Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread (Read 62497 times)

I think this meme really fits the current situation in group C, LOL. 



In group A and B we have started to see which teams will qualify for the world cup and which teams have the potential to play in the fourth round. But things are different in group C. Japan has ensured their qualification for the world cup because even if Japan loses in the next 4 matches, they will still be in second place. But that would be very, very impossible. Japan only needs 1 more win to really ensure their qualification for the world cup. They can even play their young players or their bench players in the remaining 3 matches.
And on the other hand, the other 5 teams still have to compete with each other. This is really beyond expectations because many thought Indonesia would be the first team to be eliminated because Indonesia is the weakest in group C, even the weakest of all the teams in the third round. As an Indonesian, I am really proud of the struggle of the Indonesian players. I don't expect them to be in 2nd place but I hope Indonesia can at least be in 3-4th position and secure a ticket to the next round.

Looking at the FIFA rankings, Australia has been the second team after Japan to be predicted to qualify for the World Cup since the beginning. That has happened to Japan, but Australia still has to work hard to do that. Group C is the tightest group so far, in other groups we have seen a picture of who is in positions 1 to 6, but in Group C all teams (2-6) are still wide open to accompany Japan to qualify directly for the World Cup. Indonesia, which was previously considered the weakest team, was able to show that they could also compete and are now in 3rd place.

Brazil won the last match so I expected Brazil to win their next match but the result of the next match did not go in favor of Brazil in that match Brazil drew 1-1. Against Uruguay, Brazil seemed to struggle more and at times I felt like maybe Brazil would lose to Uruguay. This was Brazil's last match this year but the Brazilian team did not do very well on the last night of the year. However, while Brazil disappointed the fans, Argentina did not let the fans down as Argentina secured full points in their last match. Brazil and Argentina will have to enter the field with many new plans in the new year. Although Argentina's performance is quite good, on the contrary, Brazil's performance is quite weak. If changing the manager improves Brazil's game then the CBF will definitely try to change the manager.

The top two teams in the points table will qualify. But the third and fourth placed teams will have to play the playoffs. Japan will occupy the top spot in the table. However, there is a possibility that the positions of the second, third and fourth placed teams in the points table will change.

We have been seeing Indonesia at the bottom of the table for a long time. But unexpectedly, Indonesia was able to win against Saudi Arabia. And at the moment, Indonesia is in third place in the table. If Indonesia can maintain its stable performance in the coming matches, Indonesia has the possibility of occupying the second spot in the table. However, the teams in third to sixth place in the points table have each earned 6 points from 6 matches. And Australia is only 1 point ahead.

I don't think their goal is that high to begin with. Participating in a world cup is a new experience for them, even participating in the third-round/fourth-round is a new record already. I believe the goal is to improve their rank and attract interest from many parties to improve the domestic competition. Afterall qualifying for the world-cup means nothing if there's no improvement with their domestic competition/training program.

I believe a pundit blamed the strategy for that result. I remember seeing the line-up changed and people claimed that STY was experimenting against China, which bit him because they lost the game. Hopefully, they won't do the same and treat each game as final now.

They became the main stars of this match, Yengi was able to provide an extraordinary surprise by scoring a goal in the early minutes of the match which was able to put extraordinary pressure on the Bahrain players. And Yengi became the savior in this match, Yengi managed to equalize in the final minutes of the match. He is a young player who is quite talented because from the 8 matches he participated in with the Dutch national team, Yengi was recorded as being able to contribute 6 goals for Australia.

As for Al Jabar, as a striker in the third round of qualifying matches, Al Jabar performed poorly in several matches, he had not contributed a goal to Bahrain at all, but in the match against Australia he showed his fangs again with 2 goals he contributed in the match against Australia. So surprising, because both goals were scored in just a few minutes.

