🇨🇻Cape Verde

1. 1

   Atlanta · Mercedes-Benz Stadium

   at 🇪🇸Spain ·Jun 15 D 0–0

   320 m · 71k · retractable · 31°C

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   🇨🇻Cape Verde 0–0 🇪🇸Spain

   Six shots, twenty-six percent of the ball, and a clean sheet against one of the favourites. Cape Verde came to Atlanta and simply refused to fall. Seven saves stood between Spain's twenty-seven attempts and the goal that never came, a back line throwing itself in front of everything for ninety minutes. A nation valued at a fraction of its opponent walked off with a point nobody outside their own camp expected. This is the kind of goalless draw you frame and hang in the hall, and they earned every minute of it.

   Goals No goals

   xG 0.3–2.29 ·Poss 26% ·Shots 6 (1 on target) ·Corners 1 ·GK saves 7

2. 2

   Miami · Hard Rock Stadium

   at 🇺🇾Uruguay ·Jun 21 D 2–2

   2 m · 65k · open · 32°C 🔥

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   Full time · The Report A point that feels like a win

   🇨🇻Cape Verde 2–2 🇺🇾Uruguay

   Cape Verde were second best for long stretches and could not have cared less by the end. Kenny Lenini put them ahead inside 21 minutes; when Uruguay's quickfire double either side of the interval looked to have settled it, Hélio Varela struck again on the hour to claw back a point. They mustered 0.77 expected goals to Uruguay's 2.28 and a third of the possession — then turned two of their few clear sights into goals. Clinical is the kindest word for it, and the fair one. A draw that will feel like a win.

   Goals 21' K. Lenini · 44' M. Araujo · 45' A. Canobbio · 61' H. Varela

   xG 0.77–2.28 ·Poss 34% ·Shots 7

3. 3

   Houston · NRG Stadium

   🇸🇦Saudi Arabia ·Jun 27 D 0–0

   15 m · 72k · retractable · 34°C

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   Full time · The Report Everything but the goal

   🇨🇻Cape Verde 0–0 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

   Cape Verde will wonder how this finished goalless. They were the better side for long stretches — fifteen shots to seven, an expected-goals line of 1.46 to 0.4 — and created more than enough to win a tight game against Saudi Arabia. What they lacked was the final touch. A point keeps them ticking along, but on this evidence it should have been three, and the missing ingredient was not chances but composure in front of goal. Encouraging in almost every respect except the one that decides matches.

   xG 1.46–0.4 ·Poss 51% ·Shots 15

4. 4

   Miami · Hard Rock Stadium

   at 🇦🇷Argentina ·Jul 3

   2 m · 65k · open · 32°C 🔥

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   Full time · The Report Within touching distance

   🇨🇻Cape Verde 2–3 🇦🇷Argentina

   Cape Verde, ranked thirty-ninth and dead last of the sides here, took Argentina to the very end and were ninety seconds from a shootout. Deroy Duarte cancelled out Lionel Messi, and Sidny Lopes Cabral's extra-time strike made it two-all against the giants. Only an own goal denied them. They managed just 0.45 expected goals to Argentina's 2.16 — this was defiance and opportunism, not domination — but they looked the seventh seed in the eye and did not blink. Out, and utterly unbowed.

   Goals 29' L. Messi · 59' D. Duarte · 93' L. Martínez · 103' S. Cabral · 111' own goal

   xG 0.45–2.16 ·Poss 36% ·Shots 16

• 4,049km travelled
• 318m altitude swing
• 34°hottest · Houston

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