Picture : Gonzalo Plata and Ecuador bet Germany in the last game to reach the next round !
World Cup 2026 Statistics – Day 15 (June 25) – Group E
Ecuador vs Germany 2-1 (Group E)
*Germany have broken their winning streak of 11 matches across all competitions.
*Germany suffered their first World Cup defeat against a CONMEBOL team since the final against Brazil on 30 June 2002.
*CONMEBOL is taming UEFA at this World Cup having won all 4 games of this rivalry (also Turkey vs Paraguay 0-1, Argentina vs Austria 2-0 and
Scotland vs Brazil 0-3).
*Ecuador recorded their second World Cup victory after falling behind, following the win against Honduras on 20 June 2014.
*Ecuador are the 2nd non-European team to come from behind to beat Germany in the entire history of the World Cup, after Japan (2-1 in 2022).
*Germany has suffered 8 such comebacks against them overall in World Cups (joint-most along with Sweden), also:
2-4 vs Switzerland in 1938
1-3 vs Sweden in 1958
2-4 vs England in 1966
3-4 vs Italy in 1970
2-3 vs Austria in 1978
1-2 vs Bulgaria in 1994
*Leroy Sané’s goal vs Ecuador (1 minute 49 seconds) is Germany’s second-fastest scored in their World Cup history behind Ernst Lehner’s goal against Austria in 1934 (reportedly 25 seconds).
*Following Nilson Angulo’s strike for Ecuador, four different Sunderland players have now scored at the 2026 World Cup, with only PSG having more individual scorers at the tournament (6).
*Germany haven’t kept a clean sheet at the World Cup since the 2014 final against Argentina.
They have conceded goals in 9 consecutive matches in the competition.
This equals their worst-ever run: 9 straight games, a record set between their debut in 1934 and 1954.
*Manuel Neuer has conceded goals in 9 consecutive World Cup matches. He ties the second-worst record in the tournament’s history for a goalkeeper (Thomas Ravelli, Sweden), trailing only Antonio Carbajal (Mexico, 10).
*Germany fielded their oldest (an average age of 28 years and 242 days) starting lineup in a World Cup match since the 1998 quarter-final against Croatia (30 years and 170 days).
Curaçao vs Ivory Coast 0-2 (Group E)
*Ivory Coast have recorded two victories in a single World Cup tournament for the first time in their history.
*Nicolas Pépé became the second player to score a brace for Ivory Coast at the World Cup, following Aruna Dindane against Serbia on 21 June 2006.
*Pépé became the second-oldest (31 years and 27 days old) African player to score a brace in a World Cup match, behind Roger Milla of Cameroon in 1990 (who did so twice at age 38).
*Pépé became the third France-born player to score a World Cup brace for a foreign national team, following Jacques Fatton (for Switzerland) and Gonzalo Higuaín (for Argentina).
*Pépé became the 20th different player to have scored 2+ goals in a single match at the tournament, more than both in 2022 (18) and 2018 (10).