1 - The official X page for Stats Perform’s Dutch and Belgian football coverage, brought to you by OptaJohan. Illuminating.
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2 - Ismael Saibari is the second PSV player to score against Brazil on the FIFA World Cup, after Georginio Wijnaldum in 2014.
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93:59 - Boualem Khoukhi’s equaliser for Qatar is the third-latest equaliser in the group stages of the FIFA World Cup on record (since 1966), behind only Silvestre Varela for Portugal v USA in 2014 (94:34) and Luis Hernández for Mexico v Netherlands in 1998 (94:04).
Upset.
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3 - Players with 3 shots, created chances, dribbles, ball recoveries in the final third and fouls won in a single FIFA World Cup game this century:
Eden Hazard v Panama in 2018
Eden Hazard v Tunisia in 2018
Neymar v Mexico in 2018
Malik Tillman v Paraguay in 2026 🆕
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3 - The #USMNT has won a FIFA World Cup match by three goals for the third time with the previous two happening in 1930 (3-0 vs. Belgium in 1930, 3-0 vs. Paraguay in 1930).
Intent.
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83 - Chris Richards completed all 83 passes he attempted for the #USMNT against Paraguay, the most passes with a 100 percent accuracy rate by any player in a FIFA World Cup match since 1966.
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1 - Cyle Larin scored Canada's first-ever equalizer at the FIFA World Cup, doing so with his first touch of the match after coming on as a substitute. Entrance.
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100% - Bosnia and Herzegovina's Jovo Lukic is the first forward on record (since 1966) to record 9 aerial duels in a FIFA World Cup match and win every single one of them (9/9 - 100%). Headstrong.
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21y94d - Esmir Bajraktarevic is the second-youngest player to ever feature for Bosnia and Herzegovina at the FIFA World Cup (21 years and 94 days), behind tonight's captain Sead Kolasinac (20 years old in 2014). Eras.
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87.5 - Ruud Nijstad recorded the highest tackle success rate among all players with 15 tackles in the @eredivisie 2025-26 (87.5%) and was the youngest player with 1500 minutes in the Dutch top-flight last season (1675 - born on 17 January 2008). Sealed.
🔴 ✍️ 𝐑𝐮𝐮𝐝 𝐍𝐢𝐣𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐝 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐛𝐢𝐣 𝐅𝐂 𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞
fctwente.nl/nieuws/ruud-nijs…
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23 - Beth Mead and Vivianne Miedema have combined for more goals than any other duo in @BarclaysWSL history.
Reunited.
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1 - Against Czechia, Korea Republic's Hwang In-Beom became the first player to score at the World Cup while playing his club football for Feyenoord since Stefan de Vrij in 2014, who scored for the Netherlands against Spain. Deeds.
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With just one day to go until the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins, here are the latest Opta supercomputer projections.
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Jun 10
Since the start of Euro 2020 qualification, only Belgium (52.2%) have allocated a greater proportion of minutes to players aged 28 than Croatia (49.4%) among the top-10 ranked European nations.
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Jun 9
𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 ⏩ 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬?
Norway haven't played a men's World Cup since 1998, and yet they go into 2026 as arguably the 'dark horses'.
What they lack in pedigree they make up for in star quality.
theanalyst.com/articles/norw…
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1st - Mats Rots among all defenders in the Eredivisie 2025-26:
🥇 Chances created from open play (48)
🥇 Touches in the opposition’s box (97)
🥇 Dribbles attempted (99)
🥇 Dribbled past (41)
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Jun 9
Can Belgium’s Next Generation Get the Golden Generation Over the Line?
Only a few members of Belgium‘s golden generation will be at this summer’s World Cup. Can the younger members of their squad help take the nation’s legends to glory?
theanalyst.com/articles/belg…
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