MOTD Live: FIFA World Cup 2026
Group D Winner v Group B/E/F/I/J Third-Place
Group D winner v Group B/E/F/I/J third-placed team (Kick-off 1.00am). Coverage of the round-of-32 match at San Francisco Bay Area Stadium in Santa Clara, USA. Both Australia and USA made an impression in their Group D openers, comfortably defeating Turkiye and Paraguay respectively to leave themselves as the favourites to progress ahead of their meeting in the second round of group fixtures. However, as impressive as they both were, whoever advances as a third-placed team may count their blessings that they have avoided one of the tournament favourites
MOTD Live: FIFA World Cup 2026 airs on BBC One Oxfordshire at 12:50 AM, Thursday 2 July. (Live, subtitles.)
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