FIFA 2026 World Cup/Ticket Discussion Thread.

[Joca97]

I was not thinking that SPAIN would come to this far and all my predictions were France vs Argentina but Yamal has led Spain to the final match. That will be a great match for the two contenders. Messi vs Yamal. And nobody is talking about France vs England match again. This will be a clear win for France but what is happening in the world cup we can't say again that France will win. It will be a fierce battle for the two. World Cup is coming y an end.

The reason is because nobody cares about third place. I doubt I will be watching the France - England match because whoever wins is of no importance to me. England were on top and had the chance to advance to the final but Tuchel’s stupid decisions cost them the match.

Also, Yamal didn’t “lead Spain to the final”, he hasn’t been great in the World Cup. To be fair, he’s only 19 years old and still has a lot more World Cups tin his future.

I wont be watching this game aswell its really useless it dosent matter if you are third or fourth no body will care about that in a couple of years. I think both teams will play reserves for sure in this match to give them a chance to play at the world cup. Tuchel wanted to defend and it didnt pay off if it did everyone would credit him. Still only game that currently that matters is the final and i cannot wait for that match and i hope it dosent dissapoint.

[Egii Nna]

Nice game going on right here, football is one thing that always don't favour the best side sometimes. Because looking at this game Argentina has created more chances of goals  and even has the better ball possession but ,the English has taken the lead. And this is not good for the world champions because the English team is not like the other teams that they have been staging comebacks. Argentina should do more if they are to win this game because it obvious that their best is not good enough looking at this game.

I was really impressed when Gordon scored and England took the lead, I thought Argentina was finally going home. You were totally right that England's defense looked too strong for them.

But they ended up ruining my day, Argentina did exactly what you said they needed to do, they pushed hard at the end and got those two late goals from Enzo Fernandez and Martinez to win 2–1. It is so typical of them to find a way to win right at the very end. I have to admit they showed real fight to reach another final.

[Jegileman]

I wont be watching this game aswell its really useless it dosent matter if you are third or fourth no body will care about that in a couple of years. I think both teams will play reserves for sure in this match to give them a chance to play at the world cup. Tuchel wanted to defend and it didnt pay off if it did everyone would credit him. Still only game that currently that matters is the final and i cannot wait for that match and i hope it dosent dissapoint.

Tuchel still didn’t agree to take the full blame to be the one that caused his team to not reach the finals, that he never regretted those substitutes. Everyone wonders how the game atmosphere will change immediately just after you scored a goal, one goal these days isn’t enough to be defended against especially if you are playing against a team like Argentina who are also good offensively. I still blame him for the removal of England from the tournament, he could have done better and not allow for more pressure on his team just in few minutes left to the end of the game. He must have learnt a great lesson from this and I hope he adjusts even going forward.

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Yes, they messed up, I mean England. For me, I have always believed that the best form of defense is attack. Everyone should come out and play up front. You don't seat back and absorb pressure always, because if that's what you do, then there is every possiblity of your conceding goals, and that's what happened. Each time the ball gets to Messi, he brings in a cross, and there is always danger.

I just hope Mikel Arteta is watching and learns from this, because that the same tactics he uses makes him lose important matches especially last season. You don't seat back against a strong opponent and expect to win. Though it works sometimes, but that's luck, and in football, we don't speak the language of luck, it's your tacticality and good play. For me, the England coach messed things up for them with his decision in the use of his players

I said it the second Konsa walked on. What are you doing? Gordon scored the goal. He was creating chaos all half, running at them, creating angles. And Tuchel removed him. Replaced a winger who scored with a center-back. The pressure did not even kill England. They invited it. Sat back and packed the box with no one up front. Kane was standing by himself, and it seemed as if he had been left alone. There was no service and no movement behind him, nothing.

Meanwhile every single time Messi got the ball something happened. And he barely ran. Tuchel actually said post-match he felt like "they had a lot to lose". Argentina felt they had nothing to lose and they played like it. England felt everything to lose and played like that too. Guess which mentality wins.

