{"id":5761,"date":"2026-06-29T19:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=5761"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:45:55","slug":"frances-path-to-2026-world-cup-final-latest-projected-opponents-for-round-of-16-and-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=5761","title":{"rendered":"France&#039;s Path To 2026 World Cup Final: Latest Projected Opponents For Round Of 16 And On"},"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>Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and the France men&#8217;s national team know their path to the 2026 FIFA World Cup and despite being one of the deepest teams at the tournament, it&#8217;s not going to be easy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>France won Group I by going undefeated (wins over Norway, Senegal and Iraq). Les Bleus remain one of the favorites to lift the title on July 19, with the best odds at +360.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Here&#8217;s everything you need to know about France&#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 France&#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 France to make the final.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0(Photo by Michael Campanella\/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>June 30<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>New York\/New Jersey<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>(Photo by Alexander Hassenstein\/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 4<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0(Photo by Dan Mullan\/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 9<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>Boston<\/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 14<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>Dallas<\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/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 Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and the France men&#8217;s national team know their path to the 2026 FIFA World Cup and despite being one of the deepest teams at the tournament, it&#8217;s not going to be easy. France won Group I by going undefeated (wins over Norway, Senegal and Iraq). Les Bleus remain one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5761","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\/5761","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=5761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}