{"id":1076614,"date":"2026-07-08T16:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1076614\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:49:14","slug":"the-liverpool-offsides-world-cup-reacts-quarter-final-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1076614\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liverpool Offside\u2019s World Cup Reacts Quarter-Final Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Back at the start of the World Cup, we asked Liverpool Offside readers to pick <a href=\"https:\/\/liverpooloffside.sbnation.com\/liverpool-fc-international-duty\/81263\/the-liverpool-offside-world-cup-2026-predictions-the-results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who they thought would win it all<\/a> and which player they would bet on to win the Golden Ball as Player of the Tournament as part of SB Nation Reacts!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Having now reached the quarter-final stage, it\u2019s a chance both to look back at how those results are holding up\u2014and to give you another chance to have your say!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Before things kicked off, a full 34% of TLO readers picked Spain to win it all with France second at 31%. Brazil at 12%, England at 11%, Portugal at 7%, and Argentina at 5% rounded things out. Needless to say, while Spain and France are still in the mix, Brazil and Portugal are gone\u2014and England and Argentina have probably made strong cases for being a little higher up the rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For most, then, Spain and France and England and Argentina will the favoured now\u2014especially as none play against each other in the quarter-finals. To round things out we slotted in Norway, who face England and then the winner of Argentina vs. Switzerland, as (in our opinion) the underdog with the best chance to run the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">On the Golden Ball (aka Player of the Tournament) front, nobody really wanted to lock in pre-tournament with 35% plumping for \u201cother\u201d and 25% picking Harry Kane second and 24% Kylian Mbappe third. Lamine Yamal at 11%, Lionel Messi at 3%, and Ronaldo at 1% rounded it out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">While other is still an option (though we suspect not the one that will win this time, Harry Kane hasn\u2019t even been England\u2019s standout\u2014instead, it\u2019s been Jude Bellingham, who put them on his back and was the star at the Azteca vs. Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Meanwhile, Erling Haaland has been a standout and with Norway still in it he has to be in the mix. Mbappe and Messi are still there, of course, along with Spain\u2019s Yamal, and we\u2019re quite curious how things will shake out this time around given all the changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back at the start of the World Cup, we asked Liverpool Offside readers to pick who they thought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1076615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,85284,16,15],"class_list":["post-1076614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liverpool","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-liverpool","tag-special-features","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116885387126270401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}