{"id":374429,"date":"2026-06-25T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374429\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T13:50:12","slug":"australia-vs-paraguay-in-world-cup-group-match-in-santa-clara-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374429\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs. Paraguay in World Cup group match in Santa Clara \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bay Area will host its second to last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/worldcup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">World Cup<\/a> match Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Australia and Paraguay will kick off their Group D match from San Francisco Bay Area Stadium in Santa Clara at 7 p.m. The two other teams in Group D \u2013 the United States and T\u00fcrkiye \u2013 will play simultaneously in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. (6 points) already won the group and will play its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/world-cup\/round-of-32-usa-match-santa-clara\/4102713\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Round of 32 knockout match in Santa Clara<\/a> on July 1 \u2013 the final World Cup contest at San Francisco Bay Area Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Australia and Paraguay will battle for second place in the group. Both teams sit on three points entering Thursday&#8217;s match, but Australia holds a two-goal edge in goal differential.<\/p>\n<p>The team that finishes third in the group won&#8217;t necessarily be eliminated from the tournament. That&#8217;s because eight of the 12 third-place finishers advance to the Round of 32.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00fcrkiye (0 points) has been mathematically eliminated from advancing to the knockout rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bay Area will host its second to last World Cup match Thursday evening. Australia and Paraguay will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[15392,88,90,89,197,5393],"class_list":["post-374429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}