FIFA World Cup 2026
Group E Winner v Group A/B/C/D/F Third Place
Group E winner v Group A/B/C/D/F third-placed team (Kick-off 9.30pm). Coverage of the round-of-32 match at Boston Stadium in the USA. Germany further reinforced their status as Group E favourites in their opener with a 7-1 thrashing of Curaçao, which saw six different players find the net for the victors. It might be expected for the third-placed qualifiers to struggle in this round, but the last two times the format allowed some of the teams finishing in third to reach the knockout stage were in the 24-team tournaments of 1990 and 1994, and on those occasions, Argentina and Italy respectively made it all the way to the final after progressing from outside the top two
FIFA World Cup 2026 airs on ITV1 Tyne Tees at 8:35 PM, Monday 29 June. (Live, subtitles.)
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