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

[Muba20]

I agree with your statement that Argentina is too sweet to reach the semifinals, some of the opponents they faced were not really favored, but seeing the match earlier, Argentina was really overwhelmed by facing this debutant country, Cape Verde, I know many are talking about this country, especially with their goalkeeper whose performance was really stunning and they also deserved to get applause from the stadium.

The players from Cape Verde have already made history for their country. How they performed wasn’t just as debutants to fill the increased number of participants. They played well, and maybe even better than some of the Asian representative teams. They proved their quality, showing that it wasn’t just luck that got them this far in the World Cup.

Cape Verde should go back home with pride and never a feeling of defeat, it was truly a remarkable performance and they all deserve an applause. Messi was really held down in that match and could barely see the back of the net as the keeper kept every ball away from the post.

It is certain that clubs would be coming for that keeper after the end of the match but his age could stand as a major barrier. It is painful to see that such great talent was realised at a retirement age and was never noticed, really the irony of football. Argentina should stand firm in the coming matches as this game was a test of their resilience, maybe a bigger opponent could mean a different result.

Cape Verde has certainly left the World Cup with pride. Their performance showed how much beauty football has. The kind of performance Cape Verde has done in this World Cup is something that many big teams have not been able to do. Argentina is still known as the world champion team so it is never easy to play against them. Cape Verde played the entire 120 minutes with enough competition. Cape Verde is more known for their goalkeeper but their goals in this match were extraordinary. Changing the attack plan in an instant and attacking and defending around the ball the whole time made Argentina nervous for a while.

You are right, this match was a prediction of how terrible Argentina's next matches can be. Watching Vozinha, you can understand that talent never fails. Fate gives talent its real respect even at the last moment. Vozinha has engraved his name in the list of world-class players.

[Mayor of ogba]

I was surprised to see Cape Verde push Argentina so hard last night. Messi with a phenomenal goal, he is having such a great tournament. I do wonder how Argentina will cope when they play a top side, they haven’t been fully convincing.

Canada vs Morocco and Paraguay vs France tonight, I am looking forward to the games.

I never expected Cape Verde to raise the bar so high against Argentina and made them wait until extra time before they were able to win. I rated France and Argentina to be the best teams in this World Cup so far because I haven't seen any reason to place Argentina above France or place France above Argentina. But after Argentina got exposed last night by Cape Verde, I now see France as the best team so far in this tournament and they are the favorite to lift the World Cup. Messi is amazing in this tournament, he scored against Cape Verde lead the World Cup top scorer chart.

[skarais]

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In my opinion, Canada and Morocco are two completely mismatched teams in terms of strength. It's easy to picture the Canadian national team in the quarterfinals of the Ice Hockey World Championship, but not at the Mundial. Morocco, on the other hand, can be considered one of the world's top national teams, as they reached the semifinals of the last World Cup and played successfully against Brazil in this tournament. Canada has not faced an opponent of this caliber yet in the competition. Therefore, I believe that Morocco's skill level and experience in the knockout stage will help them advance to the quarterfinals.

Morocco does have a chance of qualifying for the next round, but I don't think it will completely wipe out Canada's chances. Canada also have a chance and I think they can also play well as before, but there are some other factors that might make these two teams have different probabilities. The depth of the squad is one of the few factors that sets these two teams apart, but Canada's performance at this World Cup wasn't too bad either.

So far we've actually seen Canada put Yassine Bounou to work a little hard in the first 10 minutes. I think this is one of the things that makes Canada not to be underestimated even though Morocco has good players.

[l99l]

Our hearts are with Cape Verde they gave us a fantastic match yesterday.
If they had faced a slightly weaker team instead of Argentina, they would have qualified. What a great fight they put up, and that equalizer in extra time gave us great hope again. The goal was magnificent, and its significance was even greater because it came in extra time. After the equalizer, Argentina immediately tried to score again, they kept pressing and somehow found the winning goal.

