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Norway is the first ever country to make 10+ changes to their starting XI in consecutive World Cup matches in a single edition.
Antonio Nusa’s opener was Norway’s first World Cup knockout stage goal since 1938 (Arne Brustad vs Italy).
Note — The 1938 World Cup did not have a Group Stage; it began with the Round of 16.
Martin Odegaard is only the third player on record (from 1966) to assist a goal in each of his first three World Cup appearances, after Igor Belanov for USSR in 1986 and Michael Ballack for Germany in 2002
Amad is the third African player to score two goals as a substitute in a single World Cup (After Roger Milla 4, in 1990 and Pape Gueye 2, in 2026).
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Ivory Coast’s Yan Diomande is only the second African player in history to play as many as four World Cup matches while still a teenager, after Nigeria’s Sunday Oliseh in 1994
Erling Haaland has five goals this World Cup, one behind Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi in the goalscoring charts.
Haaland has scored in each of his last 13 competitive internationals for Norway — scoring 25 goals in this run.
There have been 46 goals scored by substitutes at the 2026 World Cup, as many as the 2022 (30) and 2018 (16) World Cups combined.
Ivory Coast had 48 touches in the opposing penalty area tonight, the second-highest total for an African team in the World Cup since 1966. In fact, over that period, only Brazil against Belgium in 2018 (52) and Germany against Italy in 1970 (49) had more penalty box touches in a knockout round match that they subsequently lost.
