Picture : Manuel Neuer has played his 21st game at a World Cup and is now the goalkeeper with the most World Cup games, in the HISTORY, overtaking France’s Hugo Lloris (20). Sepp Maier (Germany) and Claudio Taffarel (Brazil) are next with 18 games.
World Cup 2026 Statistics – Day 10 (June 20)
Netherlands vs Sweden 5-1 (Group F)
*The Netherlands have not lost any of their last 14 World Cup matches (9 wins, 5 draws), the longest unbeaten run for a nation in the tournament’s history, ahead of Brazil between 1958 and 1966 (13).
The Netherlands’ last defeat was in the 2010 final vs Spain (0-1). Then, they were eliminated by Argentina on penalties in 2014 and 2022.
*Netherlands also broke a World Cup records for most consecutive group stage games without defeat (18).
Their last defeat in a group match was 0-1 vs Belgium in 1994.
The previous longest such run in the competition was Brazil’s 17 games between 2002 and 2022.
*The Netherlands score five goals in a World Cup game for the fourth time in their history, after:
5-1 vs Austria in 1978
5-0 vs South Korea in 1998
5-1 vs Spain in 2014
*Sweden conceded 5+ goals in a World Cup match for the 4th time in their history, after:
1-5 vs Hungary in 1938
1-7 vs Brazil in 1950
2-5 vs Brazil in 198 (final)
*For the 5th time, a team that scored 5+ goals in a World Cup match then conceded 5+ goals in the next one (in two cases it happened to Sweden):
1938: Sweden, 8-0 vs Cuba and 1-5 vs Hungary
1954: Austria, 5-0 vs Czechoslovakia and 7-5 vs Switzerland
1954: Austria, 7-5 vs Switzerland and 1-6 vs Germany
1954: Turkey, 7-0 vs South Korea and 2-7 vs Germany
2026: Sweden, 5-1 vs Tunisia and 1-5 vs Netherlands
*Four players have scored multiple goals at two different men’s World Cup tournaments for the Netherlands:
Johnny Rep (1974, 1978)
Dennis Bergkamp (1994, 1998)
Arjen Robben (2010, 2014)
Cody Gakpo (2022, 2026)
*Brian Brobbey and Cody Gakpo are just the second duo to both score 2+ goals in a World Cup game for the Netherlands after Robin van Persie and Arjen Robben vs Spain in 2014.
*Crysencio Summerville is the third “Oranje” player to ever score in his first two World Cup games (vs Japan and Sweden), after:
Memphis Depay in 2014 (vs Australia y Chile)
Cody Gakpo in 2022 (vs Senegal y Ecuador)
Germany vs Ivory Coast 2-1 (Group E)
*Germany have advanced beyond the group stage for the first time 12 years, after two failures in 2018 and 2022.
*Following this comeback (0-1 to 2-1), Germany now stand alone at the top of the ranking of teams with the most victories in matches where they were trailing at some point in World Cup history (16), one more than Brazil (15).
The next are far behind: Uruguay, Sweden, Italy, Spain, France, Netherlands are far behind (6 each).
*Germany have conceded at least one goal in each of their last 8 World Cup matches. This is their worst run in the competition since their first 9 matches at the World Cup from May 1934 to June 1954.
Germany’s Manuel Neuer is the first goalkeeper to concede at least one goal in 8 consecutive World Cup matches since Jorge Campos with Mexico from 1994 to 1998 (also 8).
*Neuer has played his 21st game at a World Cup and is now the goalkeeper with the most World Cup games, overtaking France’s Hugo Lloris (20).
Sepp Maier (Germany) and Claudio Taffarel (Brazil) are next with 18 games.
*This is the 3rd match in the history that Germany have won in the World Cup thanks to a goal scored in stoppage time (Deniz Undav at 93 minutes 31 seconds), after:
vs Poland 1-0 on 14 June 2006 (Oliver Neuville, 90+1′)
vs Sweden 2-1 on 23 June 2018 (Toni Kroos, 90+5′)
*Deniz Undav is the first German player since Miroslav Klose in 2002 to score in each of his first two World Cup matches.
