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

[Fiatless]

Ivory Coast almost caused an upset last night. When you look at the stats of the match, Norway didn’t lead by much difference. This is why I don’t recommend gambling on World Cup games, I thought it was going to be an easy win for Norway considering they have Erling Haaland in the lineup, and they rested their best players against France to prepare for this match. I’m eager to see how Norway will do against Brazil, it’s hard to call it a win for Norway even though Brazil has been a shadow of their former self in this World Cup.

Sweden lost to France by three goals to none. The three African sides that have been knocked out of the competition lost by one goal difference. All of them proved that they got something to offer in this World Cup. Ivory Coast came back from one goal down but Haaland scored the decisive goal.

I had high expectations that DR Congo will hold on to that single goal till the end. But it turned out that the English side was tactically better. Thomas Tuchel prepared his side for the second half, and it yielded a result with the brace from Harry Kane.

[M47AK16]

Wow, what a match, France vs Sweden is finish now! The final result is 3-0 for France, very big win for them. France was much much better team, they have crazy possession and control all game, Sweden only try counterattack but no good. First goal score Mbappe in 45 minute, very nice shot before halftime. Then in second half, Barcola score for 2-0 in 53 minute. Sweden tried but Mbappe score again in 74 minute and boom, 3-0. France look so strong! Now France go to next round and they will play against Paraguay. Sweden is out of World Cup. Let see if France will handle Paraguay, but I think they are able to fight for title this year.

Yes, France played an extraordinary game, and this certainly made French fans happy because their team won against Sweden. The 3-0 score was a good score and indicated that France was ready for the next match in the round of 16. I also have a feeling that France has the potential to win against Paraguay in the round of 16, and it seems I will also have the potential to favor France when betting on that match. Do you feel the same? And what do you think the score will be in that match?

Indeed, currently, many predict that France is one of the strong candidates to become champions, but we'll just have to see what happens. What is clear is that there are still other strong teams that will certainly try to prevent France from becoming champions, such as Argentina.

To be fair, the first half I was not sure if France was going to win or not. I think it looked like they were about to have some trouble because on the first half they did not looked good at all and it got very close and head to head. But then second half things changed very quickly, and they started to be doing a lot better, and suddenly they started to win. I know that it is not going to be all that easy of course to see this, we are not going to know how they are going to play, so betting was tough when live, but thankfully I had moneyline on France.

[katanic97]

Ivory Coast almost caused an upset last night. When you look at the stats of the match, Norway didn’t lead by much difference. This is why I don’t recommend gambling on World Cup games, I thought it was going to be an easy win for Norway considering they have Erling Haaland in the lineup, and they rested their best players against France to prepare for this match. I’m eager to see how Norway will do against Brazil, it’s hard to call it a win for Norway even though Brazil has been a shadow of their former self in this World Cup.

Sweden lost to France by three goals to none. The three African sides that have been knocked out of the competition lost by one goal difference. All of them proved that they got something to offer in this World Cup. Ivory Coast came back from one goal down but Haaland scored the decisive goal.

I had high expectations that DR Congo will hold on to that single goal till the end. But it turned out that the English side was tactically better. Thomas Tuchel prepared his side for the second half, and it yielded a result with the brace from Harry Kane.

Without Harry Kane in the team, it would have been very difficult for England to achieve anything more in this match. DR Congo showed everyone how to play for the national team and what kind of players they really have. Putting in such a strong performance against an experienced England side is a huge achievement. I hope we'll see them regularly in future tournaments.

[Yabani]

Belgium entered the match as the favorite, but in the opening 15 minutes, I can see that Senegal is also eager to advance. Courtois made a mistake, but Sarr wasn't expecting the ball and couldn't get a clean shot off; it hit the post and fell right back to him, yet he still failed to connect effectively.
Senegal has been the better side in the 16 minutes played so far.
It’s shaping up to be a great match. We could see plenty of goals.

[pawel7777]

Ivory Coast almost caused an upset last night. When you look at the stats of the match, Norway didn’t lead by much difference. This is why I don’t recommend gambling on World Cup games, I thought it was going to be an easy win for Norway considering they have Erling Haaland in the lineup, and they rested their best players against France to prepare for this match. I’m eager to see how Norway will do against Brazil, it’s hard to call it a win for Norway even though Brazil has been a shadow of their former self in this World Cup.

I think gamblers tend to underestimate non-European teams, thinking that if European clubs are better than the rest, the same would be true for national teams, but the truth is that most players of non-European national teams would play in European clubs.
Bookies knew that it wouldn't be an easy game for Norway, and the odds were fairly even, with Norway being the slight favourite.

