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

[Charcol]

Brazil is better by a lot then Scotland and with an early goal by Vini,Brazil has now a huge advantage and Scotland needs to attack now and this will be their chance to attack from a counter attack. The things are intresting now with Haiti leading the match and this makes the group a lot more intresting because now Haiti has the chance to grab that third place they just need to wait for Brazil to score more goals against Scotland.

Morocco literally dominated the game in all aspects and missed many opportunities.

Haiti played well for most of the first half of the game. Haiti put Morocco under pressure with goals from the start of the game. But Morocco played much better in the last 15 minutes of the second half. Haiti was ahead from the start of the game but then in the 39th minute,Morocco player Acharaf Hakimi scored to equalize. In the 43rd minute, Wilson Isidor gave Haiti the lead with a great strike and they stopped there. But after that, Morocco played more strongly. And in the end,Morocco won by scoring three goals in a row in the 45th/78th/89th minute.

[BlackBoss_]

I'm curious to see how Brazil are going to play against some more serious teams because these kind of victories are always very useful to boost the morale but, to be honest, Scotland played a very poor World Cup, they even struggled to beat Haiti. The only real match was against Morocco and they have been lucky they didn't lose because Morocco deserved to win.

Scotland need one point to secure their position but they made defensive mistakes and lost to Brazil with a big result. This result is bad for Scotland because losing 0 - 3 makes goal difference worse for Scotland but the match finished already, and Scotland only can wait for results of other groups to see will they be in 8 best third teams.

This world cup tournament is becoming so tough, Brazil has now started playing their Brazil kind of football now and this shows how ready they are for this tournament. Carlo Ancelloti is a master planner. The way he used Vinicious Junior tonight showed that Vinicious Junior can actually do well as a false 9th position too. He was supposed to score three goals to make his Hatrick if not for the VAR call that made the referee to cancel his second goal. Scotland ruined their game with unnecessary mistakes that were all avoidable and it has cost them their direct qualifications.

Carlo Ancelotti is a very good coach with his successful career in many clubs and domestic leagues as well as winning 5 UEFA Champions League titles in his coach career. He is a head coach who can harmonize star players, combine them together in a team, that makes a team strength and he is also famous with his ability of enlightening career of some players like Pirlo. Seasons played under management of Ancelotti actually revised career of Pirlo, and with many reasons, it's why Brazil decided to assign their national team's head coach position to Carlo Ancelotti.

Vinicius got very first three matches in World Cup 2026 and beat all criticisms against him before this tournament. The comeback of Neymar is emotional for him and fans but certainly Neymar want to contribute more for his national team this summer, and will try to win a trophy.

[Sithara007]

South Africa scored a goal just now, and that puts Republic of Korea in a position of bother. If the lead stays till the end of the match, then South Africa will end up with 4 points, while Korea will trail them with 3 points. And since they only have 3 points, it will be difficult for them to qualify for the knockout stage as one the best 3rd placed teams (many of the 3rd placed teams have 4 points each). Overall, the CAF teams (especially Morocco and Egypt) have performed better than AFC teams so far in this tournament. And this justifies the FIFA decision of granting more qualifying sports to CAF in comparison to AFC.

[laijsica]

This world cup tournament is becoming so tough, Brazil has now started playing their Brazil kind of football now and this shows how ready they are for this tournament. Carlo Ancelloti is a master planner. The way he used Vinicious Junior tonight showed that Vinicious Junior can actually do well as a false 9th position too. He was supposed to score three goals to make his Hatrick if not for the VAR call that made the referee to cancel his second goal. Scotland ruined their game with unnecessary mistakes that were all avoidable and it has cost them their direct qualifications. Morocco won Haiti too to maintain a strong second place behind Brazil despite lagging behind initially. Haiti is leaving the tournament with 0 points and Scotland will be hoping on the chances of the best loosers to see if they can proceed to the next stage. Congratulations Brazil and Morocco.

I'm curious to see how Brazil are going to play against some more serious teams because these kind of victories are always very useful to boost the morale but, to be honest, Scotland played a very poor World Cup, they even struggled to beat Haiti. The only real match was against Morocco and they have been lucky they didn't lose because Morocco deserved to win.