*Undav is the 4th player in the history of the World Cup to score in each of his first two matches of the tournament, coming off the bench in both (vs Curaçao and Tunisia), after:
Ricardo Peláez (Mexico, in 1998, vs South Korea and the Netherlands)
Memphis Depay (Netherlands, in 2014, vs Australia and Chile)
Álvaro Morata (Spain, in 2022, vs Costa Rica and Germany)
*Undav was involved in five goals at this World Cup, all of his scoring points coming as a substitute; only Roger Milla for Cameroon in 1990 had achieved so many goal involvements as a substitute in a single World Cup in the competition history.
André Schürrle in the next: 4 for Germany in 2014.
*Undav became the first player to score multiple goals (3) and provide multiple assists (2) at the 2026 World Cup.
And he hasn’t even started a game!
*Undav is the 6th player in the history of the World Cup to record 3+ goals and 2+ assists in his first two matches of the tournament. The precedents:
1954: Max Morlock (Germany, 4G+2A vs Turkey twice)
1970: Gerd Müller (Germany, 4G+2A vs Morocco and Bulgaria)
1974: Grzegorz Lato (Poland, 4G+2A vs Argentina and Haiti)
1986: Preben Elkjær (Denmark, 4G+2A vs Scotland and Uruguay)
2014: Karim Benzema (France, 3G+2A vs Honduras and Switzerland)
Undav is the only one of the six who did it as a sub in both matches.
Ecuador vs Curaçao 0-0 (Group E)
*Curaçao is now the least populated country (193,000 inhabitants) that have gained points in a World Cup, ahead of:
Iceland (330,000 inhabitants), vs Argentina in 2018
Cape Verde (490,000 inhabitants), vs Spain in 2026
*Ecuador are the first team to have 15 shots on target in a single match without scoring a single goal in the history of the World Cup.
The previous record belonged to the Netherlands (13 shots on target and 0 goals against Peru in 1978).
*Eloy Room of Curaçao is the first goalkeeper with 15 saves in a 90-minute match in the World Cup.
Tim Howard made 15 saves for the United States against Belgium on 1 July 2014 but in 120 minutes.
*Juninho and Leandro Bacuna (Curaçao) became the first brothers to receive a caution in the same match in the history of the World Cup.
*Enner Valencia played his 8th match for Ecuador in the World Cup, equaling Édison Méndez’s national record (3 games in 2002, 4 in 2006, and 1 in 2014).
Tunisia vs Japan 0-4 (Group F)
*This is tTunisia is the first team to have lost each of their first two matches at a World Cup by a four-goal margin since Greece in 1994 (Argentina 4-0 Greece on 21 June 1994, Bulgaria 4-0 Greece on 26 June 1994).he 1000th match in the history of the World Cup.
*Tunisia became the first African team in history to concede 4+ goals in each of their first two matches at a World Cup (also 1-5 vs Sweden).
*Tunisia is the first team to have lost each of their first two matches at a World Cup by a four-goal margin since Greece in 1994 (Argentina 4-0 Greece on 21 June 1994, Bulgaria 4-0 Greece on 26 June 1994).
*Tunisia has conceded 9 goals in its first two matches of the 2026 World Cup. No African team has conceded so many goals in their first two matches of a World Cup since Zaire 1974 (11 conceded: 0-2 vs Scotland and 0-9 vs Yugoslavia).
*Tunisia hadn’t conceded 4+ goals in three consecutive matches (including 0-5 vs Belgium in 6 June friendly) since July-August 1960 (also 3).
*Japan is the first Asian team to hold a four-goal lead at any point in any World Cup match.
*Tunisia conceded their first goal after four minutes under Hervé Renard, a record for a coach making his debut with the national team since 2000, surpassing Roger Lemerre (5th minute).
*The last two backheel goals in the World Cup have been against teams managed by Hervé Renard (Iago Aspas against Morocco in 2018 and Daichi Kamada against Tunisia in 2026).
*Kamada is the second player to score in Japan’s first two matches at a World Cup, after Junichi Inamoto in 2002.
*Ayasa Ueda is the first Japanese player to score a brace in a World Cup.
*Hervé Renard became the first coach to lose by a four-goal margin in his debut with Tunisia in an international match since Milan Kristic on 3 January 1960, against Yugoslavia (1-5).