That being said, as a holder of a long-term (small) bet for Norway to win the World Cup, I was a bit disappointed with their performance. I expected more dominance from them. A win is a win, but getting through Brazil might be a mission impossible.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Well football is very unpredictable and anything is bound to happen, but I can’t think of any team beating France in this World Cup.

France is the team I see as most prepared to win this World Cup. The only team that could perhaps stop them would be Argentina; they are the most solid team I've seen. I feel a bit bad about Portugal because they have envious players who don't pass to CR7 and they have a strange style of play that I don't see as good. However, for me, France is the best-organized team right now. I don't know about England; let's wait and see what happens.

[meser#]

In my opinion, Senegal is the France of Africa. Just like France, they are playing better football with each passing day. They scored against Belgium, and Senegal is the team playing the better football.
I think Senegal is proving to everyone why they are the African champions.
We were the ones who eliminated Senegal with a golden goal in the 2002 World Cup. I don't recall them making such significant progress since then.
I expect Senegal to reach at least the semi-finals.
I’ve noticed that African teams are more energetic and resilient in this World Cup; Morocco and Senegal are the two best examples of this.

[SmartCharpa]

A big congratulations to England at least they have save so many person betting ticket even mine too. England has put so much energy in the second half to secure their round of 16, it wasn't easy for them i believe at some point they never believed that Dr Congo will be going to give them a hard game, two goals from Kana in the second half gave England an important win it was indeed an excellent come back, Dr Congo played unexpectedly.

Big congratulations to England as they won the game! At first, it was in the favor of DR Congo as they scored the first goal in the game, not until the second half when Kane scored the equalizer goal. In a few minutes, Kane scored another goal, which was the reason why they won the game. Now, they have made it to the round of 16 to face Mexico, so it will be a nice game for them. But they still tried today, no doubt on that. Once again, congrats to England.

It was a difficult game for England against DR Congo, I said it before the game that I wouldn’t be surprised if Congo score against England. I don’t like the way England attacks look like they are tired after playing just three games in the World. England attackers find it difficult to convert their chances into goal since scoring three goals against Croatia in the first game. They couldn’t even get a goal against Ghana and look at how they struggled to win today.

England will face Mexico in the round of sixteen, they need to improve in term of converting their chances into goal. Mexico has never concede a goal in this tournament, they were able to get four clean sheet in four games. Congo was leading the match since 7 minutes into the match, England was lucky to turn it around in less than 30 minutes to finish the match.

[Jaycoinz]

Well football is very unpredictable and anything is bound to happen, but I can’t think of any team beating France in this World Cup.

France is the team I see as most prepared to win this World Cup. The only team that could perhaps stop them would be Argentina; they are the most solid team I've seen. I feel a bit bad about Portugal because they have envious players who don't pass to CR7 and they have a strange style of play that I don't see as good. However, for me, France is the best-organized team right now. I don't know about England; let's wait and see what happens.

Oke thing I know about football is that it never fails to disappoint and also turn up with lots of surprises for people because gambling as been around for some time and in almost an the times they is guarantee that the game of football is filled with surprises.

As for France national team, they have everyone and other opportuniy to win the world cup but everything doesn't work the way prediction where dropped.

[KingsDen]

England performed very well and Congo also performed very well, I was actually thinking that England will be out from the World Cup today, Kane is the savior of today for England he now has 5 goals now, wonderful performance from Kane. He has done very well for his country. He has stepped up as usual, the last goal he scored was a very wonderful goal I never saw it coming.
Congratulations to England.

England's game today was just like a replicate of Brazil vs Japan, they both had to struggle to come from behind, this shows that no team should be underrated when it comes to world cup games. I also thought England would exit the World cup just like their fellow top european team, but Harry kane had other plans, he really saved his country.
A brace for Harry kane books a spot for England in the Round of 16. Congo will surely be disappointed, they were so close to creating history for themselves and also Africa.

The big names are making their presence felt in the world cup. Haaland rescued Norway by scoring the winning goal, Mbappe scored a brace as well, now Kane scored a brace and including the winning goal. I am sure we are going to see more surprises and dramas.

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I think gamblers tend to underestimate non-European teams, thinking that if European clubs are better than the rest, the same would be true for national teams, but the truth is that most players of non-European national teams would play in European clubs.
Bookies knew that it wouldn't be an easy game for Norway, and the odds were fairly even, with Norway being the slight favourite.

