2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a> as the third and final group-stage matchday gets underway on Wednesday. One of the tournament’s co-hosts, Mexico, will be back in action as El Tri take on Czechia in their final Group A fixture. Mexico have already secured their place in the knockout stage after victories over South Africa and South Korea as group winners but will be aiming to maintain their perfect record. The side coached by Javier Aguirre will meet the third-place team (from either Group C, E, F, H, or I) in the round of 32 in Mexico City on June 30. On the other hand, everything is still yet to be decided for the other three teams involved in the group.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe first two teams qualify for the next round alongside the eight-highest third placed of the 12 groups. Let’s take a look at the current situation of the standings entering the last matchday:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Group A standings\u00a0PosTeamGPWDLGFGAGDPTS1Mexico220030+362Korea Republic210122033Czechia201123-114South Africa201113-21Schedule and scores\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thursday, June 11
Mexico 2, South Africa 0
South Korea 2, Czechia 1<\/p>\n
Thursday, June 18
Czechia 1, South Africa 1
Mexico 1, South Korea 0<\/p>\n
Wednesday, June 24
Czechia vs. Mexico, 9 p.m. ET
South Africa vs. South Korea, 9 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
World Cup group standings tiebreakersMost points obtained in group matches played between the tied teamsSuperior goal difference in the group matches played between the tied teamsMost goals scored in the group matches played between the tied teamsSuperior goal difference in all group matchesMost goals scored in all group matchesBest team conduct score in all group matches (taking into account yellow cards and red cards)FIFA World RankingMexico scenariosMexico have already won the group.\u00a0They will meet the third-placed team (from either Group C, E, F, H, or I) in the round of 32.\u00a0Korea Republic scenariosKorea Republic earn\u00a0second place: Win or draw against South Africa.\u00a0Korea Republic earn\u00a0third place: Defeated by South Africa and Czechia don’t win against Mexico.\u00a0Czechia scenarios\u00a0Czechia earn\u00a0second place:\u00a0Win vs. Mexico, Korea Republic lose and they maintain tiebreaker vs. South Africa.\u00a0Czechia earn\u00a0third place:\u00a0Win vs. Mexico, Korea Republic lose and if South Africa makes up the goal difference tiebreaker.\u00a0Czechia earn\u00a0third place: Win vs. Mexico, Korea Republic win or draw.\u00a0Czechia earn\u00a0third place:\u00a0Draw vs. Mexico, Korea Republic draw or lose.\u00a0Czechia earn\u00a0third place:\u00a0Lose vs. Mexico, Korea Republic win and they maintain tiebreaker vs. South Africa.\u00a0South Africa scenarios\u00a0South Africa earn\u00a0second place:\u00a0Win vs. Korea Republic, Czechia lose or draw.\u00a0South Africa earn\u00a0second place:\u00a0Win vs. Korea Republic, Czechia win but they win the tiebreaker.\u00a0South Africa earn\u00a0third place:\u00a0Win vs. Korea Republic, Czechia win but they don’t win the tiebreaker.\u00a0South Africa ean\u00a0third place:\u00a0Draw vs. Korea Republic, Czechia lose.\u00a0South Africa earn\u00a0third place:\u00a0Lose vs. Korea Republic, Czechia lose but they win the tiebreaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexico have already clinched a spot for the Round of 32 after two wins in two games Jun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9818,233472,233470,233465,233468,19712,8316,4118,85,46,233469,232328,233466,19711,233467,105,9028,411,233471,6866],"class_list":["post-508218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-argentina-argentina","tag-brazil-brazil","tag-copa-mundial","tag-czechia-czechia","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-football","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-korea-republic-korea-republic","tag-live-streaming","tag-mexico-mexico","tag-soccer","tag-south-africa-south-africa","tag-sports","tag-streaming","tag-tv","tag-united-states-united-states","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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