[PremiumcryptoHub]

The match that Argentina played was really an amazing match. Cabo Verde put up a great fight in the match, for a small team that they played the match so well, it was really amazing, I have to pay tribute to the goalkeeper of Cabo Verde, Vozinha, he has really proven himself to be one of the best in this World Cup. Some of Argentina's shots were very good, Vozinha saved them brilliantly, his saves were really amazing. However, in the end, Argentina have won the match, but Cabo Verde played the match very well, there was no lack of effort.

Actually Argentina faced a tough obstacle because I think they had the hardest time in this round of 32 match against Cabo Verde in this 2026 World Cup. This team's goalkeeper in particular was the most dangerous today against Argentina because we noticed that despite this goalkeeper being much older, he performed perfectly against Argentina and prevented many shots. However, looking at Argentina's performance today, it seems that they could be even weaker in the Round of 16 because they were struggling to win against a team like Cabo Verde but still, they won dramatically in the final stages of this FIFA World Cup match.

[Shadiq]

there’s one hour left until the canada - morocco kicks off. although morocco is the favorite in this match, i think betting on morocco to win is risky because i believe the game could go into overtime. one thing morocco and canada have in common is that both teams have scored in every match they’ve played so far. even if they don’t win every game, they still manage to score somehow, and i think both teams will score in this match as well, even if there aren’t many goals. that’s why i think betting on both teams to score makes more sense than betting on a specific winner.

When betting on this kind of games, you will have to be smart and know what you are doing so you don't take unnecessary risk that could make you lose more money than you have ever expected. Gambling on the world cup have so many options we can bet on and it's not necessary that we bet on who to win the match or who to lose. Their are other options like number of goals, penalty, goalkick, who to qualify, and other options that can reduce our possiblity of losing easily when gambling.

I consider any bet in the knockout stages of the World Cup to be very risky. As the situation changes, the behavior of the players also changes. We can even see goalless matches. Although both teams have scored in every match so far, today's match is completely different. Maybe we will see a goal from one of the teams today, BTTS may not be a good choice to bet on. The main reason for this is Morocco's strong defense and their goalkeeper. Canada also has a strong defense, but I don't think their defense is stronger than Morocco's defense. The result of the match may end 2-0 and the winner will be Morocco.

[BitcoinHunt3r]

In my opinion, Canada and Morocco are two completely mismatched teams in terms of strength. It's easy to picture the Canadian national team in the quarterfinals of the Ice Hockey World Championship, but not at the Mundial. Morocco, on the other hand, can be considered one of the world's top national teams, as they reached the semifinals of the last World Cup and played successfully against Brazil in this tournament. Canada has not faced an opponent of this caliber yet in the competition. Therefore, I believe that Morocco's skill level and experience in the knockout stage will help them advance to the quarterfinals.

Well, this match has been going on for about 10 minutes and so far nothing has stood out but yeah I agree with you that Morocco deserves to be the favorite. I'm not underestimating Canada but their only strength is as a home team so it can help increase their confidence. I hope this match doesn't end in a draw so there is no penalty shootout because Canada chances could be higher if it goes through penalties, imo. By the way, unfortunately whoever wins this match will probably face France we know that it is not a good choice because France is the main candidate to win the tournament. Moreover, Kylian Mbappé is obsessed with winning the top scorer title so he will do everything he can.

[cakir1]

They faced three giants in the tournament and performed incredibly well against all of them. They drew against Spain, Uruguay and now the world champions. This is their first world cup but it took the defending champions a whole lot of times to luckily edge against them.

This is definitely the best way to exit a tournament of this kind and never to chicken out like a nation that doesn't know what if feels like playing in the world cup. They've surely announced themselves and in the coming years, it's going to be easier for them to replan and come back even better.

Argentina's has been relatively lucky to have faced a team that lacks experience and as the defending champions, you sure want to give in your all and and keep believing that you're capable of winning a newbie in the league. This is just were they took hold of and waited till the extra time before getting the win. For Argentina, it's going to be a much deficult task going against a much deficult side in the round of 16.

