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Success, failure or something else? How the Socceroos’ World Cup campaign rated | Jack Snape
The Guardian Sport 9 hours ago

Success, failure or something else? How the Socceroos’ World Cup campaign rated | Jack Snape

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Australia’s overall performance cannot be distilled into a few spot kicks and will be deeply analysed in coming days, weeks and years The Socceroos arrived in the lone star state of Texas eyeing a historic win, a chance to secure a World Cup knockout victory for the first time. Against a resolute Egypt, however, they found in their pistol mostly blanks. The shootout in Dallas will become Australian football’s most debated topics after the substitution of goalkeeper Patrick Beach and selection in the high-pressure fourth slot of 18-year-old Lucas Herrington, but the successes or failures of Australia’s World Cup campaign cannot be distilled into a few spot kicks. Continue reading...

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Saturday, July 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Mbappé spot-on to take France past stubborn Paraguay into World Cup quarter-finals
Mbappé spot-on to take France past stubborn Paraguay into World Cup quarter-finals

On this occasion, France kept the champagne football on ice. Which was probably just as well, given the temperature. As Philadelphia broiled in an independence day heatwave, the World Cup favourites were forced to drop a gear or two but still had too much for a Paraguay team that set out for a fight but were ultimately no more than a nuisance. In the annals of France-Paraguay encounters this was more France 98 than Sweden 58, where Just Fontaine embellished his World Cup legend with a hat-trick. Les Bleu s ’ modern-day goal machine, Kylian Mbappé, had to make do with just the one, a penalty, to draw him level again with Lionel Messi in the golden boot race, but one behind the great man in terms of the all-time goalscoring record. Continue reading...

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