That being said, as a holder of a long-term (small) bet for Norway to win the World Cup, I was a bit disappointed with their performance. I expected more dominance from them. A win is a win, but getting through Brazil might be a mission impossible.

I agree with you, even though other non-European countries are not very strong as national teams, if we look at most non-European countries here, two to four players from each team play in European leagues. As a result, these players can also create good resistance against strong teams at times.
And I think in this case, in most of the matches of this World Cup, we can see almost such a situation that strong teams are drawing matches with weak teams or even losing matches. Even in the match between Norway and Ivory Coast, I thought Norway would achieve a lot but they could not do that, they had to go through a lot of struggle to achieve against Ivory Coast. And did England face the same situation today?

[pawel7777]

Some of the World Cup games turned out to be a bit boring, as teams are overly cautious and like to focus on defence, but England Vs DR Congo wasn't one of them. It was a nice, high-pace game with both teams actively looking to score and with both having great chances.

Who knows how the game would go if Congo's Wissa didn't waste his great chance and scored for 2-0.
England also wasn't the luckiest in terms of converting, and you could argue whether they deserved a penalty after Kane went down in the penalty area, but they had plenty of time to make up for that goal lost in the 7th minute and they bounced back to win 2-1.
Another great performance by Harry Kane. It was his 5th goal in the tournament and England is still in the game, so there's a chance he can become the top scorer. I believe he's in negotiations with Bayern over extending his contract, so now he has an even stronger negotiation position.

[abhiseshakana]

But I really take my hat off to Congo. I’m really looking forward to seeing more from this team in the next World Cup. Because I’m sure they’ll be back in the next World Cup, possibly with even better quality.

Congo has everything to be great champions, but they failed in their physical condition, that's why they couldn't withstand the pressure. After they conceded the second goal, they started looking for the equalizer, but it wasn't like that. It was difficult because they had to make other changes, and when they made those changes, the whole game changed. Many more weaknesses appeared, and that's why the guts appeared, and besides, Harry Kane seems like an alien.

To be honest, I didn’t expect England to secure such a dramatic victory , as I’d initially thought they’d win this match easily, but it turned out that Congo put in such a good performance in this match. Congo really had all the England supporters on the edge of their seats , and, quite unexpectedly, they managed to score just moments after the match had started. England tried to make up the deficit , but Congo put up such a strong fight, and the Congo goalkeeper was in impressive form in this match.

There’s no denying that England have great mental strength and composure , so their play seems to be gradually improving, and when the chances come, they’re able to score their goals . What a dramatic comeback that was.

[Cryptoprincess101]

I saw that a lot of people played DR Congo to score against England and the odd was around 2:40 which is higher than playing England to win. Despite that DR Congo lost, they fought a good fight. England was lucky that Harry Kane rescued them by scoring the winning goal because if they had played full-time draw and entered the extra time, they would have probably enter into penalty shootouts and get eliminated by DR Congo. Two African teams that shocked us with their performance in this world cup is DR Congo and Cape Verde.

In my opinion, Senegal is the France of Africa. Just like France, they are playing better football with each passing day. They scored against Belgium, and Senegal is the team playing the better football.
I think Senegal is proving to everyone why they are the African champions.
We were the ones who eliminated Senegal with a golden goal in the 2002 World Cup. I don't recall them making such significant progress since then.
I expect Senegal to reach at least the semi-finals.
I’ve noticed that African teams are more energetic and resilient in this World Cup; Morocco and Senegal are the two best examples of this.

I don't have much confidence in Senegal reaching the semifinals because their performance in the group stages was very bad, if not that they met a weak team in their third match they would have joined other African teams that has been eliminated already. Senegal don't have that level of tactical performance like Morocco so even if they send Belgium Packing, they won't stay above the quarter final round if they are not knocked out in the round of 16.

[Majestic-milf]

So far, no one has been able to stop France progress, advancing through each phase with incredible intensity. Imao, France chances of being a title contender are greater than any other team right now. In the round of 16, they'll face Paraguay. A team that doesn't actually have much of an advantage, but after defeating Germany, their optimism has grown. France must also be careful to stay focused and serious against Paraguay.

That's true. So far, no one has been able to give them much problems but I feel going forward, it won't a walk in the park for them and there's every possible chance that Mexico will give them challenge.
Senegal are leading at the half and it's another African team that has taken the lead at the break, let's just hope they don't end up like DR Congo who couldn't maintain their win over England.
Belgium played carelessly in the first half and I hope we'd see something better in the remaining 45 minutes.

