{"id":773510,"date":"2026-07-02T04:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/773510\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T04:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:14:09","slug":"david-beats-goliath-the-biggest-upsets-of-the-world-cup-so-far-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/773510\/","title":{"rendered":"David beats Goliath: the biggest upsets of the World Cup so far | World Cup 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Ghana and Cape Verde were ranked 73rd and 67th in the world respectively heading into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/world-cup-football\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a>. However, defying the odds, both teams have managed to push through the group stage and into the last 32, winning and drawing against opponents with far higher Fifa rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">This chart shows the biggest upsets of the tournament so far, and the difference in ranking for every team. This only shows results with a rankings difference greater than 30, so some matches, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/14\/australia-socceroos-turkey-world-cup-2026-group-d-match-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia\u2019s win against Turkey<\/a>, don\u2019t make the cut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Cape Verde head coach, Bubista, said his team had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/27\/cape-verde-relishing-world-cup-date-with-argentina\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cshown that nothing is impossible\u201d<\/a> after his side secured a historic meeting with Argentina in the last 32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghana and Cape Verde were ranked 73rd and 67th in the world respectively heading into the World Cup.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-773510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773510","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=773510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}