Brazil v Haiti: World Cup 2026 – live
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Only one contest has been played to completion so far this matchday and it was a good one for the USA. The hosts guaranteed their participation in the knockout phase with a needly 2-0 victory over an Australian side that regressed towards the mean following their outstanding opening win over Turkey.
Australia looked like a bunch of bananas in their all-yellow strip against the USA, and it is tempting to call this comprehensive 2-0 defeat a banana skin in the Socceroos’ World Cup campaign. In truth, however, this was less a slip up than a humbling, and the visitors proved ripe opposition as the hosts came and took what they wanted.
Two of the first round of matches at the World Cup were played at a level of severe heat that a football players’ union has previously said should trigger the delay or postponement of games, a Guardian analysis has found. A further four games were played in cities with temperatures also beyond that level of heat, though conditions inside the stadiums were mitigated by air conditioning.
