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Will Manchester United ever return to the top of English football?
Back in the dark days of the 1980s, Manchester United used to run an advert in their official match programme with the slogan: “This season we mean business!”
It became a standing joke among fans once this slogan was not only retained beyond the miserable first few months of one campaign but well into the next.
But there was always a belief within the game that United, having fallen into decline after winning their first European Cup in 1968, would rise again.
Liverpool were English football’s dominant force, but the Merseyside club’s chief executive Peter Robinson often warned of the danger that “that lot down the East Lancs Road” would “get their act together” sooner or later.
Sure enough, they did. After years of struggle, Alex Ferguson (no knighthood in those days) got to grips with that faltering institution and, through sheer force of will, dragged United out of the doldrums, winning the club’s first league title in 26 years and establishing them as the dominant force in English football.
Manchester United celebrating their 20th — and most recent — league title in 2013 (Andrew Yates/AFP via Getty Images)
Rarely has a club “meant business” like United did under Ferguson’s management through the 1990s and 2000s — right up to his retirement in 2013, at which point the Glazer family started to run it their way and the footballing empire Ferguson had built so painstakingly was allowed to crumble once more. If the Glazers meant business, it was strictly in the corporate sense.
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The extent of United’s struggles in the post-Ferguson years is remarkable. So much money spent, so little success, so little joy, so little sense of direction or purpose. Their trophy successes have been beyond the dreams of most clubs — the FA Cup under Louis van Gaal, the League Cup and Europa League under Jose Mourinho, the Carabao Cup and FA Cup under Erik ten Hag — but for a club of United’s size, history and wealth, those have been meagre, miserable pickings.
And yet the same feeling has persisted among their rivals: that the darkest hour is just before the dawn; that at some point, “that lot” will get their act together and start competing for the biggest prizes again; that the confused recruitment strategies of the past decade will give way to something coherent; that they will eventually find a manager who can win hearts and minds and take the players and fans on a real journey, rather than reaching the first staging post and losing his way completely.
That is the challenge that awaits Ruben Amorim, should he choose to take over from Erik ten Hag, who was sacked on Monday.
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United sit 14th in the Premier League and 21st in the Europa League standings, sandwiched between Viktoria Plzen and Elfsborg. In all competitions this season, they have won four games out of 13 (against Fulham, Southampton, Brentford and Barnsley). Going back to the start of last season, they have won just 21 matches out of 47 in the Premier League, scoring just 65 goals and conceding 69.
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In terms of expected goals (xG), a metric that reflects the quality of chances teams create and concede, United’s tallies since the start of last season — per Opta — are 71.7 xG for and 85.5 xG against.
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To be polite, none of this is good. Whatever Ten Hag’s inevitable protestations, the problems went a lot deeper than profligacy in front of goal or an unwelcome VAR intervention at West Ham on Sunday.
Ten Hag was in some ways the quintessential modern-United managerial tenure: a challenging first transfer window, early struggles, a call to arms, back-to-basics football, an improved work ethic, a significant upturn, a trophy success, an upbeat declaration that “this is only the start”… and then looking helpless as the whole thing unravelled, a dysfunctional group of players reverted to type and another would-be saviour was quietly ushered away.
Even at the best of times, whatever technical and tactical vision Ten Hag had when he arrived in Manchester seemed to have been sacrificed in favour of pragmatism. It remains startling that a coach who initially wanted to build a team around Barcelona playmaker Frenkie de Jong ended up drifting so far from that concept, signing so many midfielders and trying so many combinations in that department, none of them remotely convincing.
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That word: drifting. United have spent far too much of the past decade drifting, going nowhere. One step forward, two steps back, more bust than boom, far more bad signings than good. There are parallels with Liverpool’s decline in the 1990s — not just in the way things crumbled and standards slipped so quickly but in the naive assumption that this is all just a bit of a readjustment after a little turbulence and that, sooner or later, the natural order will be restored.
That was a theme in this piece exploring the journey between Liverpool’s 18th league title in 1990 and their 19th three decades later. Their former defender John Scales, one of several big-money acquisitions in that mid-1990s period, reflected that “there was still a feeling at Liverpool that it was a matter of when — not if — they got back to winning titles”.