[Dump3er]

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Yes, they messed up, I mean England. For me, I have always believed that the best form of defense is attack. Everyone should come out and play up front. You don't seat back and absorb pressure always, because if that's what you do, then there is every possiblity of your conceding goals, and that's what happened. Each time the ball gets to Messi, he brings in a cross, and there is always danger.

I just hope Mikel Arteta is watching and learns from this, because that the same tactics he uses makes him lose important matches especially last season. You don't seat back against a strong opponent and expect to win. Though it works sometimes, but that's luck, and in football, we don't speak the language of luck, it's your tacticality and good play. For me, the England coach messed things up for them with his decision in the use of his players

The statistics are horrible for England after 55 minutes. They only had 12% ball possession from there on. If you have to play against 88% ball possession and players like Messi and Martinez, I have no clue how a coach or a team could think they will get away with it. The England coach brought on too many defensive players and they had no moments of relaxation anymore and that was deadly for them. They could have won this match and that change from strong offensive football to parking the bus cost them the match.

Argentina is a good team and it was to be expected that after falling behind one goal they would increase the pressure as much as possible, but yes it could not be the solution to let them play with the ball 88% of the time.

The discussion in England about the coach is now huge and I can understand it. It was a mistake in my opinion to completely change how England was set up for that match by all those substitutions. Attacking is the best defense is true, but I understand that focus is shifted more on defending when you lead in a match like that, but never like England did.

[Bigjoe33]

Nice game going on right here, football is one thing that always don't favour the best side sometimes. Because looking at this game Argentina has created more chances of goals  and even has the better ball possession but ,the English has taken the lead. And this is not good for the world champions because the English team is not like the other teams that they have been staging comebacks. Argentina should do more if they are to win this game because it obvious that their best is not good enough looking at this game.

I was really impressed when Gordon scored and England took the lead, I thought Argentina was finally going home. You were totally right that England's defense looked too strong for them.

But they ended up ruining my day, Argentina did exactly what you said they needed to do, they pushed hard at the end and got those two late goals from Enzo Fernandez and Martinez to win 2–1. It is so typical of them to find a way to win right at the very end. I have to admit they showed real fight to reach another final.

Sure, it was a real fight, and they really did well. I watched the match, and Argentina wasn't really easy to hold down. They had Messi, Enzo and some players pushing forward without giving up, and finally they got what they wanted. If you ask me, I would say Argentina really deserved to win and they got it. England should learn better

[GiftedMAN]

I was not thinking that SPAIN would come to this far and all my predictions were France vs Argentina but Yamal has led Spain to the final match. That will be a great match for the two contenders. Messi vs Yamal. And nobody is talking about France vs England match again. This will be a clear win for France but what is happening in the world cup we can't say again that France will win. It will be a fierce battle for the two. World Cup is coming y an end.

The reason is because nobody cares about third place. I doubt I will be watching the France - England match because whoever wins is of no importance to me. England were on top and had the chance to advance to the final but Tuchel’s stupid decisions cost them the match.

Also, Yamal didn’t “lead Spain to the final”, he hasn’t been great in the World Cup. To be fair, he’s only 19 years old and still has a lot more World Cups tin his future.

I wont be watching this game aswell its really useless it dosent matter if you are third or fourth no body will care about that in a couple of years. I think both teams will play reserves for sure in this match to give them a chance to play at the world cup. Tuchel wanted to defend and it didnt pay off if it did everyone would credit him. Still only game that currently that matters is the final and i cannot wait for that match and i hope it dosent dissapoint.

I'm not sure of I'll be watching France Vs England third place game or not. I doubt I will watch it because instead of getting entertained, I might end up getting infuriated watching France play that game as I had initially backed them to go all the way and win the tournament.
If I'm free and bored, I might just tune in to see what's happening in the game since it's still a World Cup game. England deserves nothing from this game, not because they've not been impressive but because Tuchel's last minute substitutions against Argentina were to awful to see him win anything in this tournament.

