{"id":1416808,"date":"2026-07-12T09:45:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/semi-finals-like-finals-the-quartet-of-top-teams-at-the-2026-world-cup-has-been-determined\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T09:48:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:48:56","slug":"semi-finals-like-finals-the-quartet-of-top-teams-at-the-2026-world-cup-has-been-determined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/semi-finals-like-finals-the-quartet-of-top-teams-at-the-2026-world-cup-has-been-determined\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-finals like finals: the quartet of top teams at the 2026 World Cup has been determined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"124\" data-end=\"242\"><strong data-start=\"124\" data-end=\"154\">On the night of Sunday, July 12, the quarter-final matches of the 2026 World Cup concluded and all<\/strong> <strong data-start=\"221\" data-end=\"236\">semi-final<\/strong> <strong>pairs<\/strong> were determined.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"244\" data-end=\"515\">Extra time was required to determine the winners in both quarterfinal matches on July 12. <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/norway-vs-england-live-streaming-and-text-coverage-of-the-2026-world-cup-quarterfinal-match\/\"><strong>England defeated Norway 2-1<\/strong><\/a>, while reigning world champions <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/argentina-vs-switzerland-live-streaming-and-text-coverage-of-the-2026-world-cup-quarterfinal-match\/\"><strong>Argentina defeated Switzerland 3-1<\/strong><\/a>, with the Swiss finishing the match with 10 men.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"517\" data-end=\"553\">The semi-final pairings look like this:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"517\" data-end=\"553\">\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e1fc9011-28ae-43f7-9728-b0e55a1d41bc.png\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"555\" data-end=\"608\">We also remind you how all the quarter-final matches ended:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"555\" data-end=\"608\">\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4362674d-9fbd-43d6-a4af-9365ee9e46c3.png\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"610\" data-end=\"853\">The semifinal matches will take place <strong data-start=\"639\" data-end=\"657\">on July 14 and 15.<\/strong> They will feature <strong data-start=\"678\" data-end=\"699\">France vs. Spain<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"703\" data-end=\"725\">Argentina vs. England<\/strong>, respectively. Both matches kick off at 10:00 PM Kyiv time. Each match is well-deserved to be called a final.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow &#8220;Pryamy&#8221; 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>On the night of Sunday, July 12, the quarter-final matches of the 2026 World Cup concluded and all semi-final pairs were determined. Extra time was required to determine the winners in both quarterfinal matches on July 12. England defeated Norway 2-1, while reigning world champions Argentina defeated Switzerland 3-1, with the Swiss finishing the match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1416801,"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-1416808","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\/1416808","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=1416808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416810,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416808\/revisions\/1416810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1416801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}