Steve Nicol, a Liverpool stalwart of the 1980s, recalled suddenly feeling in the early 1990s that “OK, we’re not in the best shape here. This is going to take a little bit longer than I thought.” “Before you knew it,” he said, “it was five years, 10 years, 20 years…”
Sound familiar? United are not approaching the 20-year stage yet, but it is 11 years since their last Premier League title (and while Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer still proudly trumpet their runners-up spots in 2018 and 2021, those were two of the most distant second-place finishes in English top-flight history). It can already be taken as read that 11 will become 12 after the way they have started this season.
The greater concern might be that, by prolonging the misery under Ten Hag into this campaign, by lacking the courage to go with their original conviction at the end of last season, United’s much-vaunted new executive team have risked this being another wasted season rather than phase one of the latest rebuild.
This was supposed to be a season when United “meant business”, to judge by the numerous bold statements from petrochemicals billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe when he bought a minority stake in the club.
Short of pointing fingers directly at the club’s majority owner, Ratcliffe could hardly have been more scathing of the culture of mediocrity that has developed under the Glazer family’s ownership. Addressing that, he said, would be a question of appointing the right people at all levels and changing attitudes and culture in the boardroom, dressing room and office floor alike. Some of these noises were encouraging, as were the moves to lure Omar Berrada from Manchester City and Dan Ashworth from Newcastle United as chief executive and sporting director.
It seemed so strange in that context, having held talks with Thomas Tuchel, Roberto De Zerbi and various others, to stick with a manager who had been floundering for an entire season. Results had been poor, performances frequently even worse and the mood inside the club, while not approaching late-Mourinho-level toxicity, was almost unremittingly bleak.
Beating Manchester City in the FA Cup final brought a day to remember, but it had the feel of a happy ending for Ten Hag rather than a new start.
United’s FA Cup win against Manchester City in June gave Ten Hag a reprieve (Alex Livesey – Danehouse/Getty Images)
The message from inside Old Trafford in June, after they had decided to offer Ten Hag a reprieve after all, was that they wanted to give him the opportunity to work under an elite sporting structure. As Mark Critchley suggested here, it is far from clear whether that is something they were in a position to offer. There is something deeply hubristic about such talk when INEOS’ track record in football is so underwhelming.
There was another line that sticks in the mind from Ratcliffe’s round of interviews last February. When asked about United’s playing style, he told reporters that “we will decide that style, plus the CEO, sporting director, probably the recruitment guys, what the style of football is and that will be the Manchester United style of football, and the coach will have to play that style”.
Eight months after that statement, five months after holding talks with coaches as stylistically opposed as Tuchel and De Zerbi, and four months after choosing to trigger a one-year extension of Ten Hag’s contract, it is still not entirely clear what that style is meant to be. United’s summer transfer activity certainly didn’t bring much clarity in that respect — though perhaps Amorim, if he takes the job, can make more sense of their latest intake than Ten Hag ever looked like doing.
In some ways, perhaps the United hierarchy should be grateful that results remained so poor. Performances were arguably a little more coherent and structured than last season, but this is the faintest of praise. Results gave them little option but to call time on Ten Hag and seek a top-class replacement immediately. Far better if they can do that than write off another campaign under a beleaguered manager or an interim.
Ten Hag said recently that there is “almost no club in the world where the expectations are so high as at Manchester United”. Did he really believe that? He was kept on last season after finishing eighth in the Premier League with just 18 wins (few of them encouraging) from 38 matches and with a negative goal difference. There are few bigger clubs in world football, but this is not a club that has sacked managers — or been under external pressure to sack managers — for falling just short.
If it is to be Amorim, he will be given time. He will also get money to spend (unless, of course, United have blown too much of their profit and sustainability allowance on players for the previous manager). An improvement will be expected of course, but it will be requested in the context of medium-term improvement. That is not an overwhelming level of expectation.
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It was fascinating to hear that Berrada, when addressing the club’s staff recently, cited a target to be Premier League champions again by 2028, the 150th anniversary of United’s formation. It was a target that somehow managed to sound both terribly unambitious for a club of United’s size and unduly optimistic when looking at the state of the squad.
