Bosnia and Herzegovina v Qatar: World Cup 2026 – live | World Cup 2026
Key occasions
Peter Oh emails: “It’s too bad that Qatar’s Ro Ro doesn’t play for the boat-powered Norway team!”
This is Edin Dzeko’s one hundred and fiftieth look for his nation, a powerful 35 greater than Miralem Pjanic in second.
Julian Borger
Before every recreation in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s World Cup journey, Sarajevo has blossomed with major colours – and two distinct flags.
One is the nationwide flag relationship to 1998: blue and yellow diagonal halves emblazoned with a slanting line of white stars. The different has golden lilies on a blue defend set in opposition to a white background, and has a far deeper historical past, steeped in centuries of complexity. Its placing resurgence as a nationwide image, showcased throughout Bosnia’s
Qatar midfielder Assim Madibo has been given a five-match ban after receiving a purple card for a deal with which severely injured Canada midfielder Ismael Kone, Fifa mentioned on Wednesday.
Qatar suffered a heavy 6-0 defeat by Canada in their second Group B recreation, throughout which Kone sustained a damaged leg following a slipshod second-half deal with from Madibo.
The Fifa Disciplinary Committee imposed a five-match suspension for critical foul play, a call which is topic to enchantment to the FIFA Appeal Committee. Kone has undergone surgical procedure and Madibo and Qatar’s sports activities minister visited him in hospital to verify on his well being, the Qatar Football Association mentioned.
Starting lineups
Bosnia and Herzegovina (4-2-4): Vasilj; Malic, Radeljic, Katic, Kolasinac; Basic, Sunkic; Demirovic, Dzeko, Alajbegovic, Bajraktarevic
Subs: Jurkas, Zlomislic, Mujakic, Hadzinkadunic, Dedic, Tahirovic, Gigovic, Memic, Hadziahmetovic, Burnic, Mahmic, Bazdar Tabakovic, Lukic
Qatar (5-2-3): Abunadal; Miguel, Laye, Gaber, Khouki, Albrake; Boudiaf, Fathy; Junior, Alhaydos, Afif
Subs: Zakaria, Barsham, Mendes, Aloui, Alhussein, Hatem, Alganehi, Alaaeldin, Muntari, Abdurisag, Ali, Mohammed, Manai
If you do not need to observe this extra attention-grabbing recreation, then you might at all times be part of Rob Smyth for Switzerland v Canada.
An enormous evening for flags.
Bosnia and Herzegovina plan to play a extra offensive recreation after they face Qatar in a must-win recreation to maintain their World Cup hopes alive, coach Sergej Barbarez mentioned.
A draw would put Bosnia and Qatar on two factors, absolutely not sufficient to qualify in third place, and Barbarez predicted the excessive stakes would make for an entertaining contest.
“For us, it’s never our goal to defend for 90 minutes,” Barbarez instructed a bunch of largely Bosnian reporters. “There are always phases of the game when… you let the opponent play.”
“It’s not going to be a match of long balls and defending,” he added. “It will be two teams that will have to fight to win.”
Bosnia anticipate to be properly supported by their followers, who’ve been seen in giant numbers in Seattle this week. Qatar, although, are additionally set to have a big contingent within the stadium, with sections of Seattle Stadium already marked with Qatari flags on Tuesday night.
The European facet go into the sport as favorites and victory would most certainly arrange a last-32 conflict in opposition to co-hosts the United States. But Barbarez mentioned Bosnia, enjoying of their second World Cup Having been eradicated within the group stage in 2014, they needed to be cautious of their opponents.
“Us being or not being favorites to win the match will not change our approach,” he mentioned. “Looking at Fifa’s ranking, Qatar should be the favorite. They are better ranked than us, so we need to pay attention.”
“Form can beat quality sometimes,” Barbarez concluded. Reuters.
David Pleat has been writing for us. I’m wondering if he has time to do a few live blogs later within the event.
Will any of those get a summer time transfer?
If Bosnia and Herzegovina are to get by, then this man can be key. Even at 40, Edin Dzeko is aware of his technique to objective.
If you’re a fan of permutations, then that is for you.
Preamble
Welcome to what feels just like the battle for third place in Group B. If this elongated and bloated event is nice for something, it’s permitting mediocre sides to struggle it out for an opportunity to be knocked out within the spherical of 32. Bosnia and Herzegovina have one of the best probability, beginning the day with a degree picked up in opposition to Canada, who then went on to boast their objective distinction by pummeling Qatar into submission. With a objective distinction of -3 they should win right here and, ideally, by fairly a couple of objectives to get them into one of the best (eight) of the remaining.
Qatar must win and by roughly double figures. With a objective distinction of -6 they’re at an enormous benefit. A draw is not any good to both facet, as that will nearly definitely spell the tip of their summer time trip.
It ought to make for an enchanting and attacking recreation, which is one thing we must always all be glad about.
Here’s a cracker.
