🇶🇦 FIFA World Cup 2022 - Round 2: Preview, Stats, Results and Live Updates

:fr: Kylian Mbappe:

:black_small_square: 31 goals for France, equalling Zidane
:black_small_square: 7 World Cup goals
:black_small_square: 248 goals in his career
:black_small_square: 15 career trophies

He’s only 23 years old. :clap:t4::fire:

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Since winning the 2014 final, Germany have won just ONE World Cup match :flushed:

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The match between Argentina :argentina: and Mexico :mexico: in Lusail Stadium witnessed the highest number of attendance in a World Cup match of 88,966 in almost 30 years, second only to the final match between Brazil :brazil: and Italy :it: in 1994 which was attended by 94,194 fans.

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Line ups.


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WHAT A GAME!

24’ :kr: 0-1 :ghana:
34’ :kr: 0-2 :ghana:
58’ :kr: 1-2 :ghana:
61’ :kr: 2-2 :ghana:
68’ :kr: 2-3 :ghana:

A classic between South Korea and Ghana :clap:

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2 - At 22 years and 118 days old, Mohammed Kudus is the second youngest African player to score two goals in a World Cup match, after Ahmed Musa (21y 254d) for Nigeria against Argentina in 2014. Kudos.

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2 - Cho Gue-Sung is the first Korea Republic player to score more than once in a World Cup game, while he is the first Asian player to score two headers in a World Cup game. Brace.

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Cho Gue-Sung has scored more headed goals (2) than any other player at the 2022 World Cup.

And he scored them both within three minutes against Ghana. :flight_departure:

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Mohammed Kudus’ game by numbers vs. South Korea:

83 minutes
100% tackles made
100% shot accuracy
10 x possession won (most)
4 duels won
2 passes into opp. box
2 touches in opp. box
2 tackles made
2 fouls won
2 crosses
2 shots
2 goals

Superstar in the making. :sparkles:

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:cameroon: Cameroon 3-3 Serbia :serbia:
:kr: South Korea 2-3 Ghana :ghana:

And we still have Brazil, Portugal, Uruguay and Switzerland to play :sweat_smile:

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Cameroon and Ghana didn’t come to mess around :muscle:

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:tickets: Brazil have booked their ticket to the Round of 16

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Casemiro has now scored as many World Cup goals as Kaká (1).

A sensational strike. :rocket:

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Brazil at the 2022 World Cup:

◉ 2 games
◉ 2 clean sheets
◉ 2 wins

◎ 11 shots faced
◎ 0 shots on target faced
◎ 0 goals conceded

Alisson has not had to make a save. :beach_umbrella:

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0 - #Brazil :brazil: have become in just the second nation to not face a single shot on target in their first two #WorldCup games in a single edition after France in 1998 (2 games) since 1966. Unbreakable.

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Bruno Fernandes has been involved in three of Portugal’s four goals at the World Cup :tipping_hand_man:

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So far at the World Cup:

Games with goals scored in the first half: 15
Games that were 0-0 at halftime: 17

:man_shrugging:

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So far at the World Cup:

Games with goals scored in the first half: 15
Games that were 0-0 at halftime: 17

:man_shrugging:

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This Ghanian coach took his chance to get a selfie with Son Heung-min whilst he was crying following a World Cup defeat :grimacing:

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This pitch invader during the Portugal-Uruguay match was holding a rainbow flag.

The front of his shirt read ‘Save Ukraine’ and the back read ‘Respect For Iranian Women’.

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