It is a rest day in the ongoing 2026 World Cup and it is a wet day in garden city of Port Harcourt. The remaining 4 teams in the World Cup will be perfecting final strategies to reach the final.

Favourites France will play Spain tomorrow in Dallas while England and Argentina battle in Atlanta on Wednesday. It is the 1st time that the top 4 ranked teams in the world face each other in the semi finals of the FIFA World Cup.

By the latest ranking France is ranked 1st, Argentina 2nd, Spain 3rd and England is ranked 4th. Would we have a 1st vs 2nd in the final?

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France beat Mexico 4-1, while the United States defeated Belgium 3-0 at the same time.

Marking the start of the world’s greatest football tournament 👏

Let’s take a look at the Player Statistics so far:

Kylian Mbappe leads the Adidas Golden Boot race with 8 goals, 3 assists and 563 minutes played. Messi also has 8 goals but is behind due to fewer assists (2). If there is tie for goals, assists will be considered before goal per minutes ratio. Haaland with 7 goals is out of the competition. Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane both have 6 goals so far.

Michael Olise leads the assists log with 5 assists, closely followed by Martin Odegaard and Brahim Diaz with 4 assists. Kylian Mbappe, Bukayo Saka and Anthony Gordon are the only players remaining in the tournament with 3 assists.

Attempts on target: Messi (19), Mbappe (19), Haaland (12), Bellingham (11), Kane (11), Vinicius (11). Attempts at goal: Messi (33), Mbappe (30), Yamal (23), Kane (22), KDB (20), Oyarzabal (19). Headed attempts at goal: Havertz (7), Haaland (7), Jimenez (7), Mac Allister (7)

The Spanish team lead the passing log with three of their players at the top. Rodri (629), Cubarsi (533), Laporte (493) are the top 3 with accuracy greater than 93%.

Team-wise, Argentina have scored 17 goals – 1 more than France (16). They have also made more passes (4162) than any other team with a 91% pass accuracy – also the highest.

Spain has conceded just once with 5 clean sheets. France twice with 4 clean sheets. Will that reflect tomorrow?

Tomorrow, we preview the first semi-final game. For now, you can enjoy the friendly engagement between British Airways and Fly Norwegian.

Sadly, we lost South African midfielder Jaydan Adams who featured at this World Cup. We wish his family strength to bear the loss.