Overview
- Thirteen nations have already secured places in the round of 16, with sources naming Mexico, United States, Germany, Argentina, France, Norway, Colombia, Brazil, Morocco, Switzerland, Canada, Bosnia and South Africa among them.
- Key results that arrived on the third matchday included Brazil’s 3-0 win over Scotland, Switzerland beating Canada, Bosnia defeating Qatar and South Africa beating South Korea, and those outcomes fixed several group positions.
- Multiple teams have been eliminated from the tournament, with outlets listing Haiti, Turkey, Tunisia, Jordan, Panama, Qatar and the Czech Republic as out of contention.
- The remaining qualifiers and the full round-of-16 bracket will be decided by final group fixtures such as Germany v Ecuador, Curaçao v Ivory Coast, Japan v Sweden and Tunisia v Netherlands and by FIFA’s tie-break rules used to rank third-placed teams.
- Broadcasters DAZN and, for some Italian viewers, Rai are carrying key matches while sports outlets publish live projected sedicesimi pairings because small scoreline changes on the final day can alter who advances and who faces whom.