{"id":703425,"date":"2026-06-14T11:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/703425\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:14:12","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2026-can-germany-netherlands-join-scotland-as-european-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/703425\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa World Cup 2026: Can Germany &#038; Netherlands join Scotland as European winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany 3-0 Curacaopublished at 11:57 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:57 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Chris Sutton&#8217;s World Cup predictions<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c98e27c3-0e59-45b1-9944-beb7feb472bc.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Chris Sutton<br \/>Former England forward<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Curacao fans\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f9f9a665-87c3-4259-b054-cfea10eed9d7.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Curacao are the smallest nation ever to make it to a World Cup, in terms of geographical size and population &#8211; 158,000, which is only slightly bigger than my home city of Norwich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sadly, Norwich never made it to a World Cup, but for Curacao to qualify is a great story &#8211; and so is the return of Dick Advocaat as their head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 78, he is set to be the oldest coach in World Cup history when he takes charge of this game. I remember facing his Rangers side when I was at Celtic and he is such a smart guy and a really wily manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I am covering this game for 5 Live too and it is strange there is so little expectation around Germany at this tournament &#8211; they are usually among the favourites but did not get out of their group in 2018 or 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They should make it to the knockout stages this time, however, and I think they will begin with a win. Curacao will sit deep and defend in numbers, but Germany will find a way through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany 3-0 Curacaopublished at 11:57 BST 11:57 BST Chris Sutton&#8217;s World Cup predictions Chris SuttonFormer England forward Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-703425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}