I am not very optimistic about Brazil going forward. They have good players but they are not playing as fast as I would expect from them. Scotland's form in the World Cup warm-up matches was relatively good but the performance of the players has not been impressive recently. They lost the match against Morocco and also lost the match against Brazil by a 3-0 goal difference. There was a lot of talk about the star player of the Brazilian team Neymar but Ancelotti gave him a chance to come on the field in the 76th minute of the match but he did not get the expected performance.

[Solokan]

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Vinicius performed exceptionally in today's match, scoring 2 goals against Scotland. Cunha also performed well in today's match, scoring 1 goal against Scotland. Brazil has now defeated Scotland 0-3 and earned 3 points. It's a shame Scotland couldn't beat Brazil because Brazil's strength is better than Scotland's. Brazil has now collected 7 points and finished 1st in Group C. Of course, Brazil will definitely qualify for the next round. Brazil must be ready to face a stronger team. Of course, Ancelotti must be able to get the Brazilian players to perform even better in the upcoming matches.

Fortunately, in this match, I won my bet because I chose Brazil. Do you guys feel the same way? Now Scotland has to accept the fact that it has lost to Brazil and of course now there is still a chance for Scotland to be able to play in the next round as long as Scotland can consistently win in the fight for the best 3rd place. What do you think, will Scotland be able to advance to the next round?

[Sithara007]

South Korea finished at 3rd place in Group A. And the worst part is that they only have 3 points. So far, Bosnia and Herzegovina have advanced to the knockout stage as they have 4 points. But Korea need to wait, and see how many points will the other third placed teams get. BTW, we have quite a few exciting matches for tomorrow. Australia will take on Paraguay. A draw will ensure that both the teams qualify for the knockout stage. And that will be the perfect irony. Republic of Korea failing to qualify for the knockout phase, and Australia making it. BTW, I just noticed that Stake has given 1.14 for Côte d'Ivoire for their match against Curaçao. 97% of the bets are in favor of Côte d'Ivoire. Given their performance so far, I believe that Curaçao can possibly pull off a draw (7.60 in Stake) or even a win (17.00).

[Bitcoin_people]

Vinicius Junior is in great form for Brazil, he scored 4 goals in three matches, leading the team to victory and qualifying for the round of 32. Brazil won against Scotland today by 3 goals, and they were able to collect three points. However, in today's match, most people bet on Brazil and they won. I think if Brazil consistently uses their strengths and plays with everyone's agreement and coordination with the players, then they can definitely go far in this World Cup. Moreover, since their coach is so experienced and if he plays with good tactics, he can definitely build a strong team.

[Gallar]

Haiti played well for most of the first half of the game. Haiti put Morocco under pressure with goals from the start of the game. But Morocco played much better in the last 15 minutes of the second half. Haiti was ahead from the start of the game but then in the 39th minute,Morocco player Acharaf Hakimi scored to equalize. In the 43rd minute, Wilson Isidor gave Haiti the lead with a great strike and they stopped there. But after that, Morocco played more strongly. And in the end,Morocco won by scoring three goals in a row in the 45th/78th/89th minute.

You are absolutely right,, my friend; even though Morocco won this match, Haiti’s performance was truly impressive. Although they didn't dominate the entire game, they played very well in the first half and really put Morocco under pressure. That is a significant achievement,, considering Morocco is such a formidable team managing to put them on the back foot even for just one half is excellent.

However, it is now certain that Haiti has failed to advance to the next round of this World Cup, as they are currently sitting in fourth place. Consequently, the teams from Group C guaranteed to move forward are Brazil and Morocco. As for Scotland, I’m not entirely sure if they will qualify. While there is a path for some of the best third placed teams to advance, I don't know if Scotland is among the contenders. Since they currently have only three points,, their chances of qualifying seem slim. What do you all think?

[Tamaperdana]

Finally,, after a first match that ended in a draw, Portugal has bounced back by defeating Uzbekistan by a landslide score of 5-0. I think this is a truly remarkable achievement,, because in this match the Portuguese players performed with greater confidence and played exceptionally well.

Did Portugal perform extremely well or did Uzbekistan perform bad because I will like to see how this same team will do against a bigger opponent. I know Portugal won the game by a convincing scoreline but I'm not yet convinced because I see that they had an easy opponent a game that they were clearly expected to win and they must have had the confidence to just come out and get the results. It's an interesting goal that Ronaldo scored and it is good for him and Portugal in this World Cup but let us hope that they do not get knocked out early else we would have to look forward to another year.

It is certainly true that in this match, Portugal is facing a team that isn't particularly strong; so, you might be right. To be truly convinced, however, we really need to wait for Portugal to play against Colombia. Colombia is currently in good form and managed to beat Congo in their recent match. That is why I believe this upcoming match will reveal Portugal's true performance level—especially since they only managed a draw against Congo previously.

If they can defeat Colombia, it will clearly demonstrate that Portugal is performing well right now. Of course, if Portugal loses again in this World Cup, we could simply wait for the next edition; however, by then, Ronaldo would likely be quite old and most probably retired from football. That is why I feel this World Cup is the moment when Ronaldo and Portugal need to secure a victory—it would be a fantastic achievement if Ronaldo could win it now. So, let’s just wait and see whether or not Portugal can win this competition.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

South Africa scored a goal just now, and that puts Republic of Korea in a position of bother. If the lead stays till the end of the match, then South Africa will end up with 4 points, while Korea will trail them with 3 points. And since they only have 3 points, it will be difficult for them to qualify for the knockout stage as one the best 3rd placed teams (many of the 3rd placed teams have 4 points each). Overall, the CAF teams (especially Morocco and Egypt) have performed better than AFC teams so far in this tournament. And this justifies the FIFA decision of granting more qualifying sports to CAF in comparison to AFC.

And luckily for south Africa, they managed to secure their side from conceding any goals from the south Korea side and that ended the match with them winning by 1 goal..
I am not surprised anyway because south Korea isn't known to be a great football playing nation though I was expecting them to at least score a goal against South Africa, but maybe the reason they didn't score was because too many goals didn't come to the match and the only one that came had already been taken by South Africa.

So this win for South Africa simply means they have qualified for round of 32 while south Korea lost that qualification. So south Africa will be playing against Canada next, can they beat Canada? Well, definitely possible but I don't think it will happen.

[Sithara007]

Vinicius Junior is in great form for Brazil, he scored 4 goals in three matches, leading the team to victory and qualifying for the round of 32. Brazil won against Scotland today by 3 goals, and they were able to collect three points. However, in today's match, most people bet on Brazil and they won. I think if Brazil consistently uses their strengths and plays with everyone's agreement and coordination with the players, then they can definitely go far in this World Cup. Moreover, since their coach is so experienced and if he plays with good tactics, he can definitely build a strong team.

Vinicius Junior has made sure that no one is even talking about Neymar now. He is just behind Lionel Messi for honour of the top-goal scorer of this tournament. On the other hand, Neymar is hardly getting any time on the field. During the match against Scotland, he came to the filed at the 75th minute and didn't had any impact on the match even after that. During the knockout phase, Brazil will face the Runner-up from Group F. IMO, it may be Japan (or Sweden, if they can defeat Japan today). Brazil started the tournament in a horrible manner, but they are improving over the time.

[teddybear]

Surprising loss for South Korea in the hands of South Africa. Korea started off with a weaker team expecting a fairly easy win but that didn't happen at all and instead had to bring in a few starters as soon as half time ended but it didn't help. South Africa were fairly comfortable and capitalised on their building momentum, scoring in the 2nd half and then playing Haram ball, tucked in defending for their dear lives. This has completely flipped the script for group A. People expected Mexico and South Korea to be top 2 and then Czech coming in 3rd.

[Sexylizzy2813]

I am not very optimistic about Brazil going forward. They have good players but they are not playing as fast as I would expect from them. Scotland's form in the World Cup warm-up matches was relatively good but the performance of the players has not been impressive recently. They lost the match against Morocco and also lost the match against Brazil by a 3-0 goal difference. There was a lot of talk about the star player of the Brazilian team Neymar but Ancelotti gave him a chance to come on the field in the 76th minute of the match but he did not get the expected performance.

Scotland are not match for Brazil, they have some quality players but not up to the standard to make Brazil work very hard in that encounter just like Morocco did when they played this same Brazil, to me Scotland are already out before this last game they played, the squad is too weak for this competition. I also expected Brazil to be very fast in their style of play but it wasn't what we are seeing currently and that fast approach in games have been what made them to be the best team in the world and a difficult opponent to play against, that energy is nowhere to be found and when we talk about the favorite we'd include them but now they are trying something different because they don't have the players to carry out that past performance of the national team.
Bringing Neymar is like giving him an opportunity of making his presence known to those who asked questions like why is he not playing because he knows, I mean the coach Ancelotti knows they have already pass the test of advancing into the next round and this is just for him to maybe warm up against their next game, like we know how injury have weaken his performance so he just need to get him into the field to shake some weight off because inviting him without playing him would be wrong.

[mikel_012]

Vinicius Junior has made sure that no one is even talking about Neymar now. He is just behind Lionel Messi for honour of the top-goal scorer of this tournament. On the other hand, Neymar is hardly getting any time on the field. During the match against Scotland, he came to the filed at the 75th minute and didn't had any impact on the match even after that. During the knockout phase, Brazil will face the Runner-up from Group F. IMO, it may be Japan (or Sweden, if they can defeat Japan today). Brazil started the tournament in a horrible manner, but they are improving over the time.

Neymar only played that game because Brazil was very far ahead with 3 goals. They do not want to risk losing him in a though match where his situation can get worse before he even gets good enough to play and help the team

But be sure that he will play the next knockout phases if he is needed and nothing Brazil does is working. He can get a magic play out of nowhere with his creativity and this is where he stands from other players

And this was his first game in a long time, more than 900 days without playing with the brazilian shirt. He needs to get in the game first

[Ale88]

Vinicius Junior is in great form for Brazil, he scored 4 goals in three matches, leading the team to victory and qualifying for the round of 32. Brazil won against Scotland today by 3 goals, and they were able to collect three points. However, in today's match, most people bet on Brazil and they won. I think if Brazil consistently uses their strengths and plays with everyone's agreement and coordination with the players, then they can definitely go far in this World Cup. Moreover, since their coach is so experienced and if he plays with good tactics, he can definitely build a strong team.

Vinicius Junior has made sure that no one is even talking about Neymar now. He is just behind Lionel Messi for honour of the top-goal scorer of this tournament. On the other hand, Neymar is hardly getting any time on the field. During the match against Scotland, he came to the filed at the 75th minute and didn't had any impact on the match even after that. During the knockout phase, Brazil will face the Runner-up from Group F. IMO, it may be Japan (or Sweden, if they can defeat Japan today). Brazil started the tournament in a horrible manner, but they are improving over the time.

I mean, did you see Neymar's condition? He was barely running. He has been constantly injured during the last years, he barely played any game. I'm sure Ancelotti called him up just as an insurance because if Brazil get eliminated without Neymar everybody would have said that with Neymar things would have gone differently (even thought it's not true considering his condition).

[Stormisover]

Brazil is better by a lot then Scotland and with an early goal by Vini,Brazil has now a huge advantage and Scotland needs to attack now and this will be their chance to attack from a counter attack. The things are intresting now with Haiti leading the match and this makes the group a lot more intresting because now Haiti has the chance to grab that third place they just need to wait for Brazil to score more goals against Scotland.

Morocco literally dominated the game in all aspects and missed many opportunities.

Haiti played well for most of the first half of the game. Haiti put Morocco under pressure with goals from the start of the game. But Morocco played much better in the last 15 minutes of the second half. Haiti was ahead from the start of the game but then in the 39th minute,Morocco player Acharaf Hakimi scored to equalize. In the 43rd minute, Wilson Isidor gave Haiti the lead with a great strike and they stopped there. But after that, Morocco played more strongly. And in the end,Morocco won by scoring three goals in a row in the 45th/78th/89th minute.

It would have looked so embarrassing if Morroco had lost or drew with Haiti in that game, because those people are nothing compared to Morroco, to be I just believe those teams mainly made it to the world cup for just point booster, has they even won any match in this tournament? That early goal didn't move because I knew too well there's no way that game was even gonna end draw in favor of Haiti, Morroco is one of the African teams I expected to move this group and far beyond, then what would have been my fate if they had Drew or lost to those guys, anyways kudos to them they still gave me the hope to believe more on them in this tournament.