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10am-6pm (BST)World Cup news liveblog<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s action will be reviewed and Saturday\u2019s previewed in our daily World Cup news liveblog helmed on Saturday by Rob Smyth and Will Unwin. There\u2019s no better gateway to the weekend\u2019s World Cup action, bringing you all the breaking news and colour from tournament\u2019s first round of group games. Before Scotland get their campaign gets rolling as they face Haiti near Boston in the early hours of Sunday morning and Australia meet Turkey in Vancouver, Qatar confront Switzerland near San Francisco and, in the day\u2019s big game, Brazil and Morocco collide in New York\/New Jersey. Keeping pace with the day\u2019s events couldn\u2019t be easier with our World Cup daily guide. Click here<\/a> for details on how to follow the action, day by day. Or why not print our excellent wallchart, here<\/a>?<\/p>\n Cricket<\/p>\n 10.30amWomen\u2019s T20 World Cup live<\/p>\n Cricket is staging its own World Cup in England and before the day\u2019s football we\u2019ll have over-by-over coverage of Scotland v Ireland in the second game of the Women\u2019s T20 World Cup (10.30am) followed by a crunch clash between Australia, the defending champions, and South Africa (2.30pm). Tim de Lisle and Daniel Gallan are our blog hosts. We won\u2019t be forgetting the domestic action and Tanya Aldred will be bringing County Championship updates on day two of the latest games from 11am.<\/p>\n Formula One<\/p>\n 3pmBarcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix qualifying live <\/p>\n Philip Cornwall is at the wheel for our rolling report from qualifying at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Mercedes\u2019 Kimi Antonelli again claimed the glory with a fifth consecutive victory of the season in Monaco and Ferrari\u2019s Lewis Hamilton was back on the podium once again in second, with the rest of the placings affected by a penalty controversy. Hamilton, F1\u2019s all-time leading race winner, appears to have turned a corner after a frustrating first season with Ferrari last year finished without a top-three finish. Hamilton enters round seven second in the points standings behind the teenage sensation. Britain\u2019s former world champion hasn\u2019t savored victory since winning the Belgium GP in July 2024 \u2013 could this be his return to the top step? Luke McLaughlin reports.<\/p>\n Lewis Hamilton will be looking to improve on his second place at Monaco. Photograph: Simon Galloway\/LAT Images<\/p>\n World Cup<\/p>\n 8pm (12pm ET)Qatar v Switzerland live<\/p>\n Qatar take on Switzerland in their World Cup opener eager to shake off the pressure of expectation, coming in as back-to-back Asian champions with an urgent need to make amends for a dismal debut as hosts of the 2022 tournament. Qatar\u2019s 2022 unravelling was unprecedented, losing all three matches and scoring once, but, after rebounding to defend their Asian Cup title and qualifying easily for this World Cup, they have unfinished business and need a strong showing to earn any credibility on the global stage. They might have hoped for a more gentle introduction, with the resurgent Swiss unbeaten in competitive matches since late 2024 following an impressive Euros run, and keen to make a mark in their sixth successive World Cup. John Brewin helms the live blog.<\/p>\n World Cup <\/p>\n 11pm (6pm ET) Brazil v Morocco live<\/p>\n Brazil begin their latest hunt for a long-awaited sixth World Cup star on their shirts with little room for a gentle landing, facing impressive Morocco in a Group C opener that will test their ability to cope with a lengthy injury list. The record five-time winners arrive in North America under Carlo Ancelotti, whose World Cup debut as a coach comes a little over a year after he left Real Madrid following a glittering haul of European titles to take on one of football\u2019s most demanding rescue missions. Brazil have endured three turbulent years, four managers and a series of disappointments, while Neymar\u2019s long decline from untouchable talisman to fitness gamble has added uncertainty. Follow the game live with Jeff Rueter, Pablo Iglesias Maurer and Alexander Abnos. Ed Aarons and Leander Schaerlaeckens report from the MetLife Stadium.<\/p>\n Neymar\u2019s decline hasn\u2019t affected his popularity as shown by this piece of street art in Novo Hamburgo, Brazil, which was created by artist Rafael Jung. Photograph: Diego Vara\/ReutersSunday<\/p>\n World Cup<\/p>\n 2am (9pm ET)Haiti v Scotland live<\/p>\n It is Scotland\u2019s first World Cup finals match for 28 years and they cannot afford to start their campaign gently against Haiti, with with both teams in need of a quick win in their opener before colliding with tougher opposition in the next two games. Brazil and Morocco \u2013 who defeated Spain and Portugal en route to the semi-finals in 2022 \u2013 are also in Group C, putting pressure on Les Grenadiers under their French coach, S\u00e9bastien Mign\u00e9, and Steve Clarke\u2019s Scotland to take all three points. Tom Bassam helms our minute-by-minute blog with Ewan Murray and Paul MacInnes reporting from the Boston Stadium.<\/p>\n World Cup <\/p>\n 5am (12am ET, 2pm AEST)Australia v Turkey live<\/p>\n Arda Guler will lead a hungry Turkey side as they make their return to the World Cup finals for the first time in more than two decades against an Australia squad brimming with youthful vigour in their Group D opener. Despite strong showings in the Euros of late, Turkey have not played at a World Cup finals since making the last four in 2002, and, though the 21-year-old Guler was not even born back then, he will bear his side\u2019s attacking hopes on his young shoulders. The Socceroos have rung the changes and could have 17 World Cup debutants at this tournament, including two uncapped players in Tete Yengi, 25, and the 22-year-old striker Cristian Volpato, who switched allegiance from Italy just before the tournament. Jonathan Howcroft brings all the action minute-by-minute with Jack Snape reporting from Vancouver\u2019s BC Place.