The 2026 World Cup — Day 19

Some tasty action in the Round of 32 tonight, with Brazil, Germany and the Netherlands all facing some interesting competition:

Monday 29 June 2026

21:30 Germany v Paraguay — BBC 102:00 Netherlands v Morocco — ITV 1

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Dave Abrahams 1 Posted 29/06/2026 at 17:42:08

What time does the Brazil v Japan game start tonight?

Not sure who I want to win which is strange for me because I usually go for Brazil no matter how good they are but Japan have a really good team of skill and pace so I’m expecting a good game with a few goals.

I’ll just go for the best team on the night!

Don Wright 2 Posted 29/06/2026 at 17:49:52

1800 Dave ie ten mins

Paul Griffiths 3 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:05:17

Japan all day long. Love watching them play.

This Brazil team is not the Brazil team of olden days but I bet they win.

Liam Mogan 4 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:16:41

I dropped some shopping of at my 90 year old mother in laws today and the first thing she said to me was she hoped Japan get beat.

She has no interest in football, but when it looked at the TV she was watching an afternoon re-run of Tenko!

Dale Self 5 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:20:49

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Dale Self 6 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:22:59

Nice! Telemundo foregoes the revenue and stays with the stadium. Okay, a quick border ad, no problema.

Mike Powell 7 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:27:53

Get to Japan!!!

Liam Mogan 8 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:28:25

Banzai!

Dale Self 9 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:28:39

And the Japanese crowd goes on the counterattack! Gooooool!

Love those goals that roll in from distance.

Paul Griffiths 10 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:29:23

GET IN!

Liam Mogan 11 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:29:39

Casemiro totally exposed

Paul Griffiths 12 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:30:24

Shocking defending by Gabriel

Liam Mogan 13 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:32:02

Daisy cutter. Great strike

Mark Ryan 14 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:34:32

I have Japan to win 2-1 lol !! c'mon you blues

Paul Griffiths 15 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:35:06

Take away Vinny JR and Brazil are a top 6 Prem team

Dale Self 16 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:38:30

Brazil does not look like they have the speed or guile to break them down. They may need a mistake to get going.

Paul Griffiths 17 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:40:15

Casemiro needs subbing Crosby Carlo

Liam Mogan 18 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:42:40

Although Japan have limited possession, they are very clever with it.

Brazil look to be relying on individual brilliance.

Dale Self 19 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:51:05

Japan has some impressive ways of supporting the players coming back into the middle from the forward lines.

They always have an outlet to run into space left by man coverage.

Andrew Merrick 20 Posted 29/06/2026 at 18:59:37

Japan are such a tidy team, tidy shape, not wasteful, purpose and choice in everything they do. Happy to surrender some possesion, because when they turn it over they act instantly as a team. This level of organisation and understanding is a joy to watch.

Mike Powell 21 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:00:32

Get in Japan not get to Japan

Liam Mogan 22 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:01:20

How Joao Pedro is not in this squad makes no sense

Dale Self 23 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:04:13

Good point. And I notice Tomiyasu healed up, would have taken him.

Can Endrick be the spark?

Liam Mogan 24 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:11:20

Lee Dixon talks wham most of the time but he's right about Brazil being awful out of possession

Dale Self 25 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:14:02

That was exciting.

Mark Ryan 26 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:14:41

Lee Dixon. More boring than Father Austin Purcell from Father Ted. What's you favourite humming noise Ted ? Mines Mmmmmm or sometimes mmmm. Fucks sake Lee, shut the fuck up

Michael Kenrick 27 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:16:13

Carlo has whipped them into action!

Brilliant far-post header. No way you are defending that!

Dale Self 28 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:18:39

Tomiyasu got scorched.

That look on Suzuki's face was priceless.

Liam Mogan 29 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:18:45

Casemiro can hardly run but he's great in the air.

Japan so lucky not to be behind. Great save!

Michael Kenrick 30 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:30:00

Carlo has been playing Fifa Connect 26 on his whiteboard and is ready for the masterstroke!

Jeff Armstrong 31 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:31:33

Mark 26, Dixon has been on ITV for years, I don't know how he gets away with it.

I have never ever heard anyone saying Dixon is a decent pundit, he is a boring cunt.

Liam Mogan 32 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:52:26

At last a proper World Cup tussle

Mark Ryan 33 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:54:02

Jeff, don't sit on the fence, say what you think ha ha. Could not agree more, a truly dreadful boring co-commentator

Darren Hind 34 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:56:42

Fuck me. They've won it

Andrew Merrick 35 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:57:54

Japan couldn't live with Brazil second half. Deserve this now.

Liam Mogan 36 Posted 29/06/2026 at 19:59:50

The Leeds player Tanaka completely funked up

Darren Hind 37 Posted 29/06/2026 at 20:02:13

Fuck me. They've won it

Michael Kenrick 38 Posted 29/06/2026 at 20:02:40

Perhaps Carlo really is a magician after all!

Just not with us...

John Collins 39 Posted 29/06/2026 at 20:03:27

Pleasure to watch that. Only the second full game I've watched up to now. Great side Japan

Liam Mogan 40 Posted 29/06/2026 at 20:03:48

He was dressed a bit like a magician

Christy Ring 41 Posted 29/06/2026 at 20:12:00

Tough on Japan, not a good Brazilian team, Rayan very poor, and leaving Richarlison and Pedro at home and bringing Neymar, who's not match fit, a big call by Carlo. If they get through and England in the last eight, that's as far as they'll go.

Dale Self 42 Posted 29/06/2026 at 20:12:25

That was a decent match. Japan could not create anything once Doan was subbed. Still like them though.

Dave Abrahams 43 Posted 29/06/2026 at 20:27:14

I thought Japan deserved to go off at half time ahead, their performance was well described by Andrew @ (20) but in the second half they were second best for most of the time although I was still fearful for Brazil when Japan broke away two or three times but in the end they were well worth their victory even if it was very late.

They are still in it and with a player like Vinny Jnr. they could progress further relying on his individual brilliance.

I enjoyed that game well worth watching and hopefully we see a few more proper football matches in the next couple of weeks.

Tony Abrahams 44 Posted 29/06/2026 at 20:31:34

I usually really enjoy watching Japan, but I wasn’t that impressed with them today, simply because I didn’t think that really tried to play close enough to each other imo.

It’s a gruelling tournament, I expect the stronger nations to keep going whereas I’m not sure the smaller nations that have been doing really well, have got enough in their squads to sustain playing at this level, now we have reached the knockout stages and the competition begins to intensify?