Picture : James Rodríguez set a new record for most World Cup appearances for Colombia (11),
World Cup 2026 Statistics – Day 17 (June 27) – Group K
Colombia vs Portugal 0-0 (Group K)
*Colombia have topped the group in each of their last three World Cup campaigns (also in 2014 and 2018).
*Colombia recorded their first-ever 0-0 draw in World Cup history in their 25th match.
This ended the second-longest streak of World Cup matches played without a single goalless draw.
The record remains held by Austria (32 matches), now followed by Saudi Arabia (21).
*James Rodríguez set a new record for most World Cup appearances for Colombia (11), surpassing Freddy Rincón and Carlos Valderrama (both 10).
*Cristiano Ronaldo has tied Lothar Matthäus as players with joint-second most matches (25) played at the World Cup, behind Lionel Messi (28).
*Portugal’s Roberto Martinez has won only one of his last five World Cup matches as сoach (3 draws, 1 loss), after winning seven of his first eight games in the competition.
*European teams have won only one of their six matches against CONMEBOL nations at the 2026 World Cup (1 draw, 4 losses). That victory was Spain’s against Uruguay (1-0).
DR Congo vs Uzbekistan 3-1 (Group K)
*DR Congo became the 11th African country to advance from the group stage in the World Cup and the fifth to do so for the first time in 2026, after Cabo Verde, Congo DR, Côte d‘Ivoire, Egypt, South Africa.
*Yoane Wissa (DR Congo) became the 12th player in the history of the World Cup to score his national team’s first two goals in the tournament, and the last to do so after Vittek (Slovakia, 2010).
Among African nations, Abdelrahman Fawzi was the only one to do so before: he scored both two first goals for Egypt in 1934.
*Wissa snaps a streak of three consecutive missed penalties in the 2026 World Cup: by Lionel Messi (Argentina), Strand Larsen (Norway), and Mehdi Taremi (Iran).
*Uzbekistan became the first nation to concede at least three goals in each of their first three World Cup matches since New Zealand in 1982.