[alankasman]

Sure, it was a real fight, and they really did well. I watched the match, and Argentina wasn't really easy to hold down. They had Messi, Enzo and some players pushing forward without giving up, and finally they got what they wanted. If you ask me, I would say Argentina really deserved to win and they got it. England should learn better

This was very evident in Argentina's match against England and they deserved to win because their spirit was in the game from the first half until the final whistle. Argentina always played with the goal of winning. I saw how they executed their strategy, starting from being behind against England but they still tried to score to equalize. Not only did they equalize but they also went into the extra time allotted by the match officials. The result was clear in that extra time, they managed to score ensuring their place in the final for the second consecutive World Cup.

Currently I think they will face Spain in the final round meaning that both teams will play their best performance from the preliminary round to the semifinal round and for Argentina this time it will be very difficult for them to face Spain because the Spanish team has a fairly strong defense, especially in this World Cup they have not had many goals conceded by other teams when facing them so I think this final will be very complete because both teams have the same goal and for Argentina this final is their momentum to maintain their status as defending champions in this World Cup.

[Uhwuchukwu53]

The clear nature of the final has already shown it take Spain extra work to finally grab the victory from Argentina looking at their last match with england in the semi final game though I would ration blame on coach approach of using defense on that early stage instead of pushing for more goals removing player at that stage is a heavy mistake, though not ignorant that game is full of calculation hard it been it work for the coach it would have been the smartest person at that moment by the way. I thing I know is that Argentina will fight the last drop of blood to retain and hold this back to back considering the fact they are already in the final it takes grace for Spain to win this very match on Sunday.

[Agbe]

The clear nature of the final has already shown it take Spain extra work to finally grab the victory from Argentina looking at their last match with england in the semi final game though I would ration blame on coach approach of using defense on that early stage instead of pushing for more goals removing player at that stage is a heavy mistake, though not ignorant that game is full of calculation hard it been it work for the coach it would have been the smartest person at that moment by the way. I thing I know is that Argentina will fight the last drop of blood to retain and hold this back to back considering the fact they are already in the final it takes grace for Spain to win this very match on Sunday.

The highest mistake made so far in the world teams is from England. As I saw the way their were playing, I don't have a seer to tell me that Argentina would score and equalized in the match. I don't know what the coach was thinking. When you are playing with experience team, you don't packed all the players to come defend a goal. Play the match as normal way but tell the defenders to be strong and whenever the ball fall back, let the two wings fall back to to protect the defense. But all the players of England were are the defend. Now there were two possibilities. England players were afraid to cost penalties so they played fair so they will not caused penalty by themselves. And Argentina has seen an opportunity to pressure them to score and one of them came to pass.

[Egii Nna]

The clear nature of the final has already shown it take Spain extra work to finally grab the victory from Argentina looking at their last match with england in the semi final game though I would ration blame on coach approach of using defense on that early stage instead of pushing for more goals removing player at that stage is a heavy mistake, though not ignorant that game is full of calculation hard it been it work for the coach it would have been the smartest person at that moment by the way. I thing I know is that Argentina will fight the last drop of blood to retain and hold this back to back considering the fact they are already in the final it takes grace for Spain to win this very match on Sunday.

That sitting back on defense early is the biggest mistake. England tried to defend their early lead, and Argentina punished them for it by fighting back to win 2-1. That comeback proved that Argentina will do whatever it takes to win and keep their title. Spain is playing beautiful, but Argentina has a good team spirit and Lionel Messi's magic. It is going to be a tough battle between Spain's smooth passing and Argentina's non stop fighting spirit, so Spain will truly need to play a perfect game to win on Sunday.

[Roseline492]

I'm not sure of I'll be watching France Vs England third place game or not. I doubt I will watch it because instead of getting entertained, I might end up getting infuriated watching France play that game as I had initially backed them to go all the way and win the tournament.
If I'm free and bored, I might just tune in to see what's happening in the game since it's still a World Cup game. England deserves nothing from this game, not because they've not been impressive but because Tuchel's last minute substitutions against Argentina were to awful to see him win anything in this tournament.

Is hard to watch a country that you wanted to win the trophy to be playing from the third position because all you would be doing is imagining how they could have been in the finals if all those there previous mistakes was not made but however we usually get the opposite of our expectations sometimes in football as physical performance is different from how it is viewed, so actually for me to have watched my country before when they were also at the play of third position I will also do the same for France and actually I'm still given them the honor of supporting them to win England for the third position.

