Published Jun 27, 2026, 9:41 AM ET · Updated 5 months ago · 1 source
Who would the US need to beat to win the World Cup? Probably only Spain, France and England
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F ootball Unites the World … in wishing it had paid more attention in applied mathematics class. Or so the Fifa slogan could have been expanded to say, given the mind-warping that arose from the formula for slicing the newly expanded 48-team tournament down to 32 sides for the first knockout round. After all, why do a random draw when you can build a matrix with 495 possible scenarios in order to assign the fixtures for the eight best third-placers? Anyway, what matters is that Mauricio Pochetti