{"id":1407738,"date":"2026-06-20T10:28:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-first-losers-of-the-2026-world-cup-turkiye-and-haiti-are-eliminated\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:31:15","slug":"the-first-losers-of-the-2026-world-cup-turkiye-and-haiti-are-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-first-losers-of-the-2026-world-cup-turkiye-and-haiti-are-eliminated\/","title":{"rendered":"The first losers of the 2026 World Cup: T\u00fcrkiye and Haiti are eliminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1571\" data-end=\"1707\"><strong data-start=\"1571\" data-end=\"1707\">The 2026 World Cup has seen its first guaranteed eliminations: Turkey in Group D and Haiti in Group C.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1712\" data-end=\"2069\">Before the 2026 World Cup, Haiti was expected to fail to advance past its group stage. Turkey, however, was certainly expected to be better. However, after <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/turkiye-vs-paraguay-live-streaming-of-the-2026-world-cup-match\/\"><strong>Turkey&#8217;s unexpected 0-1 defeat to Paraguay<\/strong><\/a>, the Janissaries now have zero points. Turkey&#8217;s next match against the United States will be purely a formality, but the Americans may well want to win every match in the group stage.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2074\" data-end=\"2205\">The Americans have already won two matches and secured first place in <strong>Group D.<\/strong> In the second round, they <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/usa-vs-australia-live-streaming-and-text-coverage-of-the-2026-world-cup-match\/\"><strong>defeated the Australians 2-0<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2210\" data-end=\"2281\">Second place in the third round will be played between Australia and Paraguay.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2286\" data-end=\"2349\"><strong data-start=\"2286\" data-end=\"2349\">The positions of the teams in Group D after the second round look like this:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2354\" data-end=\"2367\"><em data-start=\"2354\" data-end=\"2367\">\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d5132c54-e35c-4538-bcc2-4d06d5eeff1d.png\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2372\" data-end=\"2646\">There were no surprises in <strong>Group C.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/scotland-vs-morocco-live-streaming-and-text-coverage-of-the-2026-world-cup-match\/\"><strong>Morocco narrowly defeated Scotland 1-0<\/strong><\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/brazil-haiti-video-and-text-online-broadcast-of-the-2026-world-cup-match\/\"><strong>Brazil crushed Haiti 3-0<\/strong><\/a>. But heading into the third round, three teams have the opportunity to battle for first and second place. Third place could also be a ticket to the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2651\" data-end=\"2714\"><strong data-start=\"2651\" data-end=\"2714\">The positions of the teams in Group C after the second round look like this:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2719\" data-end=\"2732\"><em data-start=\"2719\" data-end=\"2732\">\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d0be4a1e-6f9f-44a5-8b7a-baa176945263.png\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2719\" data-end=\"2732\">Two matches are scheduled for Saturday, June 20: the Netherlands vs. Sweden and Germany vs. Ivory Coast. Kickoffs are at 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM Kyiv time, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 World Cup has seen its first guaranteed eliminations: Turkey in Group D and Haiti in Group C. Before the 2026 World Cup, Haiti was expected to fail to advance past its group stage. Turkey, however, was certainly expected to be better. However, after Turkey&#8217;s unexpected 0-1 defeat to Paraguay, the Janissaries now have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1407729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76873,76895,77323],"class_list":["post-1407738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-events","category-sports","category-fifa-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407740,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407738\/revisions\/1407740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1407729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}