On the one hand, Manchester City, Premier League champions in six of the past seven seasons, are a daunting opponent and Liverpool, Arsenal and even Aston Villa and big-spending Chelsea look better placed to challenge them in the immediate future. Looking at United’s squad, there is some obvious talent, in Bruno Fernandes and some of the younger players, such as Leny Yoro, Kobbie Mainoo, Alejandro Garnacho and Rasmus Hojlund, but under Ten Hag they did not even seem to have the nucleus of a squad that might challenge for the big prizes any time soon.
But the mention of those other clubs tells you it shouldn’t be as difficult as United and their managers keep making it look. Liverpool went from an abject position in late 2015, before the appointment of Jurgen Klopp, to the Champions League final within three years, winning the Champions League within four years and winning the Premier League within five; Arsenal went from finishing eighth in their first two seasons under Mikel Arteta to making genuine title challenges in seasons four and five; only goal difference was keeping Villa out of the Premier League’s relegation zone when they hired Unai Emery in October 2022, but by the end of his first full season, they had qualified for the Champions League, where they have thoroughly enjoyed themselves, sitting top of the table after three games.
Recruitment is a big part of where United have gone wrong. So many of their big signings have flopped, which points to failures of strategy, failures of coaching and failures of environment. The new regime at Old Trafford insists things will improve on its watch. It hopes that summer signings Noussair Mazraoui, Matthijs de Ligt, Manuel Ugarte and Joshua Zirkzee, having brought negligible improvement to date, will be energised under a new coach.
But it isn’t just about energy. United desperately need goals. In the last three seasons, they have 57, 58 and 57 in the Premier League. For context, the seven teams who finished above them last season all scored at least 74. Zirkzee, Garnacho and Hojlund have potential, but the reluctance to invest in proven goalscorers and proven creators is all the more confusing when set against the sums and wages paid for players in other positions.
United’s summer 2024 signings before the first game of the season (Ash Donelon/Manchester United via Getty Images)
There is so much work to be done. United will hope that a new coach can unlock something in those players the same way Klopp, Arteta and Emery — all of them mid-season appointments — got so much more out of the squads they inherited at Liverpool, Arsenal and Villa.
If it is to be Amorim, his work at Sporting inspires a certain confidence that he would bring an uplift in performance, both individual and collective, over the first 12 months.
But that is almost taken for granted when a manager takes over a big club at a low ebb. The greater challenge at United is to ensure that any such uplift can be sustained beyond the first year or two — and to escape this familiar post-Ferguson cycle where the rot sets in so quickly and where, suddenly, it once again seems such a long way back to pre-eminence.
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World Cup Buzz: Neymar Out For Brazil’s Match Against Morocco On Saturday
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The wait is officially over. The FIFA World Cup has arrived.
For the first time ever, three nations—the United States, Mexico, and Canada are co-hosting the tournament. It is also the largest FIFA World Cup in history, expanding to a 48-team field. Squads from around the world have arrived in North America with one ultimate goal: capturing the iconic World Cup trophy.
Here’s the latest look at some of the most notable news surrounding the World Cup.
June 12:
Official Injury Update On Neymar
Brazilian star Neymar Jr. will officially miss Brazil’s opening match against Morocco on Saturday. Neymar was named to Brazil’s 2026 FIFA World Cup squad despite a calf injury, and now won’t be available early on. Manager Carlo Ancelotti said that “Neymar is working very hard to recover as quickly as possible.
“The expectation is that he will recover and rejoin the group next week.”
Google Doodle Has World Cup Fever
In case fans didn’t already have World Cup fever, they can open their web browser.
Google is officially ready for USA’s opener against Paraguay, as the home page features a custom, USA-themed Google Doodle.
The Doodle features red text with a blue outline, as well as a soccer ball along with an interchanging USA crest replacing the “O’s” in Google.
James Cordon Stretches With Christian Pulisic
James Corden joined Christian Pulisic and the United States men’s national team for a training session ahead of their World Cup opener against Paraguay.
After meeting with head coach Mauricio Pochettino and going through a film session with the players, Corden and Co. hit the pitch for practice, where he helped serve as a water boy.
Corden tried to help Pulisic stretch out his legs after practice before he was stopped by a member of the coaching staff. As Corden walked off, Pulisic sprayed him with a water bottle.
DR Congo Arrives to the World Cup in Style
The DR Congo men’s national team isn’t set to play until Wednesday, June 17, against Portugal in Group K, but they’ve already made a statement upon arrival in Houston, Texas.
