Jun 26, 2026
Dembele’s first-half hat-trick sends France top of Group I in 4-1 win over Norway
Ousmane Dembele scored a hat-trick inside the opening 32 minutes as France beat Norway 4-1 in Foxborough to win Group I, while a rotated Norway side r...
Group I
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Jun 26, 2026
Senegal hammer 10-man Iraq 5-0 to keep World Cup knockout hopes alive
Senegal thrashed 10-man Iraq 5-0 in Toronto, with Pape Gueye scoring twice off the bench, to finish third in Group I and keep their hopes of a knockou...
Jun 26, 2026
Haaland and Mbappe meet as Norway and France fight for Group I top spot
Two strikers in red-hot form with one place at stake: Norway’s Erling Haaland and France’s Kylian Mbappe go head to head in Foxborough, both already t...
Jun 23, 2026
Haaland’s double sends Norway into the last 32 as Senegal stumble to the brink
Erling Haaland scored twice as Norway beat Senegal 3-2 at MetLife Stadium to reach the round of 32, leaving the African side on zero points and fighti...
Jun 23, 2026
Mbappe’s double sends France into the last 32 after a storm-hit win over Iraq
Kylian Mbappe struck either side of a two-hour weather delay and Ousmane Dembele finally scored at a major tournament as France beat Iraq to seal a pl...
Jun 22, 2026
Mbappe’s France and Haaland’s Norway eye the last 32 on Group I’s big Monday
Group I’s two early leaders, France and Erling Haaland’s Norway, can both reach the last 32 on Monday night, while Senegal and Iraq fight to keep thei...
Jun 17, 2026
Haaland marks his World Cup debut with a brace as Norway sink Iraq
Erling Haaland scored twice on his World Cup debut as Norway beat Iraq 4-1 in their first appearance at the finals since 1998.
Jun 16, 2026
Mbappe’s record-breaking brace sends France past Senegal at the World Cup
Kylian Mbappe scored twice to become France’s all-time leading goalscorer as they recovered from a sluggish start to beat Senegal 3-1 in their World C...
Jun 16, 2026
Two World Cup returns collide as Haaland’s Norway open against Iraq
Erling Haaland finally reaches a World Cup as Norway end a 28-year absence, but their Group I opener against an Iraq side back for the first time sinc...
Jun 15, 2026
France open Deschamps’s farewell World Cup against a dangerous Senegal
Didier Deschamps begins his farewell tournament as France open Group I against a Senegal side that knows exactly how to upset the favourites, with kic...
Jun 11, 2026
Norway are the World Cup dark horse nobody will want to draw
After 28 years away, Norway have arrived at the World Cup with Haaland, Odegaard and a perfect qualifying run behind them. They are the dark horse the...
Jun 8, 2026
Five goals from history: Mbappe and the World Cup record within his reach
Kylian Mbappe goes to North America 12 World Cup goals into his career and five short of Miroslav Klose’s all-time record. At 27, the maths is suddenl...
Jun 4, 2026
Mbappe, Haaland and the closest thing this World Cup has to a group of death
France, Senegal, Norway and Iraq landed in the same pool, and an expanded World Cup built to avoid carnage handed Group I the heaviest draw of the lot...