{"id":5767,"date":"2026-06-29T20:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:34:23","slug":"englands-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=5767","title":{"rendered":"England&#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>Harry Kane and the England men&#8217;s national team know its path to the <u>2026 FIFA World Cup<\/u>, and it&#8217;s not going to be easy for the Three Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>England won Group L with wins over Croatia and Panama, as well as a scoreless draw with Ghana. England remains one of the favorite teams to lift the title on July 19 with odds at +700, tied with Spain and behind both France and Argentina.<\/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 England&#8217;s path to the 2026 FIFA World Cup final:<\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0(Photo by Francois Nel\/Getty Images)<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>This simulation of England&#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 England to make the final.<\/p>\n<p><span>(Photo by Andrew J. Clark\/ISI Photos\/ISI Photos 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 1<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>Atlanta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>(Photo by Carl Recine\/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 5<br \/><strong>Location: <\/strong>Mexico City<\/p>\n<p><span>(Photo by Andre Ricardo\/Sports Press Photo\/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>Miami<\/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 Harry Kane and the England 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 Three Lions. England won Group L with wins over Croatia and Panama, as well as a scoreless draw with Ghana. England remains one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5767","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\/5767","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=5767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}