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Unlucky for the Socceroos, 2 key chances took incredible saves/block for Argentina to not concede
The Darling Harbour site was amazing, great atmosphere
I suspect we will back to normal, all Euros and Latinos by the final 8.
I would love to see, Senegal, Morroco, Japan or Korea go on, but I doubt it, they do have more world class players than, USA and Australia, who did well to get that far.
The poms to beat Senegal and choke in the quarters, it is thier way, In thier biggest sport.
FIFA have a easy set up with 48 teams in 2026 - 8 groups of 6 with the top 2 advancing to the round of 16
Although they want to come up with some other format - top 2 and best placed third place teams advance to round of 32
The 3 choices apparently are
16 groups of three- Top 2 from each group advance to the round of 32
12 groups of four - Top 2 from each group advance and the best 8 placed - 3rd place teams advance to the round of 32
Two sides(conferences) of six groups of four - Round of 16 in each side( conference) - Top 2 in each group plus the 4 best placed third place teams and so on - The winner of each half (conference) would meet in the final