Picture : Eman Ashour scored Egypt’s first World Cup knockout-stage goal since Abdelrahman Fawzi
World Cup 2026 Statistics – Day 23 (July 3) – Round of 32
Australia vs Egypt 1-1 (pen. 2-4)
*Eman Ashour scored Egypt’s first World Cup knockout-stage goal since Abdelrahman Fawzi against Hungary on 27 May 1934: the longest gap (92 years) between two goals scored by a nation at this stage in the competition’s history.
*Ashour’s goal marks the longest gap (92 years, from 1934 to 2026) between two consecutive goals scored by a national team in the World Cup knockout stage in the tournament’s history. The next such gaps:
Norway – 88 years (from 1938 to 2026)
Switzerland – 68 years (from 1954 to 2022)
USA – 68 years (from 1934 to 2002)
*Ashour became the third player from the Egyptian league (Al Ahly) to score in a World Cup knockout stage match in the tournament’s history, after:
just mentioned Fawzi (Al Masry) vs Hungary in 1934,
Emmanuel Amunike (Zamalek) vs Italy in 1994.
*Egypt’s Mohamed Hany became the second player in history to score two own goals in a single World Cup tournament, following Ivan Vutsov (Bulgaria) in 1966. (In the game vs Hungary, Vutsov was the player who really scored own goal, not Davidov as reported in some media).
*Thirteen own goals have been scored at the 2026 World Cup: new record for a single edition of the tournament (surpassing the 12 scored in 2018).
*In 12 of the last 14 World Cup penalty shootouts, the team that took the first kick (as Australia in this game) was eliminated.
During this recent period, only Morocco (against Spain) and Croatia (against Brazil), both at the 2022 edition, opposed the trend.
*It is the first ever knockout match between two teams from Asian and African confederations in the history of the World Cup.
Any team from those confederations reaching the knockout stage before faced only a European or South American opponent.