{"id":766491,"date":"2026-06-28T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766491\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T09:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:40:10","slug":"switzerland-algeria-meet-thursday-in-world-cups-round-of-32-in-vancouver-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766491\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland, Algeria meet Thursday in World Cup&#8217;s round of 32 in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">VANCOUVER \u2014 Switzerland had to wait until late Saturday night to learn who they\u2019ll be playing in their first World Cup knockout match on Thursday at BC Place Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Algeria, which earned a dramatic 3-3 draw with Austria on Saturday in Kansas City, finished third in Group J with a win, loss and draw in its group and will play in Vancouver against Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Defending champion Argentina (3-0-0) and Austria (1-1-1) also advanced from Group J.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Switzerland topped Group B with two wins and a draw, finishing ahead of Canada (1-1-1), Bosnia-Herzegovina (1-1-1) and Qatar (0-1-2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Switzerland defeated Canada 2-1 on Wednesday at BC Place, earning the right to stay in Vancouver. Canada opens the round-of-32 knockout stage playing South Africa on Sunday in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Switzerland finished group-stage play with seven goals for and three against, while Algeria scored five times and allowed seven goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 27, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 Switzerland had to wait until late Saturday night to learn who they\u2019ll be playing in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,82,55],"class_list":["post-766491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766491","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=766491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}