🇫🇷🇪🇸 Semi-final travel overview: France vs Spain. Spain have travelled almost 3x as far as France at this World Cup: 🇫🇷 France — 3,859 km 🇪🇸 Spain — 10,374 km Spain also crossed time zones on 5 of 6 travel legs, compared with 1 of 6 for France.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇷 Semi-final travel overview: England vs Argentina. England have covered much more ground on the road to Atlanta: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England — 9,171 km 🇦🇷 Argentina — 5,644 km Both teams have had 4 days since their last game, but England’s total travel load has been far heavier.

Statistically the most probable path for Argentina, BEFORE the World Cup: R32 vs Uruguay R16 vs Turkey QF vs Portugal SF vs England F vs Spain

🌍 Quarter-finalists by continent across the last four World Cups. 2026 is the most Europe-heavy quarter-final line-up in this period, level with 2018: Europe — 6 Africa — 1 South America — 1 All other continents — 0

🌍 2026 World Cup teams by continent, from the group stage to the quarter-finals. Quarter-finalists: Europe — 6 Africa — 1 South America — 1 Asia, North America, Oceania — 0

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jude Bellingham’s brace against Mexico is England’s first in a World Cup knockout match since Gary Lineker against Cameroon in 1990.

France have scored 16 of their 17 awarded penalties in World Cup history, a 94% conversion! StatPiece archive: statpiece.com/archive/penalt…+

Europe doing worse than in the last two World Cup, North America outperforming with three teams among the last 16

The progress of each continent through the 2026 World Cup: A big drop off for Africa in the round of 32

📊 How teams fared in the Round of 32, based on their group-stage finish: Group winners: 10 of 12 advanced ✅ Group runners-up: 5 of 12 advanced ✅ Best third-placed teams: 1 of 8 advanced ✅ The only third-placed team to survive the Round of 32: Paraguay 🇵🇾

🌍 None of nine African teams won their game in the Round of 32. Two still advanced on penalties. 🇿🇦 South Africa 0-1 Canada 🇨🇦 🇲🇦 Morocco 1-1 (3-2) Netherlands 🇳🇱 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast 1-2 Norway 🇳🇴 🇸🇳 Senegal 2-3 Belgium 🇧🇪 🇨🇩 DR Congo 1-2 England 🏴 🇩🇿 Algeria 0-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 🇪🇬 Egypt 1-1 (4-2) Australia 🇦🇺 🇨🇻 Cape Verde 2-3 Argentina 🇦🇷 🇬🇭 Ghana 0-1 Colombia 🇨🇴

Seven out of eight best numbers 3 from the group stage were eliminated in the Round of 32. Paraguay is the only one still going! 🇵🇾 Paraguay 1-1 (4-3) Germany 🇩🇪 🇧🇦 Bosnia-Herzegovina 0-2 USA 🇺🇸 🇪🇨 Ecuador 0-2 Mexico 🇲🇽 🇸🇪 Sweden 0-3 France 🇫🇷 🇸🇳 Senegal 2-3 Belgