World Cup updates from 1pm EST/6pm BST/3am AET You can email Tim | Bracketology | World Cup Daily Hello everyone and welcome to the 74th game of this World Cup. We’re in the home straight now: only another 20 days to go! But the round of 32 has done some good matchmaking and this pairing looks like a case in point. It’s Brazil, the past masters of the World Cup, against Japan, whose first tournament was only in 1998. Brazil will expect to go through, obviously: they won easily the only other time they met Japan at the World Cup (4-1 in Germany, 20 years ago) and in 14 meetings in all, they have 11 wins and just one defeat. But that defeat came on the last occasion, eight months ago, when Japan went 2-0 down in a friendly on home soil and somehow ended up winning 3-2. So, Casemiro, Vini – you have been warned. Continue reading...
Brazil v Japan: World Cup 2026 last 32 – live
