St. Louis CITY’s Unbeaten Run Reaches 12 Matches
St. Louis CITY SC extended their MLS unbeaten streak to 12 matches following a 3-3 draw against FC Dallas at Energizer Park on August 30.
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15 Football posts · 32 published in total · last post 31 Aug 2026
Portland Timbers Games Keep Hitting Over 2.5 Goals
Portland Timbers have gone 8 straight matches with over 2.5 goals, including a 5-2 win over Puebla and a 3-1 loss to Club America.
2 min read Portland Timbers
Blunt Attack, Leaky Defense: Inside Sporting KC’s 2026 Crisis
Sporting Kansas City have gone 2 straight matches without a goal, extending a drought that mirrors a season defined by leaky defending and low scoring.
2 min read Sporting Kansas City
Leagues Cup Win Offers Hope Amidst Sounders' Deepening Slump
Seattle Sounders snapped a seven-match losing streak with a 3-0 Leagues Cup win. A breakdown of the numbers behind their summer slump and ongoing MLS struggles.
4 min read Seattle Sounders
Flawless July for Los Angeles FC
Los Angeles FC has won four consecutive MLS matches, outscoring opponents 11–1 since late May.
4 min read Los Angeles FC
A 90-minute preview: friendlies between 2026 group opponents
Some of the teams that will face each other in the group stage have already played warm-ups against each other. Here's what those friendlies looked like. And what they don't tell us.
4 min read
Meet the World Cup 2026 debutants
Forty-eight teams means countries who've never been to a World Cup will finally play in one. Who they are, who they're drawn against, and how the new format gives them a path past the group stage.
5 min read Cape Verde · Curaçao
World Cup penalty shootouts: who chokes, who delivers
Germany have never lost one. England have rarely won. Every World Cup penalty shootout since they were introduced in 1982, the team records they've built, and why 2026's larger bracket guarantees more of them.
5 min read Germany · Argentina
Disciplined and dirty: the World Cup's card kings
Argentina rack them up. Switzerland barely get them. The national teams with the worst (and best) World Cup discipline, the players with the longest rap sheets, and the matches that still hold the record for sheer chaos.
5 min read Argentina · Uruguay
The Group of Death, then and now
A 'group of death' is a group where every team has been there before. And the World Cup wins to prove it. The historical groups with the deepest combined pedigree, and which of 2026's twelve groups deserves the title this time.
5 min read
Hungary 10-1, Brazil 1-7: anatomy of a World Cup blowout
The biggest goal differences in World Cup history. And what makes 2026's expanded knockout bracket more likely to produce another knockout-round humiliation.
5 min read Brazil · Germany
Why second-half goals dominate modern World Cups
Before 1990, World Cup goals split roughly evenly between the two halves. Since then they haven't. The data on every tournament going back to 1930, and why the second-half share keeps creeping up.
4 min read
Each country's top World Cup scorer. And who's chasing them in 2026
Messi sits on thirteen for Argentina. Ronaldo sits on eight for Portugal. Mbappé has twelve for France. Five countries whose all-time WC scoring record could fall in 2026. And one where the ghost is untouchable.
4 min read Argentina · Portugal
Hosts in the World Cup opener: 8 unbeaten, then Qatar
Mexico opens 2026 against a South Africa returning after sixteen years. Nine times a host has played their tournament's opening match. Eight times they didn't lose. Then Ecuador beat Qatar.
4 min read Mexico · South Africa
Four World Cup records 2026 could break (and one that won't)
48 teams, 104 matches, and a generation of scorers within striking distance. Four records to watch in 2026, and one that isn't going anywhere.
4 min read Argentina · France