Statistics Russia 2018
60 years have passed since Pele became the fourth teenager to score multiple goals in a World Cup game. The fifth player now is Kylian Mbappe.
48 years have passed since one team had overturned a two-goal deficit and winning a knockout-phase match at the World Cup until Belgium rallied to stun Japan with a result of 3-2. West Germany has been the last one who came from two goals down to edge England 3-2 at Mexico in 1970.
40 million – thanks to the Sweden- Switzerland game that is the cumulative attendance the World Cup reached. The tournament with the attendance the set a record was USA 1994 (3.59 million), Brazil 2014 (3.43 million) and Germany 2006 (3.36 million), while 2.58 million spectators counting has attended the matches in Russia 2018.
Out of the 146 goals at Russia 2018 only 31 have been scored after the 80th minute and that’s 21% in stats.
Out of 56 matches played 22 have been goalless at half-time. However, only one of those matches has finished 0-0. A World Cup record is that it took 37 matches for the first goalless draw at the tournament.
28 penalties have been awarded at Russia 2018 which is a record for a World Cup. Successfully converted have been only 21.
17 matches as Captain Rafa Marquez in the World Cup made it break Diego Maradona’s record. Also, the Mexican player became the only player to wear the armband at five World Cups and the third player to appear in five editions after Lothar Matthaus and Antonio Carbajal.
7 consecutive World Cups in Round of 16 elimination have ended for Mexico. Mexico has failed to score and concede 13 times in seven-and-a-half hours of action against Brazil in the competition.
6 goals as Captain Harry Kane has scored and equaled Maradona’s World Cup record. He tied the England record for goals at an edition of the tournament set by Gary Lineker at Mexico in 1986.
3 consecutive World Cups at the group stage has seen the defending champions fall after Germany emulated Italy in 2010 and Spain in 2014.
3 successive appearances at Yerry Mina and he became the first defender in World Cup history to score in.
2 goalkeepers have saved three penalties in a World Cup shootout. Croatia’s Danijel Subasic did it 12 years to the day coincidentally after Portugal’s Ricardo became the first.