{"id":75101,"date":"2026-06-20T03:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/world-cup-2026-scotland-fall-flat-usa-into-knockouts-turkeys-tears-and-almirons-red-for-covering-mouth-live\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T03:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T08:55:02","slug":"world-cup-2026-scotland-fall-flat-usa-into-knockouts-turkeys-tears-and-almirons-red-for-covering-mouth-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/world-cup-2026-scotland-fall-flat-usa-into-knockouts-turkeys-tears-and-almirons-red-for-covering-mouth-live\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Scotland fall flat; USA into knockouts; Turkey\u2019s tears and Alm\u00edron\u2019s red for covering mouth \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd All the latest news from day nine of the tournament<br \/>\u26bd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/world-cup-2026-complete-player-guide\">Player guide<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/bracketology-predict-a-path-to-world-cup-victory\">Bracketology<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jun\/04\/golden-boot-world-cup-2026-top-goalscorers-winner\">Golden Boot<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:matchday.live@guardian.co.uk\">Email us<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s been a star striker\u2019s tournament<\/strong> so far \u2013 aside from the immobile slab of monetised wax playing at No 7 for Portugal \u2013 and that\u2019s reflected in the big names already nestled in Golden Boot top 10. Here\u2019s the current hit parade:<\/p>\n<p><strong>A first dive into the old mailbag<\/strong> produces this, from Gerry Scott, with which I heartily concur:<\/p>\n<p>If best placed third placed teams are going to be able to advance from the group then goal difference should be preferred to head to head as a way of ranking teams. T\u00fcrkiye should at least have the prospect of beating the US and overtaking one of Paraguay or Australia rather than already being out of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure Gianni will be on it soon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/jun\/20\/world-cup-2026-scotland-morocco-usa-australia-netherlands-sweden-germany-cote-d-ivoire-ecuador-curacao-tunisia-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u26bd All the latest news from day nine of the tournament\u26bd Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Email us It\u2019s been a star striker\u2019s tournament so far \u2013 aside from the immobile slab of monetised wax playing at No 7 for Portugal \u2013 and that\u2019s reflected in the big names already nestled in &#8230; <a title=\"World Cup 2026: Scotland fall flat; USA into knockouts; Turkey\u2019s tears and Alm\u00edron\u2019s red for covering mouth \u2013 live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/world-cup-2026-scotland-fall-flat-usa-into-knockouts-turkeys-tears-and-almirons-red-for-covering-mouth-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about World Cup 2026: Scotland fall flat; USA into knockouts; Turkey\u2019s tears and Alm\u00edron\u2019s red for covering mouth \u2013 live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}