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🇫🇷 France 3-1 Senegal 🇸🇳
⚽️ Kylian Mbappe
⚽️ Bradley Barcola
⚽️ Ibrahim Mbaye
⚽️ Kylian Mbappe
France turn it on in the second half to beat Senegal 3-1🔥
🚨⚽️ | NEW: Tino Livramento will miss the 2026 FIFA World Cup with a calf injury and be replaced by Trevoh Chalobah in the squad, just a day before Thomas Tuchel’s side play their opening game of the tournament.
🏴 The Newcastle United full-back, capable of playing on both sides of defence, would have been in contention to make his major tournament debut against Croatia on Wednesday
➡️ In the 2025/26 season, Livramento was limited to just 17 Premier League appearances due to various injuries
In case you didn’t watch the World Cup yesterday (matchday 5)
>Cabo Verde drew World Cup favorites Spain in a historic 0-0 match.
>Belgium drew 1-1 with Egypt after Lukaku came on and immediately forced the equaliser.
>Saudi Arabia drew 1-1 with Uruguay. Uruguay equalized in the 80' after barraging Saudi with 20 shots in the second half.
>Iran drew 2-2 with New Zealand, my match of the day
>Cabo Verde's 40 y/o keeper, Vozinha, gained over 5 million followers after his 8 save performance vs Spain.
>After today, Spain have still only won 3 World Cup games since that 2010 Final.
>Uruguay vs Saudi Arabia ended controversially after the ref blew the final whistle a moment before Saudi were through on a breakaway
>Saudi Arabia's keeper, Mohammed Al Ozaise, made 9 saves in incredible performance vs Uruguay.
>Iran's national anthem was booed ahead of their game.
>Neymar was announced to be expected to Brazil's next match vs Haiti.
Darren Bazeley: The only head coach in FIFA history to coach at the FIFA U-17 World Cup, FIFA U-20 World Cup, Olympic Football Tournament and #FIFAWorldCup! 👏
🚨 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐔𝐏𝐒 📃 #FRASEN
🏆 FIFA World Cup 2026 – Group I, Matchday 1
🇫🇷 FRANCE (4-2-3-1):
Maignan; Koundé, Saliba, Upamecano, Theo Hernández; Tchouaméni, Rabiot; Olise, Dembélé, Doué; Mbappé (C).
🇸🇳 SENEGAL (4-3-3):
Édouard Mendy; Krépin Diatta, Koulibaly (C), Niakhaté, El Hadji Malick Diouf; Pape Gueye, Idrissa Gana Gueye, Lamine Camara; Ismaïla Sarr, Nicolas Jackson, Sadio Mané.
🇹🇳 Tunisia have appointed Herve Renard as their new head coach after firing Sabri Lamouchi just one game into the World Cup.
The Tunisian Football Federation announced the Frenchman had been appointed until the end of the 2026 World Cup.
Cape Verde are the third-smallest nation ever to play at a FIFA World Cup.
Today, they picked up their first-ever World Cup point...and it came against Spain 🤯
Cape Verde had just 26% possession and faced 27 shots, but showed incredible heart to earn the result 💪❤️
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🇪🇸 Spain 0-0 Cape Verde 🇨🇻
Cape Verde pulled off one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history as the African debutants held tournament favourites Spain to a goalless draw in Atlanta.
Vozinha, TAKE A BOW. 👏🇨🇻
No goalkeeper has made more saves from inside the box AND kept a clean sheet in a World Cup game since 2018 than Vozinha (6).
He completed seven saves total in Cape Verde's historic 0-0 draw with Spain, which makes him just the fourth keeper to make 7 saves AND keep a clean sheet in a World Cup game in the last three tournaments:
◎ 9 - Guillermo Ochoa (2018 vs Germany)
◎ 8 - Patrick Beach (2026 vs Türkiye)
◎ 7 - Devis Epassy (2022 vs Brazil)
◉ 7 - Vozinha (2026 vs Spain)
His game by numbers vs Spain:
29/42 passes completed
27 shots conceded
7 saves
6 saves from inside the box
1 save from outside the box
3 crosses caught
A performance for the ages. 🙌
Vozinha (40) is the oldest goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet on his FIFA World Cup debut. 👏
In case you didn’t watch the World Cup yesterday (matchday 3)
>Brazil & Morocco drew 1-1. Morocco were lot better.
>Qatar drew Switzerland 1-1 on a 90 4’ equalizer
>Scotland beat Haiti off a John McGinn goal
>Australia shocked everyone & beat Türkiye 2-0 despite Türkiye attempting 28 shots
>Vini Jr. was awarded MOTM in the Brazil-Morocco game but we all know 18 y/o Ayyoub Bouaddi should have won
>Qatar’s draw vs Switzerland was their first ever point at a World Cup. The entire team collapsed in happiness on the pitch at the final whistle.
>Switzerland were awarded a controversial penalty due to potential offside in the buildup play. FIFA didn’t show the VAR review on TV.
Garry Nevill called it a dictatorship the way FIFA pick and chose when to use VAR
>Scottish fans TOOK OVER Boston Stadium
>That John McGinn goal was football heritage