day it felt more natural. Even if she was trying hard to stand out, there wasn't anyone else using that, let's say, marketing strategy hahahaha.

[martinom]

I just have to say Kudos to the goalkeeper and the entire Cape Verde players, When I saw the performance I didn't believe what I was watching in that game, and it's something that is quite unpredictable, everyone would obviously be expecting Spain to win the encounter themselves.

Spain certainly played much more offensively than Cape Verde, but what happened was simply incredible, this must make you think that the World Cup is very balanced and there isn't really a very strong team that can win against everyone easily.

[Franctoshi]

The game results in this 2026 World Cup are getting more and more unpredictable, as most of the favorite teams have failed to beat their underdog opponents and lots of game results had ended up with draws. I think gamblers who are able to gain profits from wagering in this year World Cup would truly be the master of sports gambling as I personally are having a hard time trying to achieve winnings from my bets but sadly most of my sports bets did ended up with a loss instead.

Honestly, I'm struggling to make predictions in the games as teams who should do better are being caught up by smaller ones and are held to a draw. Imaging Spain being held down by a team with the smallest population in this WC. Something that should have been a easy win. I'd keep saying it that big teams will find it really hard to have their way against smaller ones and yesterday's results proved it.
In yesterday's games, it was just Ivory coast and Sweden that recorded wins in and it's Sweden and Germany that have scored the higher numbers of goals.

Four matches were drawn in one day, it is unbelievable in the history of the World Cup. The betting and results of the gamblers have become more unpredictable. I lost both bets yesterday. What we mean by small teams is very less effective in the current context because yesterday's match between Spain and Cabo Verde ended without any result. The match between New Zealand and Iran was drawn and the matches between Belgium and Egypt and Uruguay and Saudi Arabia were without any result.

Highly unpredictable world cup season, and in this year's world cup competition, we're having way more number of draws than expected, even with most big teams also playing draws, Brazil , Belgium, Uruguay and Spain, I lost my very first slip, and out of the three games I predict two out of it has already played a draw, only waiting for Portugal outcome, in the other second slip, Brazil drew, Uruguay drew, Spain drew as well. Strange results, slip already lost.

[yudi09]

Vozinha, the man who kept Spain at bay in an entire 90 minutes match, the man who stood in front of goal and denied Spain lots of scoring opportunities after they passed the defence, he was the last man between them scoring or not. His the man who made Spain share a point, something they didn't expect, his also the reason why Spain, it's fans and those that gambled in favour of Spain are all in pains even till now. Not to take away what the defenders did too, because the defence was rock solid. The defending was too notch, they didn't break, they were all as a unit. They knew they were no match for Spain, so they used there only weapon against them, which is to defend. The goalkeeper was so incredible in the match that he was voted man of the match and he won the award in the match. You can imagine winning the the man of the match award in a competition against Spain as an underdog.

I watched for the full 90 minutes to see how Vozinha saved Cape Verde’s goal. Vozinha’s alertness and speed in reading Spain’s attacking movements only became apparent to me when he tried to close down the space to catch the ball as Cucurella advanced. Vozinha thought Cucurella would pass the ball to the center or in front of him, but Cucurella didn’t do that. Anyone who watched the entire match surely saw that moment.

Over the 90 minutes, I counted about 27 shots by Spain, 7 of which were on target, and all of them were stopped by Vozinha.
Vozinha became the talk of the town after the match ended in a draw. He is already 40 years old, and his performance reminded me of Buffon. Vozinha was aided by Cape Verde’s two solid center backs, who helped him repel attacks even though he was Cape Verde’s last line of defense.

[Tmoonz]

Vozinha, the man who kept Spain at bay in an entire 90 minutes match, the man who stood in front of goal and denied Spain lots of scoring opportunities after they passed the defence, he was the last man between them scoring or not. His the man who made Spain share a point, something they didn't expect, his also the reason why Spain, it's fans and those that gambled in favour of Spain are all in pains even till now. Not to take away what the defenders did too, because the defence was rock solid. The defending was too notch, they didn't break, they were all as a unit. They knew they were no match for Spain, so they used there only weapon against them, which is to defend. The goalkeeper was so incredible in the match that he was voted man of the match and he won the award in the match. You can imagine winning the the man of the match award in a competition against Spain as an underdog.

I must confess it was really incredible, seeing a 40 years old man winning the award Man of the match on a stage where we've got players like, Lamine Yamal and the rest, it was quite unbelievable but it did happen anyways, that's why I keep saying self discipline always pays off, he was so determined not to concede a goal in that match, and he actually made it happen by have 6 good saves, which was absolutely out of the picture, like truth be told it was a well deserved award, and in an instance he's life changed automatically, he was actually having 45,000 followers, but after the game with his performance he's now having 2 million and above followers, amazing.

