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World Cup 2026: Brazil going out? Chris Sutton’s score predictions for last-16 ties


Only 16 teams are left in the 2026 World Cup, but who will make it to the final at MetLife Stadium near New York City on 19 July?

BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton did pretty well with his predictions for the last 32, but Paraguay’s win over Germany caught him out, as well as most of you.

From more than 60,000 user predictions for that game, only 2% of you went for a Paraguay win.

You did pretty well otherwise, however – Morocco’s win over the Netherlands was the only other result you got wrong.

Chris was right with 13/16 predictions while AI got 12/16.

With 88 of this World Cup’s 104 matches now completed, the users still lead the way.

Chris has been right 54 times (61%), AI has a score of 55 (63%), but you lot are on top with 62 (70%).

Will there be any more surprises in the last 16, which includes Mexico against England and Paraguay against France?

AI’s predictions have been generated using Microsoft Copilot Chat. We simply asked the tool to ‘predict the results of the World Cup last-16 ties’.

The new BBC predictor game allows readers to pick a winner from each knockout tie.

PLAY WORLD CUP PREDICTOR HERE


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