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Absolute cinema of the game!

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 earn their first podium finish since 1966. 🥉

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Mbappé 🇫🇷 with two goals and one assist jumps firmly to the top of the ⚽ Golden Boot rankings!

To win the Boot 🇦🇷 Messi now needs:

1️⃣ a hattrick in the final OR
2️⃣ two goals + one assist OR
3️⃣ two goals in less than 55 mins on the pitch

To win the Golden Boot :
96% 🇫🇷 Mbappé
4% 🇦🇷 Messi

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🇫🇷 Michael Olise ends the World Cup with a whopping seven assists, breaking 🇧🇷 Pele's World Cup record!

🇦🇷 Messi would need to get 3 assists in the final to overtake him.

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Only 🇦🇷 v 🇪🇸 left to be played.

Winner of the final will get the 🏆 and appropriately the #1 place in official world ranking for July 2026.

💥 Live FIFA ranking (as of 19 July):

1️⃣ 🇦🇷 1970
2️⃣ 🇪🇸 1966
3️⃣ 🇫🇷 1949 🟰
4️⃣ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1923 (➕ 33.4)
5️⃣ 🇧🇷 1805
6️⃣ 🇲🇦 1804
7️⃣ 🇵🇹 1788
8️⃣ 🇧🇪 1778
9️⃣ 🇳🇱 1776
1⃣0⃣ 🇲🇽 1754
1⃣1⃣ 🇨🇴 1740
1⃣2⃣ 🇩🇪 1726
1⃣3⃣ 🇭🇷 1723
1⃣4⃣ 🇨🇭 1711
1⃣5⃣ 🇮🇹 1705

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Position map of Olise's 20 shots at this World Cup from Fotmob.

Remarkable how none of them finished in the net.

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🏁 EURO 2028 qualifying pots will be determined by positions in UEFA Nations League 2026.

🌍 Projected pots:

Pot 1: 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇳🇱🇵🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇳🇴🇩🇪🇧🇪🇩🇰🇭🇷🇮🇹🇬🇷
Pot 2: 🇷🇸🇹🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇿🇨🇭🇦🇹🇺🇦🇸🇪🇵🇱🇭🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇽🇰
Pot 3: 🇮🇪🇷🇴🇬🇪🇸🇮🇧🇦🇮🇱☘️🇲🇰🇸🇰🇦🇱🇮🇸🇲🇪
Pot 4: 🇫🇮🇧🇾🇦🇲🇧🇬🇰🇿🇱🇺🇨🇾🇫🇴🇱🇻🇪🇪🇲🇩🇸🇲
Pot 5: 🇦🇿🇲🇹🇱🇹🇦🇩🇬🇮🇱🇮 (Pot 5 locked 🔒)

✅ 12 group winners and 8 best runners-up qualify directly.

⏳ Remaining 4 runners-up and 4-9 UNL group winners that finished outside Top 2 in qualifying will go to Playoffs.

🏟️ Hosts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪 WILL participate in qualifiers, two automatic spots are reserved for them in case they don't qualify directly.

How many automatic spots they use will determine the number of UNL teams that enter the Playoffs.

👉 Full analysis of seeding probabilities for EURO 2028 in our 🕹️ Simulator

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xG after 64 mins:

🇪🇸 0.34
🇦🇷 0.00

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Argentina 🇦🇷 had 0 shots in 90+ minutes of regulation time in the World Cup final.

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Of the last 6 World Cup finals, France 🇫🇷 v 🇭🇷 Croatia (2018) is the only one decided in 90 minutes.

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🇪🇸 Spain once again hold the title of World and European champions simultaneously! 🏆 🏆

This was one of the most one-sided World Cup finals in history.

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🇪🇸 Spain's path to the World Cup title 🏆 :

🤝 0-0 v 🇨🇻 CPV
✅ 4-0 v 🇸🇦 KSA
✅ 1-0 v 🇺🇾 URU
✅ 3-0 v 🇦🇹 AUT
✅ 1-0 v 🇵🇹 POR
✅ 2-1 v 🇧🇪 BEL
✅ 2-0 v 🇫🇷 FRA
✅ 1-0 v 🇦🇷 ARG

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Luis de la Fuente's record since becoming head coach of 🇪🇸 Spain:

2023 🏆 UEFA Nations League
2024 🏆 UEFA EURO
2025 🥈 UEFA Nations League
2026 🏆 FIFA World Cup

He lost only 2 of his 49 matches as the coach of 🇪🇸.

Absolute masterclass.

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Kylian Mbappé 🇫🇷 is the winner of the Golden Boot!

v 🇸🇳 ⚽⚽
v 🇮🇶 ⚽⚽
v 🇳🇴 🅰️ 🅰️
v 🇸🇪 ⚽⚽
v 🇵🇾 ⚽
v 🇲🇦 ⚽🅰️
v 🇪🇸 ➖
v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⚽⚽🅰️

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For the first time since the reform of European cups in 2021 there will be no pre-draw groupings in 🔵 UCL Q3 champions path draw!

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[📈 Biggest winners of today's Q3 draws]

(percentage point increase to reach ANY league stage):

+16% 🇬🇪 Iberia 1999
+11% 🇽🇰 Drita
+8% 🇷🇴 FCSB
+8% 🇭🇷 Hajduk Split
+7% 🇳🇱 Ajax
+6% 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Motherwell

👉 Full details on projected paths and seedings for all 237 teams available in our 🕹️ Simulator

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[📉 Biggest losers of today's Q3 draws]

(percentage point decrease to reach ANY league stage):

-15% 🇱🇻 Riga
-15% 🇵🇱 Rakow
-7% 🇮🇸 Vikingur Reykjavik
-7% 🇨🇾 Apollon Limassol
-6% 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Hearts
-6% 🇦🇿 Neftçi
-6% 🇫🇴 KI Klaksvik

👉 Full details on projected paths and seedings for all 237 teams available in our 🕹️ Simulator

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[Projected 🔵 UCL PO seedings, after Q3 draw]

🇮🇱 Hapoel Beer-Sheva
🇫🇴 KI Klaksvik
🇸🇪 Mjällby

...are all projected to enter the PO draw on the seeded side thanks to their Q3 opponent's coefficient.

🇨🇿 Sparta Praha
🇧🇪 Union SG

...are confirmed seeded thanks to their opponent's coefficient!

👉 Full details on projected paths and seedings for all 237 teams available in our 🕹️ Simulator