[blue Snow]

I don't really know what's going on with some top teams in the World Cup now. How can Spain literally draw with Cape Verde 0-0?

I saw someone putting $1m on Spain on Polymarket to make a profit of $85k. That's an insane kind of risk and it has failed!

Many people are disappointed in Spain for failing to secure a victory against a smaller team, one that was actually making its World Cup debut. I can’t imagine how the people who placed big bets on Spain must feel, having ultimately lost a lot of money because their bets didn’t pay off.

I’m also confused about what’s going on with the top teams, they should be able to secure easy wins against smaller teams, yet they’re drawing instead. So far, only Germany, as a top-tier team, has managed to secure a win; the rest have drawn.

[SilverCryptoBullet]

Many people are disappointed in Spain for failing to secure a victory against a smaller team, one that was actually making its World Cup debut. I can’t imagine how the people who placed big bets on Spain must feel, having ultimately lost a lot of money because their bets didn’t pay off.

I’m also confused about what’s going on with the top teams, they should be able to secure easy wins against smaller teams, yet they’re drawing instead. So far, only Germany, as a top-tier team, has managed to secure a win; the rest have drawn.

They did not score any goal against Cape Verde and it's unlike they scored goals and failed to secure that advantage for a win eventually. Cape Verde had an excellent match in defense while Spain lacked of enough ideas and attacking solutions in this match to break the defensive bunker of all Cape Verde players. It's how football works, a team can be stronger and expected to win, win easily or big, but during a match, only a team that play better and manage to score winning goals can take three points.

It's not Spain for this match while Cape Verde simply feel absolutely happy with a draw and a point got from Spain. As a very small nation and a first ever World Cup experience, it's a true milestone for their national team history, so congratulations Cape Verde.

[Shishir99]

I found this meme on facebook and laughed a lot. I can imagine thier feeling to be honest. We have seen some unexpected results already in the first few days. Argentina started their worldcup with a loss last year, but they became champion. We may see more unexpected result this year. All the fans should be ready for unexpected results. When Saudi arabia scored a goal first yesterday, I thought they will win the match. But they ended up with a draw yesterday. Brazil ended with a draw against Morocco. Now it's time for Argentina and Portugal, which has iconic players.

[Volgastallion]

Well yesterday was more and more of what we were seeing in the previous days and this is the best teams struggling a lot against the weak teams, for example and to not mention Spain and Uruguay, we can see into the Iran game, Iran alwasy beat New Zealand and all the teams in the asian qualifiers but seems like in this world cup they failed.

[rdluffy]

I'd like to know about all the people who harshly criticized the increase in teams in the World Cup, claiming that the games would be horrible to watch, with terrible national teams, and that nobody would watch them 

The teams from Haiti, Cape Verde, and Qatar showed great effort and provided a great moment for football, with a great spirit of overcoming adversity. The experience these teams gained is invaluable
This could be the World Cup with the most surprises
I'm happy to have seen these results

But very sad to lose almost all my bets hahaha 

[Pjcr7]

Lots of crazy statistics we are seeing in this world cup, Mikel Oyarzabel played for an entire 30 minutes without touching the ball, for the record his not a Cape Verde player who were all defending their goal, his a Spanish player. His team mates were all with the ball almost all the time and I'm wondering how on earth he didn't touch the ball not even for once did he touch it in that entire 30 minutes. Was he sleeping in the box of Cape Verde? because if he wasn't how come he didn't touch the ball. As the team on offence there's no way the ball won't get to you, this is like a mystery to me and if this didn't come out, no one will have noticed it.

Again Cape Verde in the whole of 90 minutes fouled Spain just once, it's still hard to believe also that a defending team only fouled the offensive team just once in the whole 90 minutes. Crazy statistics we are getting here.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Spain certainly played much more offensively than Cape Verde, but what happened was simply incredible, this must make you think that the World Cup is very balanced and there isn't really a very strong team that can win against everyone easily.

Spain played very well and were attacking from the start of the match. Even then they could not break the defenses of Cabo Verde. There was no shortage of effort from spain's players.

We have to admit that Cabo verde played fantastically in this match. Their target was not to  concede a goal. They did not make any attempt  to score. All players were  defenders in this match and resisted spain's attacks. Spain's players could not score a single goal despite  20+ shots. Cabo Verde's goalkeeper Vozinha's performance  surprised everyone. It was because of Vozinha that cabo verde was saved from certain defeat

[Fiatless]

Imagine how the cost of a US visa has denied Vozinha and his mother this golden opportunity to celebrate. Hugging and celebrating with his mother would have been a cherished time, but it didn't happen because of the cost of securing the visa. Congratulations to Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha. His followers on Instagram rose from 50,000 to 6.3 million in 24hours.

