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This World Cup’s expanded format has stretched out the group stage, meaning eight sides have had to wait nearly a week since the start of the tournament to get started, but after today all 48 teams participating in the 2026 World Cup will have played a match. bettingx.club

England will start their campaign against Croatia in a rematch of the 2018 World Cup semi-final, while Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal will take on the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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El Real Madrid sigue moviéndose con fuerza en el mercado y tiene claro cuál es una de sus prioridades para este verano: fichar un central. Así lo desveló Matteo Moretto durante su intervención en La Pizarra, el programa de Radio MARCA presentado por Miguel Quintana, Adrián Blanco y Álex de Llano, donde aseguró que la dirección deportiva blanca trabaja activamente para reforzar el eje de la defensa. "Me han dicho que quiere firmar al 100% un central más", afirmó el periodista italiano al analizar los movimientos del conjunto madridista.

This week’s newsletter spends a day with the Italy midfielder as she continues to battle her way back to a peak physical condition

“It was accepting that I couldn’t play football because it was my life. It was everything that I knew.” For Everton’s Aurora Galli, the past 20 months have been anything but straightforward. Her return from a serious knee injury has been difficult, one beset with obstacles before, ultimately, a long-awaited comeback.

It was September 2024, 83 minutes and three seconds into the first game of the Women’s Super League season to be exact, when Galli went down in agony. Everton were losing 4-0 to Brighton and, in her eagerness to salvage something for her team, the midfielder attempted to challenge for the ball when her standing leg buckled. As expected, it was confirmed that she had ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament.

This is an extract from our free email about women’s football, Moving the Goalposts. To get the full edition, visit this page and follow the instructions. Moving the Goalposts will be sent out once a week, on Wednesdays, in the close season but will be back on Tuesdays and Thursdays from September.

England’s second Test day one kicks off at 11am BST at the Kia Oval. Captain Joe Root calls the toss, confirms a green‑pace attack and highlights the pitch as a great opportunity for his pace bowlers to build on last week’s success.