South Korea Eliminated from the 2026 World Cup After Completion of Group Stage Play
South Korea has to consider this World Cup a total failure. If their goalie could have not dropped a ball that led to the Mexico winning goal in their second game, they probably would have moved on out of the group stage of the World Cup. Now they will be returning to Korea with a lot of questions about what went wrong at this World Cup:
Korea have been eliminated from the 2026 FIFA World Cup, unable to sneak into the knockout stage on the heels of group stage woes.
With the tournament having expanded from 32 to 48 nations, the eight best third-place teams get to play in the knockout stage, along with the top two countries from each of 12 groups.
After finishing third in Group A with three points on a win and two losses, Korea failed to crack the top eight among the dozen third-place teams Saturday.
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