The final is set — Spain vs Argentina, July 19 at MetLife Stadium — after two controlled semi-finals and a…
With the quarter-finals done and the field down to France, Spain, England and Argentina, the outright title market has reshaped…
Two pre-tournament top-10 sides eliminated in the same night, a third (Brazil) shortened sharply on a stoppage-time winner, and a…
Four teams are left, and they are the four best-ranked sides on the planet — the first World Cup semi-final…
I have watched a lot of knockout football, and I cannot remember a Monday quite like this one. Three Round-of-32…
I had four matches open across two screens on Sunday night, and the one I kept drifting back to wasn’t…
I have sat through my share of chaotic knockout nights, but Wednesday gave us something the record books had never…
Eight teams are left, all three co-hosts are gone, and five-time champions Brazil are out too — this is the…
The quarter-finals are done, and for the first time in World Cup history the tournament’s four highest-ranked teams — France,…
The final pits the tournament’s best defence against its best attack, and that tension shapes the whole card. With Spain…
After Monday’s chaos, the Round of 32 settles into a calmer rhythm on Tuesday — three matches, three different vibes,…
Matchday 2 keeps rolling, and June 22 is a long one for Canadian viewers — four fixtures stretching from a…
Today the Round of 32 comes home. Two of the three remaining ties are played in Canada — Portugal and…
Two of the three individual prizes look all but settled going into the final, and the third tells the story…
The last of today’s Round-of-32 ties is the one West Coast fans get in prime time: Switzerland against Algeria at…
The second quarter-final is a style clash: Spain, who have conceded twice all tournament and are riding four straight clean…
Spain were the cleanest favourite-to-win-the-group story of the second matchday — Yamal-Oyarzabal-Williams in attack, La Roja ticking, the 4-0 against…
It ends where every World Cup wants to end: with the two best teams standing. Spain, the tournament’s meanest defence,…
Some ties you bet; some you just make sure you are in the room for. Portugal against Croatia in the…
This is the quarter-final of the open half. Norway are living a fairy tale — their first World Cup since…
One goal. That’s all that separates Lionel Messi from sole ownership of the most prestigious individual record in men’s World…
It took two goals in a match France lost. In the bronze-medal game against England, Kylian Mbappé scored on 48…
The first World Cup 2026 semi-final is the one everyone circled the moment the bracket cleared: the tournament favourite against…
For Canadian fans this is not a neutral watch. Morocco knocked our co-hosts out of the tournament in the Round…
The second World Cup 2026 semi-final carries more history than any tie in the tournament. England and Argentina have not…
This is the one Canadian soccer fans circled the moment the draw came out. On Wednesday, June 24 at 3:00…
When the draw came out last December, this is roughly the path I sketched on a napkin as the "dream…
The last quarter-final closes Saturday night in Kansas City, and it pits the tournament’s in-form star against its unlikeliest survivor.…
Every World Cup produces one team whose presence in the knockouts feels like it bends the rules of the sport.…
