Brazil vs Norway FIFA World Cup Live Score: BRA takes on NOR in RO16. (AP) Brazil vs Norway Score, FIFA World Cup 2026 Live: Two of the most talked-about forwards in world football will square off at the New York New Jersey Stadium, also known as MetLife Stadium, when Brazil’s Vinicius Junior and Norway’s Erling Haaland face off in a highly-anticipated World Cup Round of 16 match. Brazil have never beaten Norway when these two teams have played each other 4 times. Both Haaland and Vinicius are familiar foes in the Champions League, where Brazil’s Real Madrid and Norwegian Manchester

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The restless Belgium manager, tasked with defending talented but goal-shy stars like Romelu Lukaku and Kevin De Bruyne, as well as on-field hell-raisers Troissard and Tielemans, is getting some belated respect. Reason: Belgium’s comeback win against Senegal 3-2 is unlikely. Garcia, the 62-year-old coach of the Red Devils (not a famous name), is upset about everything: his players are washed up, his players are old, his players argue and fight, his players like Lukaku don’t play when needed, his players waste their own talent and Belgium’s time. And he defends them like the diamonds of Antwerp. He scribbles notes on

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Romelu Lukaku mastered the art of deception at a young age. In 2026, Arriving in Belgium The Round of 16 in the World Cup – where they will face the US – seems almost routine. In 2002, it was anything but. Four years after embarrassing France ’98, Belgium exited the group stage unbeaten. Marc Wilmots – admired by the country, and Mbo Mpenza – admired by Lukaku, as he was Belgium’s first black striker at the World Cup and, like Lukaku, had roots in the Congo. Antwerp school students, therefore, had only one topic to discuss during the summer of

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Read 3 minutes5 Jul 2026 03:58 PM IST Norway didn’t carry the burden of Brazil’s name, but the Europeans denied Italy an automatic place at the World Cup and a balanced squad with some players around whom teams must plan. Erling Haaland scored at an astonishing pace for the Norwegians and has been part of the World Cup Golden Boot race for years. Now he faces a Brazil team that has visited the event with uncharacteristic pragmatism – a direct result of Carlo Ancelotti taking over the reins. Ahead of the big clash between the two teams at MetLife Stadium

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Read 3 minutes5 Jul 2026 02:55 PM IST France head coach Didier Deschamps has backed Kylian Mbappe as the captain faces scrutiny over his leadership style, saying the forward’s portrayal in the public eye is far from the reality in the dressing room. Deschamps addressed criticism following France’s quarter-final qualification and brushed aside claims that Mbappe had been transformed by the captain’s armband. “No, he hasn’t changed. You guys are making Kylian Mbappe look like a dictator… the reality is the opposite,” Deschamps told reporters after the match. Deschamps addressed the growing chatter around Mbappe’s public persona, which has become

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Read 4 minutes5 Jul 2026 12:11 PM IST When Norway beat Brazil in the 1998 World Cup, writer and cartoonist R Calvo zeroed in on an iconic image from the game. In the famous frame, a very skinny Tore Andre Flo of Norway tries to break free from a stocky Brazilian junior, Byano. Flo was agape in the grainy photograph, Bayano’s eyes twinkling as he held his shirt back like a belt. The referee would award Norway a penalty giving them a historic 2-1 win over the multiple world champions. It was pure theater and Kalvø was inspired. Years later,

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Read 3 minutesPhiladelphiaUpdated: 5 July 2026 08:29 AM IST France manager Didier Deschamps has said there is a fear of injury for his star forward Kylian Mbappe against Paraguay. The Paraguayans treated him so cruelly that he stumbled several times. So he asked two of his biggest teammates to guard him. “I told the two oldest boys to go and stand around Kylian at the end because they were going to break him,” Deschamps said. So dying keeper Deot Upamecano was pushed on at the last minute so he could endure a hack aimed at Mbappe. He accomplished his goal

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The goal is much more than the rudimentary act of pushing an artificial goal into a polypropylene net. Take, for example, Azzedine Onahi’s 50th-minute goal in Morocco’s 3-0 win over Canada at the FIFA World Cup. There was cigarette smoke drifting through the cracked window. All 10 Canadian players swarmed the box when Onahi took his shot. It had the art of a seamstress threading a needle through a crowd’s eye. There were three defenders and a goalkeeper between the path of the ball and the net. But how reprehensible is it to suggest that a goal could be classified

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Read 6 minutesPhiladelphia (USA)Updated: 5 July 2026 06:51 AM IST The gloriously multi-faceted French know many ways to kill a pesky cat that disturbs their sleep. They could startle them with their touch; They can seduce them with their wits; They can pin them with their muscles; They can play the piano, they can even wield a sledgehammer, making them one of the deadliest propositions in the competition. 1-0 win over Paraguay Ensuring a quarter-final was their victory for Brown, his ability to outmaneuver men trying to wrestle, sometimes literally, and sometimes harming him with a brand of cynicism that

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Read 3 minutesUpdated: 4 July 2026 12:47 PM IST The difference between Cape Verde and the biggest upset in World Cup history whose own goals will be a difficult time for Dine Borges. He will feel that a stellar defensive performance in the group stage and in the Round of 32 against Argentina was also neutralized by a moment that can only be described as bad luck. In fact, Lionel Messi and Borges’ inch-perfect corner from ill-fated interference could have been a copybook goal, had it not been so brutal. If he hadn’t got his head – that was hand

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