Fixtures · Round 8

Fixture guide: clean sheets and blowouts for Round 8

Spain rate highest for a clean sheet at 36% vs Argentina.

eBy the evmax model · 19 July 2026

Spain carry the best clean-sheet odds this round at 36% vs Argentina, conceding just 1.01 expected goals. Argentina are next at 27% vs Spain.

Spain36.40Argentina26.90England26.30France25.70
Top 10 by CS %. Green = top pick · red = under 10% owned. Full list in the table below.

The data

#PlayerCS %xGAxGFBest DEFBest GK
1Spain vs Argentina36%1.011.32Aymeric Laporte (3.3)Unai Simon (3.9)
2Argentina vs Spain27%1.321.01Lisandro Martinez (2.2)Emiliano Martinez (3.4)
3England vs France26%1.351.36Ezri Konsa (2.6)Jordan Pickford (3.3)
4France vs England26%1.361.35Dayot Upamecano (2.7)Mike Maignan (3.3)

Bottom line

Back Spain for a clean sheet (36% vs Argentina), target attackers in the blowouts, and fade forwards in the low-goal fixtures.

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How we get these numbers. Market odds (de-vigged) → Dixon-Coles scorelines → 50k Monte-Carlo simulations, scored on the official FIFA World Cup Fantasy points table. Every figure here is machine-readable at /api/round/8/fixtures.json.