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

[Ruttoshi]

Watching this game right now, France looks like a tire team as they are finding it difficult to keep up with the pressure of the Spanish team, most of their passes are not accurate and they lose possession easily. Mbappe doesn’t seem to look lively in this game probably because he’s the target man. Spain creates far more chances and I think they deserved to win this game considering the way they are playing. Spain is already 2 goals up and I don’t think France can get a single goal in this game.

France is already out of the game because there's no miracle that they can perform to give them two goals in two minutes since we have just two minutes left.

Spain took the bold step to hold the bull on the horn without any fear. Spain the European champions are now in the finals. What a great team Spain has currently.

[$crypto$]

What happened to France?? The game became chaotic, many players are easily provoked emotions, while Spain the game remains solid now scored 2 goals, impossible for France to catch up.

It is true that the H2H record is still valid between these two teams, which France still does not move in front of Spain even though we think France is better, proving now that Spain deserves it.

[mikel_012]

Watching this game right now, France looks like a tire team as they are finding it difficult to keep up with the pressure of the Spanish team, most of their passes are not accurate and they lose possession easily. Mbappe doesn’t seem to look lively in this game probably because he’s the target man. Spain creates far more chances and I think they deserved to win this game considering the way they are playing. Spain is already 2 goals up and I don’t think France can get a single goal in this game.

Spain was absolutely dominating France. In the early game the many star players like Olise and Dembele could not do anything, they disappeared completely from the game. Mbappe also did not score any of the crazy goals he scores when no one is expecting

I do not know if the game would be too different if the penalty did not happen in the first half. Maybe this is why the french players were in shock and could not do anything, or maybe today was not the day for the players that always look so dominating

I know everyone expected France to win the world cup because they were by far the most organized and strongest team, and now they lose like this

[leonair]

What happened to France?? The game became chaotic, many players are easily provoked emotions, while Spain the game remains solid now scored 2 goals, impossible for France to catch up.

It is true that the H2H record is still valid between these two teams, which France still does not move in front of Spain even though we think France is better, proving now that Spain deserves it.

Spain's performance was great, especially the Spanish goalkeeper did an outstanding performance. He saved the ball very hard. Beating France 2-0 to reach the final was a great achievement for Spain. To be honest, I was a France supporter but I was surprised by Spain's performance. France played like crazy in the end. Mbappe got a yellow card for fouling the goalkeeper. There were a lot of expectations from Mbappe but he could not show a good performance today. Congratulations to Spain for reaching the final

[Bobrox]

What happened to France?? The game became chaotic, many players are easily provoked emotions, while Spain the game remains solid now scored 2 goals, impossible for France to catch up.

It is true that the H2H record is still valid between these two teams, which France still does not move in front of Spain even though we think France is better, proving now that Spain deserves it.

Finally Spain success destroying many prediction favorite France will lead to the final, Spain playing well since the early minutes success dominance the match and most important the defense players of Spain success make high pressure for the attacking players of France get difficulty for this match for scoring goals. Marc Cucurella playing quite well how many time success blocking attempt from Kylian Mbappe and Dembele, II believe many sport betting get loss today after placing bet for France but Spain not favorite team success lead to final.

Next semifinal match England vs Argentina, the defending champion on pressure position after France eliminate at semifinal round will get the same for Argentina? just to know last edition France success qualifying to semifinal round and Argentina will beat by England too?

[promise444c5]

Au revoir France.
A few minutes left to go and it looks like Spain are the ones that will make it through to the final.
I haven't been watching the game and just tuned in, and I'm not going to lie, I'm surprised by the result.

If Spain pulls it off, they will probably be the favourite to win in the final.

They did already..

You didn’t miss anything too much. It wasn’t really a tough game because of the early goal from Spain , just a total shit show from France tonight.. not a  boring game either .

