{"id":78658,"date":"2026-06-25T05:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/fifa-world-cup-vinicius-jr-stops-fun-and-leaves-scotland-down-but-are-they-out\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:16:15","slug":"fifa-world-cup-vinicius-jr-stops-fun-and-leaves-scotland-down-but-are-they-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/fifa-world-cup-vinicius-jr-stops-fun-and-leaves-scotland-down-but-are-they-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa World Cup: Vinicius Jr stops fun and leaves Scotland down&#8230; but are they out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From early on, we were looking at the game, yes, but also working out the mad significance of it all. We turned elsewhere to see what all of this meant in the grand scheme of things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before the games began on Wednesday, Scotland were sitting relatively pretty as second of the best third-placed teams in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bosnia-Herzegovina&#8217;s win over Qatar dropped Scotland to third. Brazil&#8217;s dominance dropped them further. Down and down they went, their buffer all but removed, their obsession about results elsewhere in the coming days multiplying as they went.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Back to Charlotte, North Carolina they&#8217;ll go on Thursday; battered and dazed, uncertain of their future in this tournament, if they have one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As it stands, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/world-cup\/schedule#KnockoutStage\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">the predictor<\/a> has them playing Mexico on Tuesday &#8211; a shot at redemption or another trip to a torture chamber?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That might turn on its head, of course. Other teams in the coming days will have plenty to say about this yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland are sweating on a place in the last 32. That&#8217;s the no-man&#8217;s land they&#8217;re living in now, frantically looking at the respective fates of Senegal and Ecuador, Curacao and Cape Verde, Saudi Arabia and others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was a certain inevitably about it. Until Bolivia earlier this month, Scotland have never beaten South American opposition, never beaten Brazil in 10 attempts going back 50 years. They rallied and created moments but it was too little, too late.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce3e237r7g7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From early on, we were looking at the game, yes, but also working out the mad significance of it all. We turned elsewhere to see what all of this meant in the grand scheme of things. Before the games began on Wednesday, Scotland were sitting relatively pretty as second of the best third-placed teams in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[1800,21009,4645,3557,2801,688,5557,21008,510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78660,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78658\/revisions\/78660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}