It is hoped that they will not be pressurised by the great responsibility and will be able to perform adequately. Historical moments are always appreciated and if they can qualify for the World Cup, maybe they will create a new history for themselves. Though let's face it, if selected, they are unlikely to even make it out of the group. It's too early to tell though, they haven't even selected yet

I could never predict that Indonesia would win the game against Saudi Arabia. However, we can't expect them to win all the games just because they spent a huge amount of money on their team. Saudi Arabia is still a much better team than a team like Indonesia.
We know Indonesia even lost games against weaker teams in this tournament, like China, but this time, their performance was surprising, and now Saudi Arabia's coach is definitely under premiere because of this result.

The match was indeed quite dramatic, where Australia initially scored a goal in the first minute and managed to maintain it until the end of the first half. And even at the start of the second half we still saw that Australia was still able to maintain its lead. But in the 75th minute Bahrain managed to make it equal, namely 1-1. And this is where the excitement becomes even more pronounced. Moreover, after 2 minutes it turned out that Bahrain scored another goal so that Bahrain managed to turn the situation around to 2-1 at that time. And I'm sure everyone initially thought Australia would win. But then in the second half after Bahrain took a 2-1 lead I'm sure everyone started to think they would win because after 90 minutes had passed and extra minutes had passed Bahrain were still ahead. But it turned out that Australia actually made a surprise by managing to equalize the score in the 90+6 minute. yeah, this is quite dramatic and exciting. And I agree both teams played equally well. Although if I conclude that Australia played more disciplined and better.

Right, Both teams played well in this match and that match was very interesting match of that tournament and we enjoyed that match very much because both teams played well in this match and no team was behind in this match and no team was away . But I will give credit to Al Jabar because he did excellent in this match and he did two goals in this match and played vital role in this match when his team needed that kind of performance but in the end Australia International Football team because successful to do second goal and they became successful to draw the match. I really enjoyed that match due to best players in this match.Yengi also gave excellent performance in this match and he did 2 goals and last goal was brilliant and he changed his team fate.

Indonesian victory over the Arabs,  China defeat from Japan and also the draw achieved by Bahrain from Australia have made a fierce competition in Group C at this time happen, in addition to Japan which can be sure to be very safe to qualify automatically to the World Cup as the favorite to win group C, of course there is still one more automatic ticket left that they can fight for at this time,  In my opinion, although Australia is currently ranked second with a difference of 1 point, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Australia and also China also have the same chance to be able to qualify automatically and it depends on their performance and consistency later, especially Indonesia, the victory over Arabia has certainly opened up their opportunity to be able to make a new history of qualifying for the World Cup if they are able to achieve positive results in the rest of the matches, especially get 3 points when facing China, Bahrain and maybe even Australia as you said.

But beating China and Bahrain is actually not an easy matter. Because Australia almost lost to Bahrian in yesterday's match. Luckily Australia managed to score an equalizer in the added minute of stoppage time. And made Bahrain fail to get full points.
And about China I think they are also quite extraordinary. Because even though they lost, they managed to score 1 goal against Japan, which means their attack level could be said to be better than Indonesia. But hopefully Indonesia can continue to win and qualify for the World Cup.

But actually it was unexpected to see Indonesia win against Saudi Arabia without conceding a single goal. Saudi Arabia played well and created many opportunities, but they seemed unlucky in this match because they continued to fail to take advantage of the good opportunities they got.

Never winning because they were only able to draw and finally lost due to a little drama made by the referee is a real result that we can see experienced by Indonesia. However, when playing against Saudi Arabia, Indonesia was able to win where initially many people predicted that Indonesia would not be able to beat the Saudi Arabian team with a score of 2-0.
The victory was very beneficial for Indonesia because Australia failed to win against Bahrain.


Saudi Arabia was late in taking advantage of their opportunities which had the advantage of body posture. They should have been able to play the ball high from the start of the match but they failed because Indonesia's defense was quite solid.

Seeing that Indonesia still has hope after beating Saudi Arabia really makes us excited this time. It's just that Indonesia cannot experience defeat and must win when facing China or Bahrain. And Indonesia can also at least get a draw when they face Japan or Australia later. Because if Indonesia loses points then I think Indonesia's chances will fade. Because clearly there is no significant difference in points. All teams still have the same chances. Only Japan seems to be safe in first position. And yes, Japan seems to be going through the Asian zone group stage which looks very easy for Japan. It is very natural that in Asian football we consider Japan to be the king.

