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Jonathan Howcroft
Hello everybody and invited to unrecorded sum of lucifer six of nan 2026 World Cup betwixt Asutralia and Turkey. Kick-off successful this Group D conflict astatine Vancouver Stadium is 9pm section clip (2pm AEST/12am EST/5am BST).
This is simply a fixture pinch refined discourse pursuing nan USA exploding retired of nan blocks against Paraguay. The tourney co-hosts laid down a important marker for Group D supremacy to nan highly fancied Turkey, while Australia must person watched Los Guaraníes toiling pinch expanding assurance astatine slightest 3rd spot is theirs for nan taking.
The Socceroos only qualified for 1 World Cup up to 2006 but since that coming retired statement successful Germany they person been ever-present. They overachieved successful Qatar, reaching nan knockout shape for only nan 2nd time, and winning doubly for nan first clip successful finals history.
Remarkably, this is only Turkey’s 3rd World Cup, and their first since 2002 erstwhile they vanished third. They person been connected a dependable rankings emergence since 2024, a tally that coincides pinch nan emergence of 2 of nan brightest stars successful nan game, Real Madrid’s Arda Guler, and Juventus’s Kenan Yildiz. Much is expected of that brace of 21 twelvemonth olds.
There is plentifulness of clip earlier kick-off truthful settee in, bask nan 2nd half of Haiti v Scotland, and nonstop maine immoderate emails to get nan speech flowing.
