{"id":5753,"date":"2026-06-29T18:24:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:24:48","slug":"argentinas-path-to-2026-world-cup-final-projected-opponents-for-each-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=5753","title":{"rendered":"Argentina&#039;s Path To 2026 World Cup Final: Projected Opponents For Each Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Lionel Messi and the Argentina men&#8217;s national team know its path to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and it&#8217;s not going to be easy for the defending champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Argentina won Group J by going undefeated with wins over Algeria, Austria and Jordan \u2013 which has seen Messi become the all-time goalscorer in World Cup history. La Albiceleste remains one of the favorite teams to lift the title on July 19 with odds at +400, only behind France.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Here&#8217;s what you need to know about Argentina&#8217;s path to the 2026 FIFA World Cup final:<\/p>\n<p><span>(Getty Images)<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>This simulation of Argentina&#8217;s path to the World Cup final assumes two things:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>This creates the hardest \u2014\u00a0and maybe most realistic \u2014 path for Argentina to make the final.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0(Photo by Buda Mendes\/Getty Images)<\/span> <!--&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><strong>Date: <\/strong>July 3<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>Miami<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>(Photo by Emma Ottosen\/ISI Photos\/ISI Photos via Getty Images)<\/span> --><\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><strong>Date: <\/strong>July 7<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>Atlanta<\/p>\n<p><span>(Photo by Chris Arjoon\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/span> <!--&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><strong>Date: <\/strong>July 11<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>Kansas City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>(Getty Images)<\/span> --><\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><strong>Date: <\/strong>July 15<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>Atlanta<\/p>\n<p><span>(Getty Images)<\/span> <!--&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><strong>Date: <\/strong>July 19<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>New York\/New Jersey<\/p>\n\n--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Lionel Messi and the Argentina men&#8217;s national team know its path to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and it&#8217;s not going to be easy for the defending champions. Argentina won Group J by going undefeated with wins over Algeria, Austria and Jordan \u2013 which has seen Messi become the all-time goalscorer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}