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Matchday 15: The Verdicts

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Published: June 26, 2026 14:18

After a fortnight, two days of group play remain before we are down to 32 teams (which is always where we have started). The scale is starting to come around to the larger field.

Who to Root For: Friday, June 26

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Published: June 26, 2026 13:32

Three groups finish, and the night runs the full range: two sides already safe and playing for seeding, two on zero points in a straight elimination, and four others scrapping for the last seats.

Who to Root For: Thursday, June 25

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Published: June 25, 2026 21:06

Three groups finish today.

Matchday 14: The Verdicts

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Published: June 25, 2026 14:45

The day belonged to a forty-year-old goalkeeper in Mexico City.

Matchday 13: The Verdicts

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Published: June 24, 2026 12:08

Tuesday was a shutout for the scale.

Who to Root For: Wednesday, June 24

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Published: June 24, 2026 11:56

The last group matches begin. From here the games stop being academic: in three of these six, someone goes home tonight. The scale has a busy day.

Matchday 12: The Verdicts — Sunday, June 21

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Published: June 22, 2026 14:11

A gentler day, and a historic one. Egypt won a World Cup match for the first time ever, Cape Verde took its second scalp in a week, and the scale, for the first time, declined to render a verdict.

Who to Root For: Monday, June 22

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Published: June 22, 2026 11:38

Groups I and J, second time through. Argentina opens the day, France draws the short straw of the guide’s contempt, and two African sides fight to keep their tournaments alive.

Who to Root For: Sunday, June 21

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Published: June 21, 2026 14:17

Every side today drew its opener — so all eight take the field needing a result. One the scale flatly refuses to call, one with no hesitation at all, and two the guide is glad to watch.

Matchday 11: The Verdicts — Saturday, June 20

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Published: June 21, 2026 14:06

A heavy day. Three denials, two of them late and one of them an elimination, and a single goalkeeper standing between the scale and total despair.

Who to Root For: Saturday, June 20

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Published: June 20, 2026 13:43

Groups E and F, second time through. One easy call, one held at arm’s length, and one where the heart and the scale have to be talked down from a fight.

Matchday 10: The Verdicts — Friday, June 19

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Published: June 20, 2026 13:32

Three wins for the scale, and one loss it would trade all three to undo.

Who to Root For: Friday, June 19

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Published: June 19, 2026 10:20

Groups C and D take their second turn, and the night builds to the one fixture this guide has been pointing at from the start: Brazil against Haiti. The villain meets the heart.

Matchday 9: The Verdicts — Thursday, June 18

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Published: June 19, 2026 03:13

The second round of group matches opened with Groups A and B, and the scale handed down a sentence it had never used before.

Matchday 8: The Verdicts — Wednesday, June 17

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Published: June 18, 2026 20:39

The day England finally showed up. The apex colonizer took the field, took the points, and the smaller justices had to be scraped from the margins.

Who to Root For: Thursday, June 18

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Published: June 18, 2026 12:46

The second round of group matches opens with Groups A and B. Two velvet revolutions meet, the wounded neutrals get no sympathy, and the group’s early decider closes the night.

Who to Root For: Wednesday, June 17

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Published: June 17, 2026 14:03

The day the guide has been waiting for. England finally takes the pitch, and the apex colonizer meets the only verdict it could ever earn. Plus Portugal answers for inventing Brazil.

Matchday 7: The Verdicts — Tuesday, June 16

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Published: June 17, 2026 13:53

The superstars all showed up. The scale blessed exactly one of them.

Who to Root For: Tuesday, June 16

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Published: June 16, 2026 11:32

The marquee day. A colonizer meets the colony it ruled, Argentina opens its campaign, and the guide gets the single most on-brand fixture the tournament can produce.

Matchday 6: The Verdicts — Sunday, June 15

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Published: June 16, 2026 03:27

Four matches, four draws. The scale was handed a full slate and rendered a shrug four times running.

Matchday 5: The Verdicts — Saturday, June 14

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Published: June 15, 2026 16:56

Four matches, and the empires had themselves an afternoon. Germany and Sweden ran up the score, Africa salvaged the day, and the tally tilted toward injustice.