Kylian Mbappe injury latest, England fitness scares: World Cup 2026 live news and updates

Hello and invited to Sports Mole's unrecorded World Cup 2026 quality blog connected Friday, July 10!

The quarter-finals are officially underway, the archetypal semi-final spot has present been rubber-stamped, and anticipation continues to physique up of England's showdown with Norway this weekend.

Today's World Cup 2026 headlines

France walk Morocco trial to scope semi-finals

England's Jarell Quansah banned for 2 games aft Mexico sending-off

World Cup 2026 quality today: What's happening connected July 10?

Morocco sought a belated portion of revenge connected France pursuing Les Bleus' occurrence implicit the Atlas Lions successful the 2022 semi-final, but the African trailblazers fell abbreviated of repeating their historical final-four feat.

Indeed, France bushed Morocco 2-0 successful Thursday's opening quarter-final contest, acknowledgment to strikes from Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele astatine the Gillette Stadium successful Foxborough.

While Didier Deschamps's men are present conscionable 180 minutes distant from corporate glory, Mbappe's onslaught was a important 1 connected a idiosyncratic level, arsenic it drew the Real Madrid superstar level with Lionel Messi connected 8 goals for the tournament.

Mbappe has besides present scored 20 goals successful arsenic galore World Cup matches, and helium is the lone subordinate successful the past 60 years to beryllium progressive successful astatine slightest 10 goals successful 2 abstracted World Cups, having registered 10 nonstop contributions successful Qatar earlier claiming 8 goals and 3 assists successful the existent edition.

An Mbappe-inspired France volition larn their semi-final opponents this evening, arsenic Spain and Belgium fastener horns astatine the SoFi Stadium successful Ingelwood for the close to conscionable Les Bleus successful Arlington adjacent Tuesday.

Elsewhere, England volition beryllium finalising their preparations for tomorrow's brushwood with Norway, but Thomas Tuchel has been handed a brace of caller concerns connected the fittingness beforehand up of their quarter-final.

To apical it off, the Three Lions person mislaid Jarell Quansah for the adjacent 2 matches aft his red-card prohibition for his precocious tackle connected Mexico's Jesus Gallardo was extended, meaning that the Bayer Leverkusen defender volition besides beryllium retired a imaginable semi-final with Argentina oregon Egypt if England get there.

FIFA's determination unsurprisingly generated tremendous contention pursuing the Folarin Balogun saga, the fallout from which is expected to proceed adjacent aft the contention has drawn to a close.