{"id":885,"date":"2018-06-12T18:02:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/?p=885"},"modified":"2018-06-12T18:07:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:37:18","slug":"10-stat-extract-from-the-upcoming-world-cup-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/2018\/06\/12\/10-stat-extract-from-the-upcoming-world-cup-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribe Top 10 Stat Extract from the Upcoming World Cup 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1.Currently longest unbeaten run by International teams<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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1.20 – Spain<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spain have scored in 20 consecutive matches, since a 2-0 defeat against Italy. They equal the team record for the longest scoring streak (20, 1947-1951).<\/p>\n

Most appearances for Spain: Iker Casillas (167) Sergio Ramos (152) Xavi (133) ANDR\u00c9S INIESTA (127)<\/p>\n

2.Belgium-19<\/strong><\/p>\n

Belgium defender Thomas Meunier was directly involved in seven goals against Gibraltar in August 2017 (3 goals, 4 assists) – no other player in European WCQ was involved in more than four in a single game.<\/p>\n

3. Morocco-18<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Atlas Lions have qualified for the World Cup 2018\u00a0unbeaten in the third round of qualifying, with three wins and three draws in their six matches, but they have also not conceded a goal.<\/p>\n

4.Peru-15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peru are participating in their first World Cup since 1982 – that gap of 36 years between appearances is the biggest of any of the 32 teams that have qualified for the 2018 World Cup<\/p>\n

5.Denmark-15<\/strong><\/p>\n

Denmark equal their record of keeping a clean sheet in four consecutive matches, set on three previous occasions: 1986-1987, 1993 and most recently 1995.<\/p>\n

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2 Panama qualified for the 2018 World Cup finals, despite having a negative goal difference in their final group stage of CONCACAF qualifying (9 goals scored, 10 conceded).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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3.<\/span>Since 1966, Switzerland\u2019s Xherdan Shaqiri is the only player to score a World Cup hat-trick entirely with his left foot, doing so against Honduras at the last tournament in Brazil.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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4.This will be Uruguay boss Oscar Tab\u00e1rez\u2019s fourth World Cup appearance as a manager (following 1990, 2010 and 2014); more than any other manager at this year\u2019s tournament.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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5. Manuel Lanzini (25 years old) is replaced by Enzo P\u00e9rez (32) in Argentina’s @<\/s>FIFAWorldCup<\/a> squad. This replacement makes Argentina now the oldest squad on average at the 2018 #<\/s>WorldCup<\/a><\/span> (29 years, 205 days on opening day), two days older than Costa Rica<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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6<\/strong><\/span>.Rafael\u00a0M\u00e1rquez could feature in his 5th different World Cup finals tournament in Russia, equalling the record currently held by Antonio Carbajal (Mexico) and Lothar Matth\u00e4us (Germany)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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7<\/strong><\/span>.This will be \u00d3scar Ram\u00edrez\u2019s first World Cup as a manager, having played every single minute of Costa Rica\u2019s 1990 World Cup campaign; <\/strong>their first-ever<\/strong> appearance in the competition<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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8.Brazil are<\/strong>\u00a0the only team to have taken part in every single World Cup since 1930, with Russia 2018 becoming their 21st appearance in as many tournaments<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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9<\/strong><\/span>.Since their first appearance in 1994, no African team has taken part in as many World Cups as Nigeria (6 – 1994, 1998, 2002, 2010, 2014 and 2018)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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10<\/strong><\/span>.Iceland are competing in their first World Cup and are one of just two nations at the 2018 World Cup making their maiden appearance, along with Panama.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1.Currently longest unbeaten run by International teams 1.20 – Spain Spain have scored in 20 consecutive matches, since a 2-0 defeat against Italy. They equal the team record for the longest scoring streak (20, 1947-1951). Most appearances for Spain: Iker Casillas (167) Sergio Ramos (152) Xavi (133) ANDR\u00c9S INIESTA (127) 2.Belgium-19 Belgium defender Thomas Meunier was directly involved in seven goals against Gibraltar in August 2017 (3 goals, 4 assists) – no other player in European WCQ was involved in more than four in a single game. 3. Morocco-18 The Atlas Lions have qualified for the World Cup 2018\u00a0unbeaten in the third round of qualifying, with three wins and … Continue reading “Tribe Top 10 Stat Extract from the Upcoming World Cup 2018”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-world-cup-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}