{"id":728374,"date":"2026-06-10T21:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/728374\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:56:19","slug":"world-cup-2026-any-early-shocks-chris-suttons-score-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/728374\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Any early shocks? Chris Sutton&#8217;s score predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Los Angeles \/ Tuesday, 16 June \/ 02:00<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I read an amazing stat about New Zealand, which is that they only have around 60 professional footballers across the world. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a nation, just by getting to this World Cup they are punching well above their weight, and it would be massive for them to get their first win in their third finals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have got some decent players, too, like &#8216;the Wood-chopper&#8217; Chris Wood up top and their playmaker, Sarpreet Singh, and I am also looking forward to seeing Motherwell midfielder Elijah Just, who is a good footballer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are up against an Iran team with a lot of off-field issues, and won&#8217;t even be based in the United States where they play their three group games, but in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A lot of their players play in the Persian Gulf League, which has been suspended since March, and they are an ageing squad anyway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, it won&#8217;t be easy for them and I am going to back &#8216;the Wood-chopper&#8217; to get the winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sutton&#8217;s prediction: 0-1<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">AI&#8217;s prediction: 1-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles \/ Tuesday, 16 June \/ 02:00 I read an amazing stat about New Zealand, which is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-728374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}