{"id":5451,"date":"2026-06-25T09:50:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5451"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:50:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:50:55","slug":"world-cup-2026-belgium-going-out-chris-suttons-score-predictions-for-second-round-of-group-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=5451","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Belgium going out? Chris Sutton&#8217;s score predictions for second round of group games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">After following up their draw with Spain by holding Uruguay, Cape Verde keep on surprising people at this World Cup. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But some of you were not caught out this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While 99.65% of the users playing the BBC&#8217;s new predictor game backed them to lose against Spain, &#8216;only&#8217; 83% thought they would be beaten by Uruguay too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The users have got some predictions right, however, and overall they are doing better than BBC Sport predictions expert Chris Sutton and AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris got 14 results correct in the second round of 24 group games, compared to 12 from the first set of fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">AI also did better this time, up from 13 to 15\/24, but the users made an even bigger improvement, with a score of 18\/24 compared to 13 last time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">How will everyone fare in the final set of matches, including Scotland versus Brazil and England against Panama?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris is predicting the outcome of all 104 games at the World Cup, and he has also picked the order he thinks each of the 12 groups will finish in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">AI&#8217;s predictions have been generated using Microsoft Copilot Chat. We simply asked the tool to &#8216;predict the results of the second round of World Cup group games&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cn0plqlkl51o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">BBC predictor game<\/a> allows readers to pick a winner from every match, or go for a draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/predictor\/mwc2026\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">PLAY WORLD CUP PREDICTOR HERE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After following up their draw with Spain by holding Uruguay, Cape Verde keep on surprising people at this World Cup.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}