Netherlands 🇳🇱 vs Japan 🇯🇵 — kicks off in 45 minutes.
At the last World Cup, Japan topped a group that included Spain and Germany.
Netherlands are without Xavi Simons tonight — their most creative player is out with an ACL injury.
Don't write Japan off Cuse they are Locked In! 🇯🇵⚽️
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Belgium🇧🇪15 shots, Egypt 🇪🇬14. Both 3 on target.
Ashour scored first. Lukaku came on, an own goal levelled it. Shobeir saved twice late to hold the draw.
1-1. Spain drew too. Group G: nobody has three points.
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Belgium🇧🇪 1-1 Egypt 🇪🇬
Emam Ashour put Egypt ahead on 20 minutes. Belgium equalized at 66 — Mohamed Hany own goal, moments after Lukaku came on.
Egypt keeper Mostafa Shobeir then made two big saves to hold the draw.
A fair point each.
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Spain vs Cape Verde: what actually happened.⚽️
Spain had 27 shots, 70% possession, and brought on Yamal, Olmo, and Nico Williams off the bench.
Torres hit the bar. Laporte headed straight at the keeper.
Cape Verde barely attacked. They didn't need to.
Vozinha — 40 years old, making his World Cup debut — made 7 saves and didn't flinch once. He's now the oldest goalkeeper to keep a World Cup clean sheet.
Spain's Group H is wide open.
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Spain 0-0 Cape Verde 🇪🇸
27 shots. Zero goals. Cape Verde's goalkeeper Vozinha, 40 years old, made 7 saves and kept a clean sheet against one of the tournament favourites.
The oldest goalkeeper to ever keep a World Cup clean sheet. On his nation's debut.
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Tonight: Spain kick off their World Cup 2026 campaign. 🇪🇸
They face Cape Verde — a nation of 525,000 people appearing at the World Cup for the very first time.
Spain are ranked #1 in the world.
Tune in now at 9:30 PM IST · Atlanta.
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xG (Expected Goals) measures the quality of a scoring chance, not just whether it went in.
Germany's xG against Curaçao yesterday was 3.91. They scored 7.
That gap shows two things: Germany were ruthless, and Curaçao were unlucky.
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Germany 239, Brazil 238. 🇩🇪
Germany's 7-1 win over Curaçao yesterday made them the all-time top scorers in World Cup history.
One more than Brazil's record. A landmark in 104 years of World Cup football.
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Sweden 5-1 Tunisia 🇸🇪
Gyökeres and Isak both scored in Monterrey to open Sweden's World Cup campaign. Yasin Ayari added two long-range strikes — the second in injury time.
Sweden lead Group F
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Japan 🇯🇵 2-2 Netherlands 🇳🇱
Trailing 2-1 with two minutes left, Daichi Kamada headed home in the 88th minute to earn the draw.
The Netherlands had 60% of the ball. Japan didn't care.
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Germany 7–1 Curaçao 🇩🇪
A ruthless World Cup opener in Houston. Kai Havertz scored twice, with Nmecha, Schlotterbeck, Musiala, Brown and Undav also on the board.
One bright spot for the debutants: Comenencia scored Curaçao's first-ever World Cup goal.
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