The squad arrived in style, stepping off the plane in striking black, jaguar-inspired outfits that quickly turned heads. The bold look fits their nickname, Les Léopards, and sets the tone for their World Cup presence before they even face Portugal.
DR Congo may be heavy underdogs, but they’re already winning where it counts off the pitch, taking the fashion battle before kickoff.
Canada’s Jesse Marsch Takes Dig At USA
The Canadian men’s national team is set to face Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday afternoon. Ahead of the match, head coach Jesse Marsch took a subtle jab at the United States men’s national team during his remarks on Thursday.
“In the U.S., we had to beg players to sing the national anthem,” Marsch said.
The United States conducted a months-long search for a new head coach in 2023, with Marsch emerging as the frontrunner and making it clear he wanted the job. Instead, they chose to rehire Gregg Berhalter, a decision that may have left Marsch with some lingering resentment.
Marsch’s subtle jab could take on added stakes if the United States and Canada meet during the FIFA World Cup. The two nations could potentially face off as early as the Round of 32 or the Round of 16.
June 11:
The pressure of competing in the 2026 FIFA World Cup is high, but that hasn’t stopped players from enjoying some downtime with their teammates. Norway star Erling Haaland was spotted at the Stanley Cup Final between the Vegas Golden Knights and the Carolina Hurricanes.
Haaland appeared to be enjoying himself as the Hurricanes secured a Game 5 victory, taking a 3-2 series lead over the Golden Knights. The Manchester City striker drew plenty of attention from fans in attendance as he took in the action from the stands.
The Norway star was seen celebrating in the stands before turning his attention back to international duty, with Norway set to face Iraq in Group 1 play on Tuesday, June 16.
Australia Coach Popovic Signs Extension
Australia coach Tony Popovic has signed a contract extension through early 2027 on the eve of his team’s World Cup opening match against Turkey on Saturday.
Football Australia said Friday that the 52-year-old Popovic’s deal now extends through the Asian Cup, which will take place in January and early February in Saudi Arabia.
The former Australia international was hired in September 2024 and led the Socceroos to qualification for the 48-team tournament.
“I’m proud to lead my country into a World Cup, but most importantly, I want to ensure that our team is fully prepared and focused on our group matches against Turkey, the United States, and Paraguay,” he said of Australia’s opponents in Group D.
Canada Captain Sidelined For Opening Match
Canada’s captain and star defender Alphonso Davies will miss Canada’s World Cup opener against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Davies’ status has been questionable due to an ACL tear and other injuries during the club season, which limited Davies to appearing in two of Canada’s last 21 games.
Davies is one of the co-host’s more valuable players in terms of talent and experience, including 58 appearances in nine years with the national team. However, Davies’ injury does not rule him out of the entire tournament. His injury update and restraint from the opening match serves as a caution to heal his injury as the group stage unfolds.
After playing for the Vancouver Whitecaps in the MLS, Davies transferred to Bayern Munich, where he’s played since 2019. Canada is set to play Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 12, followed by Qatar on June 18 and Switzerland on June 24.
Captain Wataru Endo Withdraws From World Cup
Just ahead of Japan’s opening match against the Netherlands on June 14, captain and midfielder Wataru Endo has withdrawn his name from Japan’s World Cup squad and paired it with his national team retirement, per his statement on X. Endo has been dealing with an ongoing ankle/foot injury since February.
Endo has played for the Japan national team for over a decade, where he made 73 appearances and scored four goals. As a veteran anchor in the midfield, Endo has also served as Japan’s captain since their previous World Cup in 2022, where they reached the Round of 16.
As for Endo’s professional career, he first played for Shanon Bellmare from 2010-15, followed by the Urawa Red Diamonds from 2016-19, VfB Stuttgart from 2019-23 and has played for Liverpool FC since 2023. With Liverpool, Endo played a prominent role in the team’s Carabao Cup victory in 2024.
With Endo out, Japan has officially called Borussia Mönchengladbach midfielder Shuto Machino to join the 26-man roster. Machino is entering his second World Cup and his fifth year with the Japan national team.
Marco Senesi Called Up To 26-Man Roster
Following the injury of defender Leonardo Balerdi, Argentina has officially called up defender Marcos Senesi to the 26-man roster. Argentina is set to open their World Cup campaign on June 16 against Algeria.
