Chris Sutton says Morocco will definitely beat Canada in England vs Brazil coverage that has shifted into the 2026 World Cup last 16. With 16 teams left and the knockout line now set, Sport has moved from earlier prediction rounds to the next set of ties.
Sutton framed his call bluntly: "I actually think Morocco can win this World Cup but, first things first, they will definitely win this game." That puts Morocco in the bracket as a live pick, not just a survivor, and it leaves Canada trying to extend a run that included its first World Cup point and then its first World Cup win along the way.
Chris Sutton and Morocco v Canada
Morocco v Canada sits inside a wider prediction game that has been running through the tournament. asked Microsoft Copilot Chat to predict the results of the World Cup last-16 ties, and the predictor game also lets readers choose a winner from each knockout tie.
Sutton has been strong through the earlier rounds. He got 13 of 16 predictions right for the last 32, while AI got 12 of 16. After 88 of the World Cup's 104 matches, Sutton had 54 correct predictions, AI had 55, and users had 62. Those figures show that the gap in the game has been tight enough to keep every knockout pick under scrutiny.
Jesse Marsch and Canada
Jesse Marsch's side reached this stage by collecting its first World Cup point and then its first World Cup win along the way. That makes Sutton's certainty on Morocco more than a routine bracket call: Canada has already pushed into territory it had not reached earlier in the tournament, and the prediction now asks whether that climb can continue in one match.
The user base has already shown how sharp the competition can be. More than 60,000 user predictions were submitted for Paraguay's win over Germany, only 2% of those went for a Paraguay win over Germany, and Morocco's win over the Netherlands was the only other result users got wrong in the last 32.
Eilidh Barbour on Morocco
Despite Chris Sutton saying Morocco will definitely win, Eilidh Barbour thought France will be too strong for Morocco in the quarter-finals. Sutton answered that by saying, "she's not going to win any bravery awards for saying that, is she?"
That split keeps Morocco at the centre of the next round of predictions. England v Mexico and Paraguay against France are also part of the last 16, but Sutton's Morocco call is the one that most clearly sets up the next test: whether readers back the favourite in the game, or whether they side with the more cautious view that comes one round later.