There is no doubt that with this level of performance, this small country with a population of 550,000 living in West Africa stuns the soccer world and hits hard on many elite countries like Spain, Uruguay, and Argentina with their performance. Now people will be talking about them for a long time.

No one was sure about them, how they would perform, and what kind of game was going to be watched, but they gave us an amazing feeling about their country and soccer. Now surely people will wait for them in the 2030 World Cup due to their consistency and performance.

Even if many players are not available, they could still be watched. Argentina and Messi surely feel tired with this game and performance from Cape Verde.

[Salahmu]

With what happened against Argentina yesterday, I think it's necessary to stop betting on low odds. I was quite shocked to see Cape Verde level score and even give them a tough time. After Argentina's massive performance in this World Cup tournament, they couldn't put a smile on bettors faces yesterday.

Without being told, I know that bettors bet in favor of Argentina, but it went the other way around. Honestly, I think France might likely experience the same thing tonight if care isn't taken, because right now they are still the favorites in this game. Anyway, let's see how it goes.

Low odds was were the beginning of losses started till now because low odds has failed more than high odds to win on this world cup, however I'm not saying for certain but I noticed people avoided betting on winning options a lot on this world Cup because other options are most of the winning I have seen more. On Messi goal what I liked about it was how he utilizes the pass and how he scored it, actually that was my favourite scoring from him. Paraguay have never won France but instead they're the ones who have had a lot of beaten both on the world cup and there other match from France so I'm not expecting different thing.

[M47AK16]

if Cape Verde had actually eliminated Argentina, reality would’ve broken down. it would’ve been 100% confirmed that we’re living in a Matrix style simulation. but the agents of the system stepped in and rigged the round for Argentina.

The game was rigged it was a fair match. The referee who officiate that match was very transparent,he was fair and he didn't favour one side over the other. If you say the referee blew in the favour of Argentina I don't think so because I watched the match they was no partiality in it. Argentina were much surprised and same time under pressure to win the game they were for that OG because the game would have ended in a penalty shootout it would have been a 50/50 probability for them to win.
Cape Verde goal keeper should have be awarded the best player of the match he truly deserve it because if it wasn't for his incredible saves, Messi would have scored cape Verde many goals.

I doubt that, I have watched the full game, and there was nothing wrong with the goals and nothing wrong with the calls, it was a fair game to me. I resect anyone who thinks otherwise, there were many games I believed was corrupted too, everyone has that idea about certain games.

To me for example, Croatia had a very fair goal that got disallowed and they could have won but failed to win because of that corruption, but that is my idea, and I do not think that everyone thinks that way, some disagree with me. Which is why I agree that it is not really that easy, and it may not be simple to expect everyone to think the same way. So if you think this game was not fair, I respect it, I do not agree with it though because I think Argentina played well enough to win.

[Shineup]

I agree with your statement that Argentina is too sweet to reach the semifinals, some of the opponents they faced were not really favored, but seeing the match earlier, Argentina was really overwhelmed by facing this debutant country, Cape Verde, I know many are talking about this country, especially with their goalkeeper whose performance was really stunning and they also deserved to get applause from the stadium.

The players from Cape Verde have already made history for their country. How they performed wasn’t just as debutants to fill the increased number of participants. They played well, and maybe even better than some of the Asian representative teams. They proved their quality, showing that it wasn’t just luck that got them this far in the World Cup.

Cape Verde should go back home with pride and never a feeling of defeat, it was truly a remarkable performance and they all deserve an applause. Messi was really held down in that match and could barely see the back of the net as the keeper kept every ball away from the post.

It is certain that clubs would be coming for that keeper after the end of the match but his age could stand as a major barrier. It is painful to see that such great talent was realised at a retirement age and was never noticed, really the irony of football. Argentina should stand firm in the coming matches as this game was a test of their resilience, maybe a bigger opponent could mean a different result.

