{"id":7786,"date":"2026-06-09T08:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=7786"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:10:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:10:29","slug":"world-cup-2026-preview-eight-liverpool-players-about-to-embark-on-group-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=7786","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 preview: Eight Liverpool players about to embark on group stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mac Allister and his compatriots are seeking to ensure Argentina become the third country to win back-to-back men&#8217;s World Cups.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil, in 1958 and 1962, were the last to do so, after Italy had first achieved the feat in 1934 and 1938. <\/p>\n<p>Argentina will once again be captained by Lionel Messi, who will take part in his sixth World Cup at the age of 38.<\/p>\n<p>Mac Allister, then of Brighton &#038; Hove Albion, was on the bench for their 2022 opener \u2013 a 2-1 defeat by Saudi Arabia \u2013 but then started the following six games on the way to glory.<\/p>\n<p>In 2026, Lionel Scaloni&#8217;s men open Group J against Algeria, and then meet Austria and Jordan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Argentina&#8217;s fixtures&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>v Algeria \u2013 June 17, 2am<\/li>\n<li>in Austria \u2013 June 22, 6pm<\/li>\n<li>v Jordan \u2013 June 28, 3am<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Florian Wirtz (Germany)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac Allister and his compatriots are seeking to ensure Argentina become the third country to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}