🇨🇼Curacao

1. 1

   Houston · NRG Stadium

   at 🇩🇪Germany ·Jun 14 L 1–7

   15 m · 72k · retractable · 34°C

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   Full time · The Report Defiance in the rout

   🇨🇼Curacao 1–7 🇩🇪Germany

   The scoreline will read 7-1, and there is no hiding from it. But for nine minutes in Houston, Curacao led the World Cup: Livano Comenencia struck in the twenty-first, and a nation of barely more than a hundred thousand had its name on the board against Germany. After that the gulf told, as everyone knew it would against a squad valued nearly forty times higher. Two shots on target, one goal that mattered to everyone who scored it. They lost by six and they scored against Germany. Both of those things are true.

   Goals 6' F. Nmecha · 21' L. Comenencia · 38' N. Schlotterbeck · 45' K. Havertz (pen) · 47' J. Musiala · 68' N. Brown · 78' D. Undav · 88' K. Havertz

   xG 0.41–4.22 ·Poss 35% ·Shots 8 (2 on target) ·Corners 1 ·GK saves 4

2. 2

   Kansas City · Arrowhead Stadium

   at 🇪🇨Ecuador ·Jun 21 D 0–0

   270 m · 76k · open · 31°C 🔥

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   Full time · The Report A goalless draw to frame

   🇨🇼Curacao 0–0 🇪🇨Ecuador

   A goalless draw has rarely felt so much like a victory. Curaçao, the smallest nation ever to reach a World Cup, spent the afternoon under siege — a quarter of the ball, outshot twenty-eight to ten — and walked off Arrowhead Stadium with a clean sheet and a point. The expected-goals column reads 0.48 to 3.06, and every Curaçao defender will wear it like a medal. This was backs-to-the-wall, last-ditch, hold-on-for-everything football, written off before kickoff by all but the eleven men doing it. Sometimes the bravest thing on the pitch is simply refusing to lose.

   xG 0.48–3.06 ·Poss 25% ·Shots 10

3. 3

   Philadelphia · Lincoln Financial Field

   🇨🇮Ivory Coast ·Jun 25 L 0–2

   12 m · 69k · open · 30°C

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   Full time · The Report Outclassed, not overrun

   🇨🇼Curacao 0–2 🇨🇮Ivory Coast

   Two goals from Nicolas Pepe were the difference, and on the night they were difference enough. Curacao came in as the forty-fifth-ranked side in the field against an Ivory Coast built on far deeper resources, and that gulf was always likely to tell. It told through Pepe, inside seven minutes and again past the hour. Yet for long spells Curacao defended with shape and refused to let a hard night become a humiliating one. They were beaten by better players, not broken by them, and there is a difference there worth keeping hold of.

   Goals 7' N. Pepe · 64' N. Pepe

   xG —–— ·Poss —% ·Shots —

• 2,702km travelled
• 258m altitude swing
• 34°hottest · Houston

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