[juttsab@]

There is a lot of excitement surrounding the 2026 FIFA World Cup matches because we noticed that both teams faced a lot of obstacles in the match between the Netherlands and Morocco. To be honest Morocco was the favorite to win that Round of 32 match, in fact as far as I know,  this African Morocco team achieved a lot of success in the last World Cup. However it was a bit surprising that when this match was decided on penalties, one of PSG's most reliable players, Achraf Hakimi, missed the penalty, actually after a tough competition, the African nation of Morocco managed to emerge victorious and it seems to us that they have found an easy opponent in Canada in the Round of Sixteen.

Morocco did it again against the Netherlands . Morocco put pressure from start and got 70% possession overall. 1.38xG , 5 big chances created and 11 shots. The Netherlands with 30% possession,0.24xG created 1 big chance and 6 shots. For Netherlands Gakpo struck first in the 72nd minute and Morocco equilized in the injury time 90+1 beautiful header by Issa Diop . The match went to extra time but didn't manage to separate these two teams. On penalties Morocco scored 3 and Netherlands scored 2 . Bono with golden hands saved a penalty and led his team to RO16. Verbruggen was named as player of the match for Netherlands for his incredible saves during the games and penalties

[famososMuertos]

To be honest, I didn’t expect England to secure such a dramatic victory , as I’d initially thought they’d win this match easily, but it turned out that Congo put in such a good performance in this match. Congo really had all the England supporters on the edge of their seats , and, quite unexpectedly, they managed to score just moments after the match had started. England tried to make up the deficit , but Congo put up such a strong fight, and the Congo goalkeeper was in impressive form in this match.

There’s no denying that England have great mental strength and composure , so their play seems to be gradually improving, and when the chances come, they’re able to score their goals . What a dramatic comeback that was.

They were saved because they had Kane.

Senegal is playing very well; let's hope they don't continue with the "naive" approach of trying to manage the result. Although my bet is on Belgium; it's great for football to see another African team in the round of 16.

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[Davidvictorson]

The France vs Sweden match was an interesting one. It was obvious that the French side was the dominant one from the start of the match. The Swedish side tired to put forth a fight but I think towards the end of the second half, they just completely gave up. As for the man of the match I give it to Oliseh, he was outstanding. Congratulations to Mbappe on being the highest goal scorer so far. The French team is one that I am confident can face Argentina and give them a run for their money.

But I really take my hat off to Congo. I’m really looking forward to seeing more from this team in the next World Cup. Because I’m sure they’ll be back in the next World Cup, possibly with even better quality.

The Congolese team was fabulous.
They have their defense to thank especially their goalie. Unfortunately the defense fell apart towards to end of the match. I don’t know if they gave up or something. Anyways, they should be happy with themselves that they gave their all.

[AYOBA]

It was a difficult game for England against DR Congo, I said it before the game that I wouldn’t be surprised if Congo score against England. I don’t like the way England attacks look like they are tired after playing just three games in the World. England attackers find it difficult to convert their chances into goal since scoring three goals against Croatia in the first game. They couldn’t even get a goal against Ghana and look at how they struggled to win today.

England was so luck and late goal of Kane have really helped them to dominated the game if not by now they’ve been out of the tournament, but to be honest the way England play today against DR Congo look very unserious if they use the is same pattern of playing in their next game their going to suffer from honest, they wasted a lots of chances if not they where supposed to equalize back since from the first half of the game.

England will face Mexico in the round of sixteen, they need to improve in term of converting their chances into goal. Mexico has never concede a goal in this tournament, they were able to get four clean sheet in four games. Congo was leading the match since 7 minutes into the match, England was lucky to turn it around in less than 30 minutes to finish the match.

With the way their today match goes I’m expecting their next match against Mexico to be more tough than today own against DR Congo, because Mexico are also a strong country they really need to be more improve if they want to win that their upcoming match.

[Crypto Library]

Senegal are leading at the half and it's another African team that has taken the lead at the break, let's just hope they don't end up like DR Congo who couldn't maintain their win over England.
Belgium played carelessly in the first half and I hope we'd see something better in the remaining 45 minutes.

Even after the 53 minutes the Belgium team couldn't make any recovery even they ate one more goal from the Senegal so the Senegal team is not only leading at the first half they were already showing the control after the break time also.

If we talk about keeping the ball position, then here too Senegal is not far behind Belgium and I see Senegal as more active in terms of attacking. So, apparently, I think that Belgium, although strong, will lose this match to Senegal and their World Cup journey will end here.