Cape Verde has certainly left the World Cup with pride. Their performance showed how much beauty football has. The kind of performance Cape Verde has done in this World Cup is something that many big teams have not been able to do. Argentina is still known as the world champion team so it is never easy to play against them. Cape Verde played the entire 120 minutes with enough competition. Cape Verde is more known for their goalkeeper but their goals in this match were extraordinary. Changing the attack plan in an instant and attacking and defending around the ball the whole time made Argentina nervous for a while.

You are right, this match was a prediction of how terrible Argentina's next matches can be. Watching Vozinha, you can understand that talent never fails. Fate gives talent its real respect even at the last moment. Vozinha has engraved his name in the list of world-class players.

If there's any African countries that are to be applauded in this year FIFA world cup I think that should be Cape Verde, like this guy's actually gave the world the biggest shock in this year FIFA world, and make Africans believe if the Europeans can do it, so can Africans do it also, I'm very proud of them despite the fact they've left the tournament, no doubt Argentina won the game and qualify for the next round, but deep down Cape Verde won our hearts, it's their first time in the competition and they pulled such a great stunt, and in that game this morning I think the officiating was bias, but it's all good, we've long expected it even before the game started.

[GiftedMAN]

Our hearts are with Cape Verde they gave us a fantastic match yesterday.
If they had faced a slightly weaker team instead of Argentina, they would have qualified. What a great fight they put up, and that equalizer in extra time gave us great hope again. The goal was magnificent, and its significance was even greater because it came in extra time. After the equalizer, Argentina immediately tried to score again, they kept pressing and somehow found the winning goal.

They won the hearts of football fans across the globe in a night that they lost a World Cup knockout game against reigning champions Argentina after a very impressive performance. I honestly don't think we will see such a performance from a team that's ranked below #60 in the FIFA rankings again.
Argentina were just lucky to win the game, not because they were the better team. Cape Verde will leave the tournament as the most loved team

[Wakate]

I consider any bet in the knockout stages of the World Cup to be very risky. As the situation changes, the behavior of the players also changes. We can even see goalless matches. Although both teams have scored in every match so far, today's match is completely different. Maybe we will see a goal from one of the teams today, BTTS may not be a good choice to bet on. The main reason for this is Morocco's strong defense and their goalkeeper. Canada also has a strong defense, but I don't think their defense is stronger than Morocco's defense. The result of the match may end 2-0 and the winner will be Morocco.

I have different bets on this match which I know that even though we don't see outcome like over 1.5 in this match, ther could be other simple options that may not have a very big odd. When on this year world cup had made so many people to lose their money and it's not funny at all. The best thing we can do is for us to use simple sportbook options that may not have a big odd on this match.
I know that anything can happen and if Morroco failed to play very well and score, the match can end up in a draw or Canada will win.

[Just Say]

Cape Verde was underestimated at the beginning of this competition, what I mean here is even before the match started they all thought that Spain will perform fantastically in the group stage. Cape Verde surprise every football fan all over the world because they perform excellently and now even Spain we have a piece of mind because Argentina can also say something about Cape Verde. Their exit was fantastic one, they did not go like other teams because they stood firmly to challenge any opponent they come across and almost all of them have something to say about them.

Cabo Verde definitely played amazingly because we never imagined that this team would perform so aggressively against the former world champions, in fact watching this team play, it seemed like they were a very experienced team. However, Argentina won the Round of 32 match but it must be said that they faced a tough test, i also think that Cabo Verde's performance in this FIFA World Cup was at a high level because this team did not lose a single match in the group stage and they drew against Uruguay and stunned the world by drawing against Spain in their first match of this World Cup. Besides Argentina has already managed to reach the round of 16 but it seems to me Cabo Verde's form in today's match was top notch.

[ndutndut]

Our hearts are with Cape Verde they gave us a fantastic match yesterday.
If they had faced a slightly weaker team instead of Argentina, they would have qualified. What a great fight they put up, and that equalizer in extra time gave us great hope again. The goal was magnificent, and its significance was even greater because it came in extra time. After the equalizer, Argentina immediately tried to score again, they kept pressing and somehow found the winning goal.

