{"id":41612,"date":"2026-06-16T18:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/41612\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T18:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:57:32","slug":"the-rondo-world-cup-edition-is-spain-cape-verde-the-best-scoreless-draw-ever-are-the-usmnt-elite-and-which-team-has-disappointed-the-most-so-far-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/41612\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rondo, World Cup edition: Is Spain-Cape Verde the best scoreless draw ever? Are the USMNT elite? And which team has disappointed the most so far?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-teaser\">The tournament has delivered plenty of excitement, and after just a week of action, there is evidence to suggest that it could get even better.<\/p>\n<p>And so we have made it through nearly a week of World Cup action. It is, genuinely, quite hard to believe that this thing kicked off six days ago. We have played 16 games, seen one massive blowout, and a fair few surprises sprinkled in. The content has been consistent, and no one, except probably lowly, charming Curacao, has been embarrassed on the day. Indeed, this has been a good tournament complete with good teams. <\/p>\n<p>Yet there is a sense that things are just starting to simmer. This is the biggest World Cup ever, with 48 team participating. Gianni Infantino promised &#8220;104 Super Bowls&#8221;, which sounds like quite a lot of Super Bowls. So far, we haven&#8217;t quite had a World Cup classic. There have been a handful of remarkably enjoyable games, with a few forgettable contests sprinked in. Perhaps this thing needs a big ole to spring into life.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, there are some early storylines forming. The USMNT showed in a 4-1 battering of Paraguay that they might be good after all. Cape Verde, in a 0-0 draw with Spain, delivered perhaps the most famous scoreless draw in tournament history. And there&#8217;s been plenty of captivating atruff in between. To make sense of it all, GOAL writers weigh in in another edition of&#8230; The Rondo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tournament has delivered plenty of excitement, and after just a week of action, there is evidence to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1907,10111,418,17,5947,369],"class_list":["post-41612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-analysis","tag-cabo-verde","tag-features","tag-spain","tag-usa","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}