Tag: World Cup 2026

Norway reached its first-ever World Cup quarter-final by beating Brazil. What Haaland's form and the underlying numbers say about how far this run can go....

A midpoint audit of World Cup 2026 forecasts: what prediction markets priced correctly, where they went wrong, and what it teaches about forecasting....

France vs Morocco, Spain vs Belgium, Norway vs England, and Argentina's path: a match-by-match forecast of the World Cup 2026 quarter-finals with market probabilities....

Last updated: June 2026  ·  8 min read Kylian Mbappé is the pre-tournament favourite to win the 2026 World Cup Golden Boot. Every major prediction market has him near or at the top of top scorer odds. He won it in 2022 with eight goals. He is playing for...

Last updated: June 2026  ·  9 min read At 35, Lionel Messi did something most considered impossible: he won the World Cup. His performance in Qatar in 2022 — seven matches, seven goals, three assists, and a tournament-defining final — was one of the great individual achievements in football...

Last updated: June 2026  ·  9 min read The 2026 FIFA World Cup has begun. Forty-eight nations are competing across the United States, Canada, and Mexico in the most expanded edition of the tournament in history. Group stage matches are already under way — but the defining question for...

Last updated: June 2026  ·  8 min read Croatia have become one of international football’s most consistent overachievers. A country of under four million people has reached two consecutive World Cup finals — finishing runners-up in 2018 and bronze medallists in 2022. In 2026, the question is not whether...

Netherlands World Cup 2026 prediction: explore Group F, key players, Xavi Simons' absence, tactical risks, and how far Oranje can realistically go....