Cape Verde played with a relaxed attitude and as a result they delivered a compelling performance. Their defenders confidently controlled the ball in their own half several times, even goalkeeper Vozinha who was very confident in his possession even dribbled past Argentine players.

If there were a rookie of the tournament award, Cape Verde would be the deserving recipient. Their fighting spirit wasn't indicative of a small nation making their World Cup debut, let alone facing the defending champions, Argentina. Although they ultimately lost, they returned home with their heads held high. They fell behind twice, equalized twice and both goals were impressive.

Cape Verde deserves the highest respect, and their struggles will be remembered for years to come. When I think of Cape Verde struggles in this World Cup, I'm reminded of Costa Rica's struggles in the 2014 World Cup, as these two countries faced similar challenges.

[jakdanyel]

Morocco are performing horrible at the moment and I don't know why... Saibari got injured unfortunately and had to be subbed off. But I don't think it's mostly because of that.

0.02 xG is just like a nightmare against Canada...    They were actually serious favourites for the win in this match. I would like to see Morocco reaching further this point. They should fire themselves up at halftime.

[Unsoldier]

I didn't expect Morocco to play so weakly in the first half, but the Canadian national team completely took control of the game and is dominating the match. Perhaps the Moroccan players gave all their strength and emotions in the match against the Netherlands. On top of that, they picked up as many as 4 yellow cards in the 1st half, and Saibari got injured and left the pitch. It is very unexpected to see such a weak performance from the Moroccans. If Canada continues to press the opponent's goal like this in the 2nd half, they could very well advance to the next round of the championship.

[Joca97]

Morocco are performing horrible at the moment and I don't know why... Saibari got injured unfortunately and had to be subbed off. But I don't think it's mostly because of that.

0.02 xG is just like a nightmare against Canada...    They were actually serious favourites for the win in this match. I would like to see Morocco reaching further this point. They should fire themselves up at halftime.

I really want to see Morocco get eliminated just because of the way they are playing no other reason. They are just defending not even trying to attack and it is making me crazy,was expecting goals and there is none currently. Canada is playing openly and wants to attack and is trying at least and currently they are a better team. Overall i think Canada will win this match and go into the next round and i really wish that can happen.

Saibaris injury is a big hit for Morocco but the way they are playing now even if he didnt get injured he wouldnt have helped them at all because they cannot make a single attack.

[Smack That Ace]

Morocco are performing horrible at the moment and I don't know why... Saibari got injured unfortunately and had to be subbed off. But I don't think it's mostly because of that.

0.02 xG is just like a nightmare against Canada...    They were actually serious favourites for the win in this match. I would like to see Morocco reaching further this point. They should fire themselves up at halftime.

Both teams were almost equally strong. So I thought the match would be very competitive. But we can see very slow  gameplay in this match. We did not see anyone attacking much. In the first half, Canada was able to have only 33% ball possession. And only  4 shots. On  the other hand, despite having  67% ball possession, morocco's players were able to have only 1 shot.

In the second half, both teams will  probably change their tactics. If they play  like this, the match will definitely end goalless. This  is a knockout round match. So both  teams should try to finish the match in 90 minutes.

[Woodie]

Morocco are performing horrible at the moment and I don't know why... Saibari got injured unfortunately and had to be subbed off. But I don't think it's mostly because of that.

0.02 xG is just like a nightmare against Canada...    They were actually serious favourites for the win in this match. I would like to see Morocco reaching further this point. They should fire themselves up at halftime.

Very horrible game play from them, and this isn't the way they play.. don't even remember seeing them have a shot at goal , that's how bad the game is if it wasn't the worldcup I would have said this is match fixing but Canada just playing better here..

Just hope the second half will be much better for them because this is already pointing to a goalless game and possibly penalties.. can we have some action today..