{"id":20350,"date":"2025-06-27T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20350\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:44:10","slug":"lionel-messi-brazils-surprise-packages-the-bellingham-brothers-and-the-biggest-winners-losers-of-the-club-world-cup-group-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20350\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi, Brazil’s surprise packages, the Bellingham brothers and the biggest winners & losers of the Club World Cup group stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the opening phase of the new-look tournament now complete, it’s time to reflect on who’s surpassed expectations and who’s fallen woefully short<\/p>\n

No-one really knew what to expect from the revamped Club World Cup, as the planet’s elite flew out to the United States for the expanded summer tournament. But after a rip-roaring group stage that has thrown up no shortage of drama, suffice to say we are locked in.<\/p>\n

We’ve seen upsets, truly remarkable scorelines, big hitters sent packing and even some Lionel Messi heroics under the baking sun – pretty much everything you look for from a major tournament in the modern era.<\/p>\n

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But who have been the success stories and surprise packages, who’s surpassed expectations and who has fallen woefully short? Here are GOAL<\/strong>‘s winners and losers from the Club World Cup group stage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the opening phase of the new-look tournament now complete, it’s time to reflect on who’s surpassed expectations…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[6069,18938,217,18936,461,460,18937,6074,13287,10214,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-20350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-atletico-madrid","9":"tag-auckland-city-fc","10":"tag-bayern-munich","11":"tag-botafogo-rj","12":"tag-chelsea","13":"tag-flamengo","14":"tag-fluminense","15":"tag-inter-miami-cf","16":"tag-palmeiras","17":"tag-real-madrid","18":"tag-soccer","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114757990154237560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}