FIFA 2026 World Cup/Ticket Discussion Thread.

[Mr.leeemzy]

Germany and France are my second and third favourites in this 2026 FIFA World cup  and either one of them will surely win the trophy because of the kind of attackers they have currently, before the starting of the tournament I was deliberating on whether to support Spain because am a Barcelona fan which automatically make me a Spain supporter but at things is going now with the Spain current squad I doubt if they will make it to the knockout state, just imagin Spain loosing point to cape Verde which is one of the underrated teams in the tournament I almost forget to mention the present champions of the world cup with them having the greatest player of all-tim(the GOAT) they are the first team I support but I can't verge for them to win the cup but what am sure of is that they will perform more than Spain in this tournament..

[meser#]

 Belgium-Egypt match just finished, and as expected, it ended 1-1.
Lukaku came on and had a big impact on the equalizer.
What struck me most in this match was the referee's decision not to issue a card during Tielemans' clear red card in the 36th minute. I think it was a clear red card. Why didn't VAR intervene, for example? Tielemans' action was far from innocent.

The match ended 1-1. Also, European teams are struggling to win, which is another point that caught my attention.

[kizilhare]

Cape Verde, participating in the World Cup for the first time in its history, earned a point against Spain. The winners in this match were definitely the betting companies. How many people in the world bet on a draw or under 2.5 goals in this match? Spain was not productive at all in this match. They looked for goals with long-range shots. They might have lost the match in the final moments. Cape Verde had chances in those minutes but couldn't convert them. The match ended 0-0, a huge surprise.

[Obari]

Cape Verde, participating in the World Cup for the first time in its history, earned a point against Spain. The winners in this match were definitely the betting companies. How many people in the world bet on a draw or under 2.5 goals in this match? Spain was not productive at all in this match. They looked for goals with long-range shots. They might have lost the match in the final moments. Cape Verde had chances in those minutes but couldn't convert them. The match ended 0-0, a huge surprise.

Cape Verde was totally dominated all through the game but they didn't give up and score a point against a nation like Spain. If you ask any Cape Verde citizen, that's a pure big win for them because how can you picture a country so small like Cape Verde sharing points with the Formidable squad of Spain? I know this is football and we've witnessed a lot happening and this match between SPAIN VS CAPE VERDE was one of it.

Who are you golfing out for? Who to take the blames because it was crystal clear that Spain was not just favorite to win today but also favorite to win the World Cup, is this how they're going to struggle to squeeze a win against nations that plays low blocks? The Spain Manager, Luis de la Fuentes just have to do better with his selection when it comes to his starting XI because what he did today was all to no avail, starting Gavi in the Frontline, common what was he thinking?

Because Luis de la Fuentes realized his mistakes, there was no longer time and also Oryazebal and Feran Torres was missing big goal scoring chances, if not for Lamine Yamal that came on and the ball changed, what will the fate of Spain? A draw is not bad and this will push them to do well in next match.

[disbil]

Cape Verde, participating in the World Cup for the first time in its history, earned a point against Spain. The winners in this match were definitely the betting companies. How many people in the world bet on a draw or under 2.5 goals in this match? Spain was not productive at all in this match. They looked for goals with long-range shots. They might have lost the match in the final moments. Cape Verde had chances in those minutes but couldn't convert them. The match ended 0-0, a huge surprise.

Right, the fully winner for this match is betting or gambling casino companies because many gambler put wrong prediction favoriting Spain is winner team, first time appearance in World Cup and come as not favorite team make Cape Verde without any pressure yet for the first games when holding draw Spain. I can see how underestimate with Cape Verde based on starting line up from Spain team and benched Lamine Yamal by playing underrate players for the early minutes match.

No matter how dominance Spain ball possession, accurate passing until shot on goal without success scoring goal against Cape Verde fully playing full defense, its good tactical from Cape Verde get one point from top team such as Spain exactly for the first experienced playing at World Cup.

[juttsab@]

Scotland defeated Haiti 1-0 in the World Cup for the first time in 36 years. Scotland, who last participated in the World Cup in France in 1998, failed to win any matches there. From what I've seen, Haiti is the weakest team I've encountered so far.
They also participated in the World Cup after 52 years.
They also have no wins.
Most likely, they will be eliminated from the tournament without getting any points from this group. Because the other two teams in the group are Morocco and Brazil.
It will not be easy for them to get points from these two teams.
Even scoring a goal would be a great achievement.

Scotland won their opening match of the world cup against Haiti by 1-0. In the first half Scotland built pressure on Haiti and got only goal of the match in the 28th minute scored by McGinn. They got 0.92 xG , 1 big chance created and 7 total shots. In the second half the table turned and Haiti dominated with 64% possession but didn't manage to get any goal. 0.52 xG and 7 shots. Lewis Ferguson was named as player of the match for his accurate passes and dominance in the midfield. Now they are going to face Morocco and Brazil next in the group stage. If Haiti loses to Morocco and Brazil and there are big chances of that then Scotland will qualify for round of 32 by winning that only match of the  group stage.

[Iamgoat]

Belgium-Egypt match just finished, and as expected, it ended 1-1.
Lukaku came on and had a big impact on the equalizer.
What struck me most in this match was the referee's decision not to issue a card during Tielemans' clear red card in the 36th minute. I think it was a clear red card. Why didn't VAR intervene, for example? Tielemans' action was far from innocent.

The match ended 1-1. Also, European teams are struggling to win, which is another point that caught my attention.

I think the name of the referee who officiated the match is Ramon Abatti, a Brazilian. Why I mentioned is name is nothing other than some of us may want to know who the referee is and where he comes from and whatnot as to a reason why he probably didn't blow the whistle when to them the foul was very glaring to the eye but I still tried to check whether there would be a relationship between the referee and the Egyptian team but I could not see any, in fact if someone was to be favoured there, it should have been the Belgium side since it would have been easier for the referee to be linked to the country for many other reasons. But this was a good fight for Egypt as I was also expecting a draw but didn't expect the guys to be this tough meaning they kinda have future in this world cup if they can be more clinical in their subsequent games against New Zealand I believe.

[Yabani]

In the Belgium-Egypt match, the referee made two critical mistakes against Egypt. One was Tielemans' foul; he should have received a red card, but wasn't even given a yellow. The other was the failure to award Egypt a penalty.

Belgium may have a better squad quality, but they were quite effective against Egypt. In Egypt's goal, Courtois failed to see Ashour's shot. It was so powerful that if its speed were measured, it must have reached over 150 km/h.