I’m sure a lot of people didn’t really expect Spain to win tonight but here we are seeing them qualify to the finals by defeating the country which we thought they are the best with a margin of 2 goals  

[nikola22]

What happened to France?? The game became chaotic, many players are easily provoked emotions, while Spain the game remains solid now scored 2 goals, impossible for France to catch up.

It is true that the H2H record is still valid between these two teams, which France still does not move in front of Spain even though we think France is better, proving now that Spain deserves it.

yes, Spain turned out to be a very difficult opponent for France. but there are many ways to lose and today France lost almost without a fight. there was no speed or desire to score. Mbappe and Dembele were completely lost on the pitch. France couldn't even mount a final assault on Spain's goal.

[Soonandwaite]

i didn’t expect that at all. Spain were absolutely brilliant and ran their hearts out. the team fully deserve to be in the final. France’s superstars didn’t stand a chance today.  no matter who wins tomorrow... Spain are now my favourites to win the World Cup. where were Mbappé, Dembélé, Olise and the other stars today?
sorry... but I didn’t see a single French star today. 

[Ummeettaa]

Massive congratulations to the Spanish side, it was a good fight from the Spanish side as they took on the French side and earn themselves a spot in the finals of the 2026 FIFA world cup.

It was an unexpected win for the Spanish team, most people expected France to qualify for the finals because of their attacking trio. But I kind of expected this to happened because Spain has more experience players than the French players.

Congratulations to my boys Lamin Yamal, Dani Olmo, Pay Cubasi, Pedri, Gavi, Garcia (G), Eric, Ferran Torres and the entire Spanish side for their qualifications to the finals of the 2026 FIFA world cup.

[Jaycoinz]

Au revoir France.
A few minutes left to go and it looks like Spain are the ones that will make it through to the final.
I haven't been watching the game and just tuned in, and I'm not going to lie, I'm surprised by the result.

If Spain pulls it off, they will probably be the favourite to win in the final.

They did already..

You didn’t miss anything too much. It wasn’t really a tough game because of the early goal from Spain , just a total shit show from France tonight.. not a  boring game either .

I’m sure a lot of people didn’t really expect Spain to win tonight but here we are seeing them qualify to the finals by defeating the country which we thought they are the best with a margin of 2 goals  

Indeed a shit show is the right term to describe the performance that this French team out on tonight, it was absolutely shameful and like the multitude, I also expected France to win but the previous records indicate and shows that Spain is always a thorn in the flesh for France as they always find it hard winning them and history proofs it again tonight as they knocked out France once more, now we wait to see if England or Argentina will get to meet Spain.

[PremiumcryptoHub]

Spain scored their second goal, and France has suffered a psychological collapse. Yamal just scored a third, but it was disallowed for offside. The ball with the embedded chip is even faster than VAR when it comes to offside calls. At this rate, these chipped balls might render VAR obsolete.
If France keeps playing like this, they’re going to concede a third or even a fourth goal.

Am so impressed with the performance of Spain tonight because i never expected that they will play France in such an intelligent way. The defense of Spain is in a magnificent form tonight, they are not allowing France to gain access. I can't believe that France is yet to get a shot on target. I don't think that France can do what Argentina did to Egypt by conceding 2 goals and coming from behind to win at full-time. The match has already approached 80 minutes so there is no hope for France which means that their world cup journey will end tonight. How i wish that England will just win Argentina so that we can have Spain versus England at the final.

Spain played aggressively against France in tonight's semi-final match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and I'm surprised they were able to perform so intelligently. However, we predicted that last year's runner-up team France would probably beat Spain in this match as they were undefeated until the quarter-finals this season, anyway in today's match, Spain took the lead after scoring from a penalty in the 22nd minute and from then on, the team moved towards victory. I noticed that today after the Spanish team scored a goal in the 58th minute, the French team became more tired and it's probably something everyone noticed that players like Mbappe were ineffective in today's semi-final match.

