Picture : Antonio Nusa became the youngest (21 years and 2 months old) goal-scorer in Norway’s World Cup history.
World Cup 2026 Statistics – Day 20 (June 30) – Round of 32
Ivory Coast vs Norway 1-2
*Norway have qualified for the World Cup Round of 16 for the first time since 1998.
This is their first-ever World Cup knockout stage victory.
*Antonio Nusa is the second player in Norway’s history to score in a World Cup knockout match, following Arne Brustad against Italy in the 1938 Round of 16.
*Nusa became the youngest (21 years and 2 months old) goal-scorer in Norway’s World Cup history.
*Norway is the team that took the longest to score again in a knockout-stage match in the history of the World Cup: 88 years (Brustad 1938 to Nusa 2026).
The next are:
United States – 68 years (Donelli 1934 to Donovan 2002)
Switzerland – 68 years (Hügi 1954 to Akanji 2022)
Romania – 56 years (Dobay 1938 to Dumitrescu 1994)
Spain – 52 years (Regueiro 1934 to Butragueño 1986)
Belgium – 48 years (Isemborghs 1938 to Ceulemans 1986)
*Nicolas Pépé has been involved in Ivory Coast’s last three World Cup goals (2 goals, and now 1 assist).
*Ivory Coast became the eighth African nation to score in the knockout stage of the World Cup, following Egypt, Morocco, Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, and Algeria.
*Erling Haaland has scored in his last 13 competitive matches for Norway: an incredible streak, unprecedented in football history!
*Haaland became the fastest player to reach 60 senior international goals (in 53 caps) since Gerd Müller for Germany in 1973 (taking 48 caps).
*Haaland is the third player in XXI century to score 5 goals in his first 3 World Cup matches, after:
Miroslav Klose (Germany) in 2002
Harry Kane (England) in 2018
*Norway’s Martin Ødegaard is only the third player on record (from 1966) to assist a goal in each of his first three World Cup appearances, after:
Igor Belanov for USSR in 1986,
Michael Ballack for Germany in 2002.
*Yan Diomande (Ivory Coast) is only the second African player in history to play as many as four World Cup matches while still a teenager, after Nigeria’s Sunday Oliseh in 1994.