World Cup 2026 awards: the Guardian team give their final tournament verdicts

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Paraguay 1-1 Germany. There were plenty more games with more goals but none could match the drama of the penalty shootout in this last-32 tie.

Germany aren’t supposed to lose in them https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/30/germany-paraguay-world-cup-2026-last-32-match-report">but they did this time in spectacular fashion. Ed Aarons