{"id":21116,"date":"2025-10-15T18:42:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/world-cup-2026-how-are-favourites-england-spain-and-argentina-looking\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:42:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:42:38","slug":"world-cup-2026-how-are-favourites-england-spain-and-argentina-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/world-cup-2026-how-are-favourites-england-spain-and-argentina-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: How are favourites England, Spain and Argentina looking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">England have booked their place at the 2026 World Cup and so attention turns to how they might fare in North America next summer &#8211; and how some of their rivals are looking.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s contract runs to the end of the tournament and the feeling has been that England have gone all out to get to this point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yet Tuchel believes England will be &#8220;underdogs&#8221; at the World Cup &#8220;because we haven&#8217;t won it for decades&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Argentina and Brazil, who have both qualified, will hope the location gives them a boost. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seven of the eight World Cups set in the Americas have been won by a South American team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And 10 of the 11 World Cups held in Europe have been won by European teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport looks at how some of the World Cup favourites are shaping up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4g3x3mmx40o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England have booked their place at the 2026 World Cup and so attention turns to how they might fare in North America next summer &#8211; and how some of their rivals are looking. Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s contract runs to the end of the tournament and the feeling has been that England have gone all out to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21118,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116\/revisions\/21118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}