2026 World Cup round of eight
France vs Morocco - France topped their group, won all their matches, and survived being kicked by paraguay absent a major injury. Morocco seconded in a group with Brasil and has overcome challenges, but is showing a sustaining ability starting from two world cups ago.
Spain vs Belgium- Spain haven't let a goal in all tournament. Belgium have been outed for their weaknesses but were not punished enough to end their campagin.
Norway vs England- Norway + England have been outed but their weaknesses were not punished enough to end their campaign.
Argentina vs Switzerland-- Argentina have been outed but their weakness were not punished enough to end their campaign. Switzerland have been alongside France side Spain the best defensive team in the tournament. Against the best opposition, Switzerland have no goals, Spain have a few, France have many.
CAF thoughts- all teams from CAF including Morocco had to come from behind at some point. Some like Senegal or Egypt lost two goal leads. What is the solution? From within each football association of the cofederation of african football, ane answer is better coaches, But another internal answer exist. Allow the proper player pool. Most CAF countries have a system that supports some players and ignores others. In the same way, Spain primarily uses Barcelona or Real Madrid players and usually ignores or doesn't utilize the spanish talent out the el classico participants. But whether it is egypt/south africa types who primarily use players who play in their respective caf country., or nigeria types who mostly use foreign based players. CAF teams have to stop asking for money for players to play. I have heard so many cases of CAF FA's asking for money for a player to play for a country, it is clearly a problem. Externally, all football associations in can be better by a harder tournament, to the confederation championship plus the confed championship itself, to the qualification method to the world cup used in each confed.
CFU Caribbean Football Union thoughts. HAiti plus Curaco have no excuse to improve and be dominant in the caribbean region.