Asian zone qualification in group C is probably the most exciting. Look at the same points obtained by 4 teams and Australia which only has a difference of 1 point from the others. Only Japan is very strong and undefeated. This means that there will be many possibilities and opportunities for each team to shift each other's places in the standings in the next match. I think what is beyond expectations in this group is the performance of Saudi Arabia and Australia. All will not only compete for victory points but try to compete with the number of goals and fewer goals conceded. It is not impossible that in the decisive match, we will see these teams will be determined based on the number of goals because of the same points obtained.

Yes, Indonesia must be better than before and never be satisfied with a good performance, and in the remaining matches of the world cup qualifiers Indonesia will still face Australia, Bahrain, China and Japan. And in the previous match Indonesia only got a draw against Australia and Bahrain, and I hope they get good results in the match. And Indonesia also got a defeat against China and Japan, and in my opinion Indonesia should have won in the match against China yesterday besides dominating the game I saw Indonesia's attack was not good and also I didn't see Marselino Ferdinan on the field because he is a great player, to discuss Japan I don't have much comment because Japan has never lost and is at the top of the standings for group C.

After the previous World Cup in Qatar, where Saudi Arabia beat Argentina 2-1. And after that tournament, I have lost contact with that football team, I am not following them up in their Saudi Professional League (SPL), but the popularity of the tournament is much more than My country Professional League. And if Saudi Arabia tried in the previous World Cup then they can do better in this one. I have not watched Indonesia games so I don't have anything to say about them. So I still go with the one I know which is the Saudi Arabia.

Brazil is a shit club now. They have a lot of great players but their coach and coaching staff are terrible. They must be feel shameful when they got dozens of great players, but unable to maximize them all. It's worsen when they played raphinha as a left back, and what the heck is dorival doing?

It's getting harder to find the spirit to watch any Brazilian games. They never made improvements. Apparently, the current squad is Brazil's worst team in years. It has good players, but no respectable leaders and it made them being so clueless.

It's very disappointing to see Uruguay fail to beat them. Uruguay could have helped to get rid of Dorival after they lost the game.

Yes, Indonesia is currently in a very good position, we saw that they defeated Saudi Arabia in the last match and occupied the third position in the points table. Indonesia has surpassed three teams in the FIFA ranking, so it is hoped that if they can win the next matches with a strong attack, then there is a possibility of moving up even further. Although Indonesia has performed well at the moment, they should not be satisfied with this, but they need to bring something good to move forward. Since Indonesia will still face four matches, if they can occupy a good position in the points table with their best performance, then they will definitely be able to qualify for the World Cup.

Yes, Japan's strength is indeed good so in the end it seems easy for Japan to secure a position at the top of the standings, and indeed in Group C Japan is a team that is difficult to beat because they have a good attack and good defense and also speed. Yes, of course, now that Japan has such a big difference in points with Australia, it certainly makes me believe that Japan has great potential to qualify for the 2026 World Cup.

Last night's match between Japan and China. Japan played well and of course in the end Japan was able to get 3 points from China. and I was amazed by Ogawa and Itakura because he played very well and at the same time he was the hero in that match. Yes, after seeing China's match against Japan, it is clear that Japan's strength is very difficult to beat and they will definitely be happy with that victory.

Talking about the fight for the title of second place in the standings is certainly very interesting because of course all the teams except Japan do not have a big difference in points so the competition for all teams except Japan will definitely be tighter and of course now our country (Indonesia) certainly has the opportunity to win tickets to the World Cup and of course, if you look at last night's match against Saudi Arabia, I see there is hope for Indonesia to finish in 2nd place. Yes, I hope Shin Tae-yong can train his men to be even better because of course all the teams will work hard to fight for 1st and 2nd position in the standings