Senesi has been training prior in case of a last-minute call-up, and was named to the roster after Balerdi’s muscle injury was ruled out. Senesi has played professionally since 2016, playing for clubs like San Lorenzo, Feyenoord, AFC Bournemouth and is currently with Tottenham Hotspur.
Joining Senesi in the back are defenders Lisandro Martínez, Nicolás Otamendi and Cristian Romero.
In what’s likely to be Lionel Messi’s last World Cup, Argentina will look to repeat their historic 2022 World Cup win this tournament.
Tyler Adams, USA Celebrate Shocking Knicks’ W
Tyler Adams, United States’ midfielder, is a fan of the National Basketball Association’s New York Knicks. The Knicks are in the NBA Finals, on the eve of the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, so members of the United States’ squad gathered together to watch what turned out to be the largest NBA Finals comeback in history, with the Knicks coming out on top.
When New York won, the room erupted, with Adams especially going wild. And we know this because the reaction was caught on camera in the moment.
That couch is destroyed, but at least no one watching the game ended up as damaged as it did after Adams went climbing and kicking all over it! If the United States ends up having a major comeback or win in the World Cup, maybe keep the players away from any obstacles like that, though. Just to be safe.
Morocco Loses 2 Players To Injury Before World Cup
Morocco replaced two injured players in its World Cup squad ahead of an opening game against Brazil, including star winger Abde Ezzalzouli.
FIFA confirmed late Wednesday that former Barcelona player Ezzalzouli and Marseille defender Nayef Aguerd were withdrawn from the Morocco squad for the tournament.
Ezzalzouli helped Real Betis qualify for next season’s Champions League and was a potential breakout star at the World Cup. Aguerd was a cornerstone of Morocco’s historic semifinals team at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
They were replaced by Amine Sbai of French club Angers and Marwane Saadane, who plays in Saudi Arabia for Al Fateh.
Morocco opens against Brazil on Saturday at MetLife Stadium near New York, then plays Scotland on June 19 near Boston and finishes Group C against Haiti on June 24 in Atlanta.
Ezzalzouli injured his right knee in a warmup game against Norway last weekend, though initial tests suggested he could be retained in coach Mohamed Ouahbi’s squad to play in the knockout rounds.
Surprise World Cup Comeback For Austrian Midfielder
The last time Dejan Ljubicic played for Austria was nearly three years ago. Now a teammate’s injury has given him a surprise comeback at the World Cup.
Austria coach Ralf Rangnick called up Ljubicic late Wednesday to replace key midfielder Christoph Baumgartner, who injured his right thigh while warming up for a pre-World Cup friendly against Tunisia last week and needed surgery.
Ljubicic is set to join Austria at the team camp in Santa Barbara on Thursday, ahead of the team’s first game on Tuesday against Jordan. Austria also plays Argentina and Algeria in Group J.
He’s more of a defensive midfield option than Baumgartner, who scored 17 goals in all competitions for Leipzig in Germany last season and has remained in camp to support the team.
Ljubicic also plays in Germany on the Schalke team which secured promotion from the second division last month.
Ljubicic has nine games for Austria but none at a major tournament. His last appearance was in a friendly against Moldova in September 2023, and he wasn’t in the squad for any World Cup qualifiers.
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Shohei Ohtani held out of starting lineup a day after leaving game with knee inflammation
CHICAGO — Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani was out of the lineup Friday against the White Sox after exiting the game before with discomfort in the back of his left knee.
Manager Dave Roberts said Ohtani had imaging done on the knee and showed “the normal wear and tear.”
“He feels fine-ish,” said Roberts, who hopes Ohtani will be back in the lineup this weekend. Ohtani remains in line to make his next pitching start on Wednesday against the Tampa Bay Rays at Dodger Stadium.
Especially at this point in the season, the Dodgers have incentive to play it safe with Ohtani’s recovery. Pushing him to return early and exacerbating the injury would be a larger blow to a team seeking its third straight World Series championship.
With Ohtani out, left fielder Alex Call was in the leadoff spot, and Santiago Espinal served as the designated hitter.
