{"id":75459,"date":"2026-06-28T03:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/world-cup-2026-power-rankings-france-still-kings-but-who-has-climbed-26-places\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T03:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:56:30","slug":"world-cup-2026-power-rankings-france-still-kings-but-who-has-climbed-26-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/world-cup-2026-power-rankings-france-still-kings-but-who-has-climbed-26-places\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 power rankings: France still kings but who has climbed 26 places?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Algeria to Uzbekistan, we assess the standing of the 48 nations after the group stage of the tournament<\/p>\n<p>It took a little over an hour for Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 to find his groove. Irked by a poor refereeing decision, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/16\/france-senegal-world-cup-group-i-match-report\">scored twice in France\u2019s opener<\/a>. Ably supported by a stunning cast, Mbapp\u00e9 will already have his sights on winning the competition. Michael Olise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/20\/michael-olise-france-world-cup-didier-deschamps\">has shown his class throughout<\/a>, while Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/26\/france-norway-world-cup-group-i-match-report\">dazzled with a hat-trick against Norway<\/a>. We\u2019ll see if anyone can stop Didier Deschamps\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/28\/world-cup-2026-power-rankings-france-argentina-england-scotland\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Algeria to Uzbekistan, we assess the standing of the 48 nations after the group stage of the tournament It took a little over an hour for Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 to find his groove. Irked by a poor refereeing decision, he scored twice in France\u2019s opener. Ably supported by a stunning cast, Mbapp\u00e9 will already have &#8230; <a title=\"World Cup 2026 power rankings: France still kings but who has climbed 26 places?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/world-cup-2026-power-rankings-france-still-kings-but-who-has-climbed-26-places\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about World Cup 2026 power rankings: France still kings but who has climbed 26 places?\">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-75459","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\/75459","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=75459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}