Brazil v Japan: World Cup 2026 last 32 – live

⚽ Kick-off time: 12pm local/1pm EDT/6pm BST/3am AET ⚽ Bracketology | Player guide | Golden Boot | Email Tim The last (and first) World Cup match I covered took four hours. That was France v Iraq, the game that, thanks to lightning in Philadelphia, had a two-hour half-time. But lightning doesn’t strike twice and the BBC forecast assures us that Houston will be “sunny with a gentle breeze”. Quite toasty too: 33 or 34 degrees. It feels as if everyone in football knows Carlo Ancelotti, but Rodrygo, of Real Madrid and Brazil, knows him better than most. Ancelotti, he believes, is “driven by a phenomenal coherence”. Not something that can be said of every manager. Continue reading...