According to Le Progres, Ecuador beat Germany 2-1, yet Germany still topped their group, and C\u00f4te d’Ivoire saw off Cura\u00e7ao 2-0 through a Nicolas Pepe brace.<\/p>\n
T\u00fcrkiye edged the United States 3-2, Paraguay drew 0-0 with Australia, the Netherlands beat Tunisia 3-1 and Japan drew 1-1 with Sweden as Anthony Elanga struck from distance. Ecuador progress as a best third-placed team, Tunisia go out after three defeats and 12 conceded.<\/p>\n
Round of 32 ties are taking shape. The Netherlands will face Morocco and Brazil, led by Neymar, will play Japan. Sweden await France or Norway, and C\u00f4te d’Ivoire could meet France or Norway after crossing with Group I, having beaten France in a pre-tournament friendly.<\/p>\n
Charlie Hebdo faced criticism online and from several politicians after a cartoon by F\u00e9lix showed Didier Deschamps holding a funerary urn like a trophy with an offensive caption, prompting messages of support for „DD“.<\/p>\n
Former England goalkeeper Joe Hart noted the 2026 ball seems to float on long-range strikes, troubling goalkeepers, echoing earlier research on a „drag crisis effect“ with the Adidas model. The tournament has already produced 176 goals, eclipsing 2022’s 172, with numbers to rise before the 19 July final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Le Progres, Ecuador beat Germany 2-1, yet Germany still topped their group, and C\u00f4te d’Ivoire saw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[125,124,126],"class_list":["post-51806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-elfenbeinkueste","tag-cote-divoire","tag-elfenbeinkueste","tag-ivory-coast"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@afrika\/117230835235014087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/afrika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}