[B-BossMan]

I found this meme on facebook and laughed a lot. I can imagine thier feeling to be honest. We have seen some unexpected results already in the first few days. Argentina started their worldcup with a loss last year, but they became champion. We may see more unexpected result this year. All the fans should be ready for unexpected results. When Saudi arabia scored a goal first yesterday, I thought they will win the match. But they ended up with a draw yesterday. Brazil ended with a draw against Morocco. Now it's time for Argentina and Portugal, which has iconic players.

😆 lol..... these are actually the 3 stars or let me say the FiFA world cup hunters of the season, Messi will definitely try his best to still be the world best or champions of all time again, well the both of them or the three of them are a real Goats. Christiano Ronaldo has been working so hardly to be able to lift the FiFA world cup in the last season, but Messi didn't let it be, now I know many fans are hoping for these three key players to either work hard this season and change the storyline. Mbappe is also trying to some extent, same goes to Messi but I will prefer the Christiano Ronaldo to lift this season's FiFA world cup. Indeed they really need to pray with consistency and work hard to achieve thier goals towards this season FiFA world cup.

[Stable090]

Many people are disappointed in Spain for failing to secure a victory against a smaller team, one that was actually making its World Cup debut. I can’t imagine how the people who placed big bets on Spain must feel, having ultimately lost a lot of money because their bets didn’t pay off.

Most people never believed they not going to get a win in the match, but it’s surprising that they ended up getting a draw in the match. I don’t even think people will place bet on Cape Verde to win the match, or the match to end as draw. How will they draw their first match, and they played against a small country, it’s really a great disappointment, and lots of people lost money just because of them.

They just have to improve their performance in their subsequent matches, Cape Verde is not even a country that they are suppose to find difficult to win, lots of people are not going to be so confident to bet on them in their next match, just because of their performance against Cape Verde.

[liasbaa]

I just have to say Kudos to the goalkeeper and the entire Cape Verde players, When I saw the performance I didn't believe what I was watching in that game, and it's something that is quite unpredictable, everyone would obviously be expecting Spain to win the encounter themselves.

Spain certainly played much more offensively than Cape Verde, but what happened was simply incredible, this must make you think that the World Cup is very balanced and there isn't really a very strong team that can win against everyone easily.

Spain played aggressively or brilliantly, but the truth is that they could not get any points in the match. Cape Verde are literally a newcomer to the World Cup and they challenged and resisted the experienced team. I think the newcomer's mission was successful and they will probably play more impressively and achieve great results in the future.

[vs2014]

Spain vs Cape Verde match was one of the biggest surprises of this World Cup that we ever imagined. People generally expected Spain to dominate and score some goals against their opponent as Cape Verde supposed to be weaker item. but Cape Verde incredible discipline and defensive strength totally destroyed people's hope. Spain usually controlled the ball most of the time & they had many chances, but unfortunately they failed to find the finishing touch. The other three matches ending with draws on the same day which were also unexpected. Teams that were expected to win, struggled to secure the draw lol. It shows that no team can be underestimated in this World Cup

[chinhar]

I just have to say Kudos to the goalkeeper and the entire Cape Verde players, When I saw the performance I didn't believe what I was watching in that game, and it's something that is quite unpredictable, everyone would obviously be expecting Spain to win the encounter themselves.

Spain certainly played much more offensively than Cape Verde, but what happened was simply incredible, this must make you think that the World Cup is very balanced and there isn't really a very strong team that can win against everyone easily.

I couldn't believe what I saw either! This World Cup is off to an unpredictable start. It was easy to see which teams dominated easily, especially from the initial groups, but I really didn't expect Spain to draw. This makes me think that no team should be ruled out of this World Cup.

[ibuddy122505]

I just have to say Kudos to the goalkeeper and the entire Cape Verde players, When I saw the performance I didn't believe what I was watching in that game, and it's something that is quite unpredictable, everyone would obviously be expecting Spain to win the encounter themselves.

Spain certainly played much more offensively than Cape Verde, but what happened was simply incredible, this must make you think that the World Cup is very balanced and there isn't really a very strong team that can win against everyone easily.

Cape Verde shocked the football world by earning a historic draw against Spain in their first ever FIFA World Cup match. Their goalkeeper was outstanding. We've felt that Spain were playing against one person for the entire 90 minutes. This was a reminder that no team, no matter how strong, can afford to underestimate an opponent. If Cape Verde keep performing like this, they are going to be a very difficult team to break down in this tournament.

[SFR10]

Today we have an interesting game, France against Senegal. I see France winning this game; it will be a test for France because Senegal is not weak, and I hope France doesn't underestimate them.

Considering that most of the Senegalese players have either played in top European leagues or still are and the fact that they once defeated them in the World Cup, it makes me believe France won't underestimate them... I also think this is one of those games that will finally have a winner, as opposed to all these surprise draws ^{[based on the quality of the attacking players in both teams, I'm predicting a win for France (over 2.5/BTTS)]}.