Picture : Yassine Bounou became the most-capped African goalkeeper in World Cup history (10 appearances), surpassing Ghana’s Richard Kingston (9). He stopped the most important penalty shoot !
World Cup 2026 Statistics – Day 19 (June 29) – Round of 32
Netherlands vs Morocco 1-1 (pen. 2-3)
*The Netherlands has been eliminated on penalties in their 3 consecutive World Cup campaigns (also 2014 and 2022; they did not participate in 2018).
*Netherlands became the team eliminated from the most World Cup editions (3) without losing a single match (in regular time or extra time).
Brazil, England, Italy and Spain have 2 such campaigns each.
*Netherlands have gone 16 World Cup matches without losing in regulation time (the competition’s record that can be extended in the next edition).
The last time they lost was in the 2010 World Cup final against Spain (in extra time).
*Netherlands tied Spain for the most penalty shootout losses in World Cup history (4 each).
*Netherlands had won their previous five World Cup matches against African nations; that streak has now ended.
*Morocco are the third African nation to reach the World Cup Round of 16 in two consecutive tournaments (2022 and 2026), following Nigeria (1994 and 1998) and Ghana (2006 and 2010).
*Morocco became the first African nation to win at least one knockout-stage match in two different World Cup tournaments (2022 and 2026).
Three of the six knockout-stage matches won by African nations in the competition have been won by Morocco (with one each for Ghana, Senegal, and Cameroon).
*Morocco have scored 7 goals at the 2026 World Cup: a record for the team in a single edition.
*Morocco became the most-capped African nation in World Cup history (27 matches), surpassing Cameroon (26).
*Ronald Koeman is the 2nd person who played for and coached the Netherlands in a knockout stage match throughout World Cup history (played in 1990 and 1994; coached in 2026)
The first was Marco van Basten (played in 1990; coached in 2006).
*Cody Gakpo has now scored as many World Cup goals (6) for the Netherlands as Dennis Bergkamp, Wesley Sneijder, Rob Rensenbrink, Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie (6).
Johnny Rep (7) is the only Dutch player with more.
*Gakpo is one of only 3 players to score 3+ goals at the both 2022 and 2026 World Cups, along with Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi.
*Only Dennis Bergkamp scored more goals (10) for “Oranje” at the major tournaments (Euro, World Cup) than Gakpo (9, along with Robin van Persie).
*Morocco’s Issa Diop is the 5th player who has scored in second-half stoppage time (at 90 minutes 7 seconds) to force extra time in a knockout match throughout World Cup history, after:
Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (Germany, 1970, vs Italy, 91:48)
Sokratis Papastathopoulos (Greece, 2014, vs Costa Rica, 90:11)
Yerry Mina (Colombia, 2018 vs England, 92:32)
Wout Weghorst (Netherlands, 2022, vs Argentina, 100:31)
In all 4 previous cases those who forced extra time were eliminated (either during extra time itself or via penalties), and now Morocco broke this tradition.
*The Netherlands have played 8 extra-times in World Cups and have never managed to win during those additional 30 minutes, recording 3 losses and 5 draws that subsequently went to penalties.
*For the first time in the history of the World Cup, a penalty shootout has seen as many as three shots hit the woodwork.
*Patrick Kluivert and Justin Kluivert became the 2nd father & son duos eliminated on penalties in the history of the World Cup (Patrick was eliminated in 1998 from Brazil in semi-final).
The first such pair was Lilian Thuram (France, 2006 vs Italy, final) and Marcus Thuram (France, 2022 vs Argentina, final).
*Yassine Bounou became the most-capped African goalkeeper in World Cup history (10 appearances), surpassing Ghana’s Richard Kingston (9).
*Achraf Hakimi earned his 100th cap for Morocco, becoming the second player in the history of the Atlas Lions to reach this milestone, after Noureddine Naybet (115).
*Weghorst is the longest surname out of all 1248 World Cup players that doesn’t intersect itself on an alphabet circle (that is, the letters in the surname follow a strictly clockwise order in this circle).