Articles tagged with World Cup

Russia made light work of a flaky Saudi Arabia in the opening game by scoring five times without reply, which means they now have Egypt right where th...

An Antoine Griezmann penalty and Paul Pogba’s deflected strike brought France a 2-1 victory over Australia on Saturday. Below are four talking ...

Only those who have not followed the recent fortunes of the Argentina team could have been surprised by the disappointing World Cup debut of Lionel Me...

And there it is. The World Cup has its Black Swan moment, a sudden unexpected event that, on the face of it, feels like it changes everything.  ...

Brazil enter the 2018 World Cup with a forward line they could have done with four years ago. Back then, Neymar carried the fight on the front end wit...

Peru return to the World Cup for the first time since 1982 and the reaction has been understandably jubilant, the excitement reaching fever pitch mont...

Mo Salah returned to training with Egypt on Wednesday but appears to be losing his race against time to be fit for this Group A opener, with Tuesday&r...

Brazil are the overwhelming favourites to top Group E, and Switzerland are fancied to beat Serbia and Costa Rica to the second slot. But the order of ...

Come Thursday afternoon, Russia and Saudi Arabia will have kicked off the 2018 World Cup. Close to a decade of waiting, building and marketing will be...

Poland overview Poland are a side with a very interesting line-up, and a collection of younger players who could really annoy themselves on the world...