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World Cup 2026: Scotland on brink after Brazil defeat, South Africa advance, and more – live
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The Guardian·about 11 hours ago

World Cup 2026: Scotland on brink after Brazil defeat, South Africa advance, and more – live

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Samuel Dodson asks:

While it seems rather poor from a competitive vantage point that teams could theoretically advance from their groups after 2 out of 3 abject performances and losses; has anyone done the computations of what would need to happen in the remaining group games for Scotland to progress?

Are we rooting for Australia to thrash Paraguay, Germany to draw with Ecuador, etc?

Or perhaps Gianni thinks the fun is in finding out at the end ?

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Sources: The Guardian

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