[Shineup]

I was not thinking that SPAIN would come to this far and all my predictions were France vs Argentina but Yamal has led Spain to the final match. That will be a great match for the two contenders. Messi vs Yamal. And nobody is talking about France vs England match again. This will be a clear win for France but what is happening in the world cup we can't say again that France will win. It will be a fierce battle for the two. World Cup is coming y an end.

The reason is because nobody cares about third place. I doubt I will be watching the France - England match because whoever wins is of no importance to me. England were on top and had the chance to advance to the final but Tuchel’s stupid decisions cost them the match.

Also, Yamal didn’t “lead Spain to the final”, he hasn’t been great in the World Cup. To be fair, he’s only 19 years old and still has a lot more World Cups tin his future.

I wont be watching this game aswell its really useless it dosent matter if you are third or fourth no body will care about that in a couple of years. I think both teams will play reserves for sure in this match to give them a chance to play at the world cup. Tuchel wanted to defend and it didnt pay off if it did everyone would credit him. Still only game that currently that matters is the final and i cannot wait for that match and i hope it dosent dissapoint.

Should I say they're both shameless or what, teams that actually had everything within their reach but decided to gamble it all very annoying, France coach killed their game, he acted like he didn't know anything about coaching, he saw that his midfield was not working instead you should bring Kante he was like I've got Kylian Mbappe and Olise up front, knowing too well that Olise has already been pocketed, and Kylian Mbappe is not really get the chance needed like that game still annoys me till today, I don't even want to talk about England whom has already taken the lead by one goal, then ran back to defend against a team like Argentina.

[blue Snow]

Also, Yamal didn’t “lead Spain to the final”, he hasn’t been great in the World Cup. To be fair, he’s only 19 years old and still has a lot more World Cups tin his future.

Since this is his first World Cup, it’s only natural that Yamal hasn’t put on a stellar performance yet. Especially since he’s still so young. However, Yamal’s achievements with the Spanish national team are truly remarkable. Just imagine: at age 17, Yamal had already won the Euro; at age 18, he played in the UEFA Nations League final; and now, at age 19, he’s competing in his first World Cup final. These are truly remarkable achievements for a player his age. I’m confident that in the future, Yamal will become a pillar of the Spanish national team, and I can even imagine him following in Messi’s footsteps, just as Messi did for Argentina.

[Agbe]

Tomorrow is another great day to experience the World Cup. Here are the things to know tomorrow and next tomorrow events. There is no big deal again for the prediction.


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I am not arguing on vaguely, we all see how Yamal is playing and it contribution in the Spain national team yet people are saying he did do well to lead the team to this level. And this is his first world cup and he is doing greatly. Tomorrow I drop my predictions for the remaining matches.

[AmaGold70]

Worried about the number of fans that will miss watching the FIFA World Cup live because of the conditions placed by the US although I can't understand what the tweet is about but I think many will miss the word cup because of the financial conditions from the host country US where fans have to make a refundable visa bond requirements of $5,000 to $15,000 visa bond requirements for foreign visitors, to be allowed to watch the games live.

  That price is too much for the poor who would manage to go and watch the live match and the average surviving citizens to pay and watch. It would have been better the US Government and it Football Association, make things easier for the interesting visitors and citizens to pay little amount and watch the live matches. Some of the tickets I saw are too much in the World Cup. They don't want crowd in the World Cup and probably because FIFA has made enough money so they don't want much people to go and watch their World Cup games again. Even the aftermath COVID 19 World Cup was not expensive as this.

I think watching the FIFA world cup 2026 is not supposed to be only for those who are financially buoyant alone, it would have been something that even the average person would pay and watch, and I don't think keeping the ticket so high would make FIFA make more money, instead they number of spectators will reduce. But if the ticket is affordable, I think more people will go and watch, and FIFA will even make more money from their.
FIFA world cup is the biggest trophy in football, so attracts interest of many football fans both locally, and in the international level, so many would love to watch, and also give their own country adequate support, but because of the fee, many might not afford to pay for it while likely to reduce the number of people going to watch the world cup tournament.