[Powerjumboo]

Au revoir France.
A few minutes left to go and it looks like Spain are the ones that will make it through to the final.
I haven't been watching the game and just tuned in, and I'm not going to lie, I'm surprised by the result.

If Spain pulls it off, they will probably be the favourite to win in the final.

They did already..

You didn’t miss anything too much. It wasn’t really a tough game because of the early goal from Spain , just a total shit show from France tonight.. not a  boring game either .

I’m sure a lot of people didn’t really expect Spain to win tonight but here we are seeing them qualify to the finals by defeating the country which we thought they are the best with a margin of 2 goals  

Yes, most people expected and predicted that France would win today and France would play very well. And very few people predicted that Spain would win, but among them, I was already predicting that Spain would win because my favorite team was Spain and I had been supporting it since I was very young. In fact, only those who can perform well on the field of play will win. Many of us thought that France was so strong, but in fact, even though they are strong, they could not perform well against Spain today. Anyway, sympathy for France, maybe we will see each other in the next World Cup and congratulations to Spain for reaching the final.

[Sexylizzy2813]

France has been shown the exit door in the FWC with one of the worse performance I have ever seen since I started watching the France national team play. I think something left the France national team tonight that they could not get any shot on target until the end part of the game that was when we saw them acting as if they were going to equalize. What can we say about France and Mbappe's performance tonight?

[GeorgeJohn]

Spain's performance was great, especially the Spanish goalkeeper did an outstanding performance. He saved the ball very hard. Beating France 2-0 to reach the final was a great achievement for Spain. To be honest, I was a France supporter but I was surprised by Spain's performance. France played like crazy in the end. Mbappe got a yellow card for fouling the goalkeeper. There were a lot of expectations from Mbappe but he could not show a good performance today. Congratulations to Spain for reaching the final

Spain played France like today is the first match of France, they're playing without tension, with enough confidence and courage, performance is top notch, from the first half to the second half, Spain performance were good, I never expected the match to 2:0 I thought that France would have equalize the match for the first goal, but immediately Spain scored the second goal, it's when i gave up, even the third goal by Spain wasn't be offside, but I don't know why VAR did not check the goal, for me that was excellent goal, but referrer cancelled it..shall, it's a game anything can happen on the process.

[Majestic-milf]

There was a situation where I didn't expect much here because in the first half I expected dominance from France but the opposite happened.

France like pressured for this match even in the early 30 minutes Spain showed good dominance especially for 1 penalty goal that occurred.
The second half Francis should get up and change their scheme because if the same scheme is still done then maybe they will lose momentum and can not comeback in this match.

There is still plenty of time for France but now the most important thing is how they build rhythm in the second half because the first half France kind of lost their identity in terms of speed which they always did early on in the World Cup.

When you play against a side like France, you don't need to match their fast pace else you might make mistakes. I like how Spain controlled the game and made France look like they didn't know what they were doing.
France conceded two goals, something that hadn't been done since 2010 and it was up until the 90+4 minutes that France registered their first shot on goal. Didier Deschamps' boys played well but they couldn't outsmart Spain who seemed very much prepared for them.

[Odusko]

i didn’t expect that at all. Spain were absolutely brilliant and ran their hearts out. the team fully deserve to be in the final. France’s superstars didn’t stand a chance today.  no matter who wins tomorrow... Spain are now my favourites to win the World Cup. where were Mbappé, Dembélé, Olise and the other stars today?
sorry... but I didn’t see a single French star today. 

I told you all what Spain is capable of doing and the risks that comes with playing the 90 minutes plus and how team's take advantage of early chances, congratulations for Spain defeating a big team out of the world cup finals is a big remarkable achievement tonight, now that France is out, let see how the finals is going to look like.

[Delaforetnoire]

What happened to France?? The game became chaotic, many players are easily provoked emotions, while Spain the game remains solid now scored 2 goals, impossible for France to catch up.