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2026 World Cup Odds: Teams Favored to Advance to Knockout Stage
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With the largest World Cup field in the history of the tournament, 32 of the 48 teams will be fighting for a spot in the knockout stage.
66.6% of nations will advance out of the group stage this summer, which is a massive upgrade from 50% in past World Cups. Because of this, sportsbooks have adjusted with less favorable odds.
Prior to the start of the tournament, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, England, and Germany entered with the strongest odds to advance from the group stage, supported by recent major-tournament success and talent-rich rosters.
All five nations are heavily favored at -10000 to advance to the knockout round.
The Spaniards are the defending European Champions while the Argentinians are looking to win back-to-back titles. Germany has not made it out of the group stage in the last two World Cups, but has always been a perennial contender— having won four titles in its history. And then of course there’s Brazil, which has more titles than any country with five.
Now, after the conclusion of the first day of the World Cup, Mexico has joined the group at the top. El Tri has surged to -10000 to advance to the knockout stage after initially being just -1400. Mexico’s huge leap up the oddsboard is a direct result of its dominating 2-0 win over South Africa.
With that in mind, let’s dive into the odds for each team to advance to the knockout stage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup as of June 12.
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Odds to Advance to Knockout Stage
Spain: -10000 (bet $10 to win $10.10 total)
Argentina: -10000 (bet $10 to win $10.10 total)
Brazil: -10000 (bet $10 to win $10.10 total)
England: -10000 (bet $10 to win $10.10 total)
Mexico: -10000 (bet $10 to win $10.10 total)
Germany: -10000 (bet $10 to win $10.10 total)
Portugal: -5000 (bet $10 to win $10.20 total)
France: -5000 (bet $10 to win $10.20 total)
Belgium:-3500 (bet $10 to win $10.29 total)
South Korea: -2500 (bet $10 to win $10.40 total)
Switzerland: -1800 (bet $10 to win $10.56 total)
Netherlands: -1400 (bet $10 to win $10.71 total)
Morocco: -1000 (bet $10 to win $11 total)
Colombia: -1000 (bet $10 to win $11 total)
Uruguay: -1000 (bet $10 to win $11 total)
Canada: -1000 (bet $10 to win $11 total)
Ecuador: -900 (bet $10 to win $11.11 total)
Norway: -900 (bet $10 to win $11.11 total)
United States: -750 (bet $10 to win $11.33 total)
The U.S. men’s national team is currently -750 to advance from Group D (Photo by Omar Vega/USSF/Getty Images).
Croatia: -500 (bet $10 to win $12 total)
Austria: -500 (bet $10 to win $12 total)
Türkiye: -500 (bet $10 to win $12 total)
Ivory Coast: -500 (bet $10 to win $12 total)
Japan: -500 (bet $10 to win $12 total)
Egypt: -340 (bet $10 to win $12.94 total)
Algeria: -310 (bet $10 to win $13.23 total)
Scotland: -310 (bet $10 to win $13.23 total)
Senegal: -230 (bet $10 to win $14.35 total)
Sweden: -230 (bet $10 to win $1435 total)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: -220 (bet $10 to win $14.55 total)
Paraguay: -205 (bet $10 to win $14.88 total)
Iran: -200 (bet $10 to win $15 total)
Czechia: -165 (bet $10 to win $16.06 total)
Ghana: -140 (bet $10 to win $17.14 total)
Australia: -110 (bet $10 to win $19.09 total)
DR Congo: +100 (bet $10 to win $20 total)
Raúl Jiménez helped propel Mexico to a 2-0 win over South Africa in the opening match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup (Photo by Yair Gonzalez/Jam Media/Getty Images).
Saudi Arabia: +105 (bet $10 to win $20.50 total)
Tunisia: +140 (bet $10 to win $24 total)
New Zealand: +150 (bet $10 to win $25 total)
Uzbekistan: +180 (bet $10 to win $28 total)
Cape Verde: +200 (bet $10 to win $30 total)
Panama: +200 (bet $10 to win $30 total)
Qatar: +275 (bet $10 to win $37.50 total)
South Africa: +320 (bet $10 to win $42 total)
Jordan +350 (bet $10 to win $45 total)
Iraq: +450 (bet $10 to win $55 total)
Haiti: +800 (bet $10 to win $90 total)
Curaçao: +1000 (bet $10 to win $110 total)
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