<\/p>\n Turkey\u2019s Arda Guler looks up for the cup. Photograph: Robert Cianflone\/Fifa\/Getty Images<\/p>\n World Cup<\/p>\n 8am-4pmWorld Cup news liveblog<\/p>\n Emillia Hawkins, Billy Munday and Yara El-Shaboury are our Sunday liveblog crew, and they\u2019ll be unpicking the threads from all Saturday and Sunday morning\u2019s early games as well as looking forward to the rest of the day\u2019s fixtures. Our first World Cup MBM report of the day is Cura\u00e7ao\u2019s tournament debut, against Germany in Houston, at 6pm BST\/1pm EST, before live coverage of the tantalising Netherlands v Japan Group F fixture (9pm BST\/4pm EST). A hectic week concludes with our MBM reports of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire v Ecuador at midnight BST\/7pm EST and Sweden v Tunisia (3am BST, 10pm EST). And if that\u2019s not enough, a reminder that Football Weekly goes daily<\/a> \u2013 tune in throughout the tournament \u2013 and there\u2019s brilliant and comprehensive guides to all the players: click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cricket<\/p>\n 11am and 2.30pmCounty liveblog and India v Pakistan Women\u2019s T20 World Cup live<\/p>\n Our attention once more switches to cricket and day three of the latest County Championship games from 11am, with Tanya Aldred steering the blog. There\u2019s then a blockbuster Women\u2019s World T20 clash at 2.30pm with James Wallace\u2019s over-by-over coverage of India v Pakistan. India launched the Women\u2019s Premier League in 2023 along the lines of the men\u2019s IPL. That has encouraged fearless strokeplay by players such as Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh and Harmanpreet Kaur, who will captain India for the fifth time at her 10th T20 World Cup. The closest Kaur came to winning was in the 2020 final. Taha Hashim reports from Edgbaston.<\/p>\n India\u2019s captain Harmanpreet Kaur gets in a spot of practice during the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup Captains\u2019 Carnival at Waterloo Bridge. Photograph: Alex Davidson-ICC\/ICC\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Formula One<\/p>\n 2pmBarcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix live <\/p>\n It\u2019s lights out and away we go with Billy Munday\u2019s lap-by-lap report of the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. George Russell\u2019s championship campaign is in tatters after failing to score in the previous two rounds. The British driver\u2019s engine expired in Montreal when battling his Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli for the race lead before a botched five-second penalty that was caused by an official timing error resulted in a drive-through in Monaco that left him to finish outside the points. That put him a whopping 68 points adrift of Antonelli, with the teenager claiming five wins in a row to take a firm grip on the title race.<\/p>\n World Cup<\/p>\n 6pm (1pm ET)Germany v Cura\u00e7ao live<\/p>\n Only a convincing win will do against Cura\u00e7ao, with Germany eager to start the tournament strongly after shock first-round exits in 2018 and 2022. Cura\u00e7ao is a self-governing part of the Netherlands, with a population of just over 150,000 and a land area of 171 square miles (443 square km). All their players are Dutch nationals, as is their coach, Dick Advocaat, and they are the smallest nation to qualify for the World Cup. The four-times champions say they are not feeling any pressure but they must contend with performing in high temperatures in Houston. Daniel Harris hosts the live blog with Nick Ames reporting.<\/p>\n It\u2019s bad news for Dick Advocaat and his Cura\u00e7ao players as Walter, \u201cthe oracle orangutan\u201d, looks to plump for Germany when he is asked to predict the result of their World Cup group game. Though as Walter lives at Dortmund Zoo, one can\u2019t rule out home bias. Photograph: Leon Kuegeler\/Reuters<\/p>\n World Cup <\/p>\n 9pm (4pm ET)Netherlands v Japan live<\/p>\n Japan travel to their eighth successive finals on the back of several high-profile victories and with their coach, Hajime Moriyasu, understandably bullish about their chances of reaching the tournament\u2019s latter stages. The four-time Asian champions secured friendly wins over Brazil and England during the past eight months but in four appearances in the World Cup knockout rounds they have failed to register a single win, crashing out in the last 16 each time. The Dutch consider themselves World Cup contenders but head for the 2026 finals with a squad that contains few of the outstanding individual stars and little of the overall quality that has marked their previous appearances at the tournament. The Netherlands have been runners-up three times, most recently in 2010, and at the last finals in Qatar in 2022 were eliminated in the quarter-finals on penalties by the eventual winners, Argentina. This time they have set themselves the minimum goal of a semi-final place. Rob Smyth hosts the blog with Barney Ronay reporting from what is certain to be an entertaining clash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday Football 10am-6pm (BST)World Cup news liveblog Friday\u2019s action will be reviewed and Saturday\u2019s previewed in our daily…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-732427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}