There was nothing we could do and we had to leave the World Cup with a defeat. Spain played very well and they continued the same effort from start to finish. But I never thought France would do so badly because France couldn't score any one goals.

Normally, I think that France would score at least (1) goal but they didn't. First semi final match ended (2-0) but Spain was way ahead of France and it has to be accepted.

[Spaceman1000$]

I will go with 2-1, France are going to be the team that will have an opening goal, I have this strong believe that Spain will equalize but France will score the second goal and it's going to be made by Dembele. Mbape is going to have a very strong marking in this match, they will not want to give him chance to score but I'm still sure he will make a way with at least one goal and the second one will come from Dembele, Lamine Yamal will score nothing in this match.

There is no way France will let go of Spain, I think there is even high chance of both teams going for extra time before Dembele will have the final goal. With the way both teams are struggling and want to make it to the final match, I included 12 yellow cards from both teams. I don't expect this match bot to have fight, it will trigger some players to want to play rough for sure just to make their team make it to the final place.

This game will be a very tough match and we all knows that they is not a weak team in semi final. France are always good in World Cup they always dominate very well in the competition. With what you mentioned that France can get the openings goal I can believe that because they have the key players that can score goals and mbappe is a goal machine and he will always show up in the game and I can get the believe that mbappe will score for France because is the highest goal scorer for France. Let watch if Spain can shock the world and defeat France today.

Spain can give France a tough term because they have strong midfielders that can operate well, as for me currently we don’t really know who will qualify to the next round of the competition because both are strong team and have quality players in the team so let watch how the game will ends, I will wish France to qualify to the next around.

I unexpectedly bet on Spain to beat France. 🙋

And the decision was completely spontaneous. I already wrote on the forum that, in my opinion, France's chances of winning are much higher than Spain's. The bookmakers' odds confirm this. I was also very disappointed with Spain's performance against Portugal. In that match, Spain didn't show the level of play we all expect from World Cup finalists.

Nevertheless, I unexpectedly bet on Spain to beat France. It seems illogical, but nevertheless, it happened!

At the same time, I understand that football is a completely unpredictable game. Yes, you can say in advance that one team has a better chance of winning than the other. But in practice, anything can happen on the football field. It's completely unpredictable. So now I'm looking forward to watching this football match and rooting for Spain!🤸

For you to bet on Spain to win France this game, you really have guts, because lot's of persons will definitely go for France, I personally would go for France. However your guts really brought you some victory because Spain just won France 2-0. I'm highly disappointed at France, they didn't convert chances they have. The incident that led to the penalty that Spain got for me was the wrong decision by the referee, The France player was obviously in control of the ball at first, he didn't see the Spanish player coming and it was in his 18 yard box, the Spanish player knows who's was in control of the ball but yet decided to still put his body.

[Joeboy]

Watching this game right now, France looks like a tire team as they are finding it difficult to keep up with the pressure of the Spanish team, most of their passes are not accurate and they lose possession easily. Mbappe doesn’t seem to look lively in this game probably because he’s the target man. Spain creates far more chances and I think they deserved to win this game considering the way they are playing. Spain is already 2 goals up and I don’t think France can get a single goal in this game.

Spain has the advantage simply because most of the players that plays for Spain, also plays in the same club, so they already understand themselves very well, so surely they will be able to connect and make accurate passes..France couldn't believe this loss, it is really disappointing especially when we see how well they fought to get to this stage only for them to be knocked out by a Spain filled with youngsters... Hopefully France wins the third place, and Mbappe score more goals so he can win the golden boot ahead Messi.

[Yabani]

Spain developed a unique defensive system based on ball retention and conceded only one goal throughout the tournament.
Today, they once again dominated possession, winning the match 2–0 and advancing to the World Cup final.
They have held a significant advantage over France in their last three encounters.
They are now awaiting their opponent.
Tomorrow, they will face the winner of the match between Argentina and England.
I think we might see a Spain-England final, with Spain emerging as the winner.