Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 100. (Read 57565 times)

Confidence is exercised in all round specifically when we win heavily from the system. I ensure I always try my possible best to bet on the winning team, and not settle for lesser results simply because my favorite club is playing against a top side. Argentina winning the world cup was a great shock to most people, who could believe they will become winners, definitely not after hyping other countries like France and Brazil to lift the world cup. Featuring in the finals is a big dream for every players. Argentina won the 2022 Qater world cup with amazing performance from the players and Leo Messi is put infront for the champs.

Messi is indeed a big factor and their idol, but you can't call him their key player anymore, several others are performing as good as him lately, Otamendi, being a defense, was the one who scored against both Brazil and Paraguay, likely the two harder games Argentina actually won in these qualifiers (still, the harder one for Argentina was their defeat against Uruguay, they were overwhelmed)
I think today's Argentina can defeat Brazil or France even without Messi

Brazil still has big chance of qualifying and indeed they could produce surprising results that make us perhaps not believe what they are doing.
For now, perhaps Brazil can still be said to be at the bottom or team that can be beaten by other big teams, but in the next match no one knows what it will be like.
But for now Brazil is being coached by Fernando Diniz who is temporary coach who will probably only be in charge if Ancelotti actually comes with an official agreement for Brazil.
It just that looking at Brazil development while competing in the World Cup, they managed to become one of the most successful teams by winning 5 titles.

Of course, the favorite for Argentina is really quite big because Argentina is team that really cannot be underestimated, even the surprise they give can be truly shocking.
Like in the 2022 World Cup, they managed to take the lead from the start but in the end ended in draw and had to shoot out on penalties. In this penalty match, Messi and his colleagues gave big surprise by winning the match against France.
But for the 2026 World Cup, Argentina appearance will be very different because it is certain that their idol or key player Messi will not be able to defend Argentina in that event. But several rumors are circulating that there is one condition that has been put forward if Messi wants to appear at the 2026 World Cup namely Argentina must win the Copa America in 2024.

Brazil sometimes always comes with surprises with the way they played their match, if we are to start with the mentioning of countries that may not qualified then we may not even include Brazil because one would have not taught about this with them, Brazil need to be steadfast in their performance, this is not what they will be hot and sometimes turn cold and keep disappointing like others do.


Am always proud of Argentina and in most time i play my bet, i always include their performances into consideration and choose them to constitute my bet, beca am having the confidence in them to alwa go far till the finals by all means.

I hope Ancelotti really takes up his managerial job in charge of the Brazilian national team, of course by waiting for his contract to expire with Real Madrid. In terms of experience at club level, I am quite sure that Don Carlo can improve Brazil performance, but we have not seen him manage any National Team in his career, this will be an interesting experience for him, and maybe after that he will decide to retire from coaching.

On the other hand, leaving Madrid was a mistake, he could achieve success in every competition, but as I said earlier, Ancelotti needed something new, yes a new challenge at a different level. The Copa America and World Cup will be a challenge for Ancelotti if he takes this job, I am sure he can achieve success there.

Yes, I also think that the coaching is a problem for Brazil. The tactics are really not working right now.  So either they change the tactics or the brain in someone new who can actually bring in better results with newer and improved tactics. We all know that they are expected to bring in Anchelloti as the new coach of Brazil pretty soon. But for that, they will have to wait till the La Liga season is over.  And I hope it is not going to be too late by then. Because of the way Brazil is performing right now, it does not give anyone much confidence about them.

Yes!
FIFA has "capricious" the number of places for teams that will qualify for the World Cup and I also doubt that Brazil will be left out of them, but it is undeniable to say that Brazil is in one of its worst moments....
After losing to Colombia and Argentina, Brazil fell to 5th place in the FIFA rankings, was overtaken by England and Belgium and reached its lowest position since August 2016.

I hope that under the command of a new coach in the next stage of the qualifiers, Brazil can recover these points and start playing well again and not just "qualify".

Out of curiosity... here is the FIFA top 10 ranking:

• Argentina: 1855.2 points
• France: 1845.44 points
• England: 1800.05 points
• Belgium: 1798.46 points
• Brazil: 1784.09 points
• Netherlands: 1745.48 points
• Portugal: 1745.06 points
• Spain: 1732.64 points
• Italy: 1718.82 points
• Croatia: 1717.57 points

But we expect a lot better performance from a team like Brazil right? So maybe even though they somehow achieve what they want to do, which is qualifying if they do not do it convincingly, probably they are not performing as they should. And I think that in itself is a problem. Maybe they are performing well enough. But the question is how good as well enough? They definitely have lost matches that they shouldn't have. Qualifying for any competition should not be a problem for a club like Brazil. But right now that is exactly what has been happening.

Maybe we were expecting to see a much better performance from Brazi based on what we saw from this team in the past and especially in the past World Cups because Brazil is the most successful team in this tournament all the time. But even a team like Brazil will have bad days, it's the time for this team to try to find better coaches and change the team.

Not only that but they need to win every single game remaining in order to not leave the qualification in the fate of others,if they win every game remaining I don't see any of the other teams doing the same as Brazil except Argentina which can also win other games yet the ranking so far in the World Cup qualifiers Brazil is not boding well.

I think we can see a very strange World Cup if they don't make it to this event,I have to go very long in time and I don't remember this happening ever but I am not very old in age Gen X from 1980-s  .

That right and this is pretty good explanation, indeed obstacles and difficulties will always be there and it not even easy for anyone to get through, but when they succeed then the biggest achievement in gaining pride can really give satisfaction.
However, everything is still based on financial factors that are desired by anyone in the sports industry, it is impossible if they only achieve pleasure or give vent to their passion.

Agree with that and that why so many players consider all aspects regarding salaries and contracts for any team that tries to use their services as player.
But some players can get everything from popularity and also high market prices when they succeed in getting big achievements that are difficult to achieve, for example bringing their national team to win the World Cup.
For example, Mbappe really has name and valuable value thanks to his achievements in the World Cup 2018 when bringing France to win it.

Worry are quite natural but thinking that Brazil will not play in the 2026 World Cup seems too excessive if it happens it will be the worst history for Brazilian football and the CBF may fight for this bad thing not to happen, so I think Brazil will still play in the Cup World Cup 2026, they just need to make quite significant changes if they want to become world cup champions, with the existing squad it looks very difficult because their performance doesn't show that they are a strong team, is it because there are players who are injured? Maybe, but with a lot of good players, they shouldn't have difficulty finding replacements for injured players or the real problem is that their coaching staff isn't good enough to build a great team.

Correct. Indeed, Brazil performed very badly in qualifying this time. The defeat against Argentina added to Brazil's bad record. The match against Argentina should have been used by Brazil to achieve victory, especially since the match was played at Brazil's home ground. Brazil must immediately improve if they want to go to the next World Cup. The first thing that Brazil must fix is that they must immediately recruit a new coach. So far, Brazil has only been managed by an inexperienced temporary coach and it is clear that Brazil's performance has declined significantly.

Maybe 2026 World Cup Qualifier Brazil is not playing that well. That doesn't mean they can't play the 2026 World Cup, of course they can. This is the state of the Brazilian team today as some important players are missing from the Brazilian team. Of course, I will hope for the players of Brazil, they know that if they play well in the next matches, they will go to the 2026 World Cup next. Those Brazilian supporters are really suffering from watching this game the way Brazil is playing at home.

I don't think much problem faced Brazil national team right now regarding have loss in last three qualifier matches, CONMEBOL have many teams slot will qualify to World Cup and not difficult yet how Brazil will back to the top performance and get finish under Argentina position when last qualifier match. Difference teams level between Europe and CONMEBOL I don't sure Brazil will have the same thing with Italy fail qualify to last world cup edition on 2022.
Brazil have two points left from Venezuela and not much problem by winning one match later automatically Brazil will be on 4th standings, left many qualifier match on CONMEBOL zone and I don't think so much with Brazil will difficult qualify to World Cup 2026 because they have many top young talented in their squad.

First of all, I think Brazil is not going to have much problems. The performance is going to improve. And they are not going to face something like Italy. At least I have faith. But of course, impossible things might happen. But that is possible, not probable.

If we compare the performance of Venezuela to Brazil, we will see that Venezuela is performing better. After all, Brazil has lost three matches in a row. That is really bad. Venezuela has at least been able to get one point from those matches that they were not able to win recently. And they are definitely in a comfortable situation right now. But of course, there is still time.

Venezuela is in a comfortable position at the moment. They are at the 4th place in points table, with 9 points from 6 matches. So far they have lost only one match (vs Colombia). But the same can't be said about Peru. They are in a perilous situation with 2 points from 6 matches (4 losses, 2 draws). Paraguay and Chile are in slightly better position. Anyway, each of the teams will be playing a total of 18 matches in this tournament, and so far only one-third of the matches have been completed. So there is plenty of time for various teams to catch up.

Still 6 places and one more for the interconfederation playoffs is a great advantage to the big teams, keep in mind that even at their current level Brazil is 6th and by sheer talent pool they can't do far worse in a long tournament, they will qualify
The real fight will be for the 6th and 7th place between Venezuela, Peru, Chile and Paraguay

They are right, for me what Venezuela has done is something very great, it is the first time in history that in the first day of qualifying they have achieved something like that, and it is a shame that they lost against Coombia, in fact Venezuela should have having won in Peru, I don't know what happens to them sometimes, they have everything to do it but they miss the opportunity, with respect to what happened with Brazil it is something very bad, Neymar is injured, and that has made the team not have the same push, against the Colombian game they started very well, in fact they scored a goal very quickly, like in 3 minutes, after this Vinicius was injured, and they began to show a lot of strength in the team and the Colombians began to attack, that It was what made Colombia go ahead, because Lucho Diaz, the Liverpool player who was very fond of, whose father was kidnapped, because the player was the one who scored the two goals that day, and he did it in a heroic way, and his dad celebrating at a very strange time (the memes after the game with Lucjo's dad were endless) but it was a very good game.

The truth is that I believe that Basil is going to arrive very demonized at the next games in September 2024, because the second knockout phase will begin, and I think that there Basil has to win all the games he has left, he has no other choice, besides another respite from the teams, those who were injured will recover and that could be another story, this is just beginning, but the emotion that is felt in these World Cup qualifiers is impressive, the truth is, personally, these qualifiers are more difficult than the Europeans themselves, there is a lot at stake here, nothing more than the fact that they are playing against an Argentina led by Messi, a Uruguay that does not believe in anyone, was the only team that beat Argentina in Argentina, and of course, Colombia which is very plugged in with its football, they are the teams that I see as stronger, but if Brazil joins it will be even more difficult, at least for teams like Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia itself, Peru is something serious, it is expected that they can take away points from Peru because after the game some Venezuelan players went to give their shirts to the members and a police force hit a player with a tremendous blow on the finger.

Yeah, at the end of the day it is Brazil after all.

They currently have the most world cups won, and they have qualified to every single world cup in history.

No team around the world can compete with those two facts. It's unique to Brazil.

I think they will manage to qualify. It would be too strange for them not to.