🇵🇾 Paraguay

Paraguay are a famously stubborn, defensively resolute South American outfit. A CONMEBOL side, they enter the 2026 World Cup rated 1720 — 35th of the 48 teams — in Group D.

Their high point was the 2010 World Cup quarter-final, and they are traditionally hard to beat. Compact, combative and organised, thriving on set pieces and counterattacks.

Drawn alongside United States, Türkiye and Australia, their toughest group test on paper is the meeting with United States. Our model projects them to finish 4th in the group and to fall short of the knockout rounds.