Group D
Paraguay
- Manager
- Gustavo Alfaro
- Squad
- 26 players
- Announced
- June 1
Tournament projection
- Advance
- 72.4%
- Round of 16
- 39.9%
- Quarter-final
- 16.2%
- Semi-final
- 7.1%
- Final
- 2.6%
- Champion
- 0.9%
Market champion price 0.3% · model edge +0.6%.
Scouting report
updated 2026-06-04A 4-4-2 / 4-2-3-1 built on Julio Enciso's creativity and overlapping fullbacks, but with a naive, open rest-defence in a brutal group.
Style · 4-4-2 / 4-2-3-1 — wingers' 1v1 creativity (Enciso), fullbacks overlapping in transition, crosses into the box (2nd most in CONMEBOL).
Counter-reliance ·mediumOverlapping fullbacks in transition, heavy crossing
Strengths
- +2nd most crosses into the box in CONMEBOL
- +Set-play threat (4 goals in qualifying) with big CBs key to the attack
- +Julio Enciso's tight-space creativity
Weaknesses
- −Rest-defence naive/open
Key players
- Julio Enciso · AttackerGoals & assists, technical & creative, a dribbler and tight-space player
- Tactics
- Overlap the fullbacks, cross to the big centre-backs and lean on Enciso for the special moments. In such a hard group everyone will need their best players to produce.
Sources: John Walker (@johnwalker_1986) — pre-tournament tactical scouting, May–Jun 2026
Group fixtures
Squad
Goalkeepers
- Roberto FernándezCerro Porteño
- Orlando GillSan Lorenzo
- Gastón OlveiraOlimpia
Defenders
- Gustavo GómezPalmeiras
- Júnior AlonsoAtletico Mineiro
- Fabián BalbuenaGremio
- Omar AldereteSunderland
- Juan CaceresDynamo Moscow
- Jose CanaleLanus
- Alexandro MaidanaTalleres
- Gustavo VelázquezCerro Porteño
Midfielders
- Miguel AlmirónAtlanta United
- KakuAl Ain
- Andrés CubasVancouver Whitecaps
- Ramón SosaPalmeiras
- Diego GómezBrighton & Hove Albion
- Damián BobadillaSão Paulo
- Braian OjedaOrlando City
- Matías GalarzaAtlanta United
- MaurícioPalmeiras
Forwards
- Antonio SanabriaCremonese
- Julio EncisoStrasbourg
- Gabriel ÁvalosIndependiente
- Alex ArceIndependiente Rivadavia
- Isidro PittaRed Bull Bragantino
- Gustavo CaballeroPortsmouth