Who Will Win the 2018 World Cup? SI's Expert Predictions and Knockout Brackets / The World Cup kicks off June 14 in Moscow with a meeting between the two lowest-ranked teams in the field ...

World Cup's Knockout Bracket Sets Up One-Sided Gauntlet for Many Favorites / MOSCOW — There were 900 qualifiers played over the course of two and a half years. All 211 eligible nations entered.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Roger Bennet, who is host of the podcast and TV show Men In Blazers, about the latest from the World Cup. And we're going to get you all caught up now on the ...

The 2018 World Cup has been a tough one for African nations as not a single team from the continent made the knockout stages (though Senegal and Nigeria came close). Twenty years, things were not ...

The 2018 FIFA World Cup group stage is finally behind us, which means only 16 nations in the world of soccer remain in Russia with one common goal: Hoisting that beautiful golden trophy depicting ...

Unfortunately, the World Cup 2018 can’t last forever – and the 32 starting countries must be cut in half before the knockout rounds. Only the winner and runner-up from each group will progress ...

In the 2018 World Cup, we’re applying a home-field advantage ... should we see any in the knockout phase of this World Cup. Our live shootout forecasts follow the same methodology described ...

The 2018 FIFA World Cup kicks off in Russia on June 14 ... with three games played first in the group stage. The knockout stage pits winners of the groups against second-placed teams.

Brazil’s path to World Cup glory appears to be getting clearer ... Spain, Argentina, and Portugal joined them after the first knockout round. Belgium, Brazil’s next opponent in a Friday ...

MOSCOW — The group stage of a World Cup always challenges so much about ... We will do the same during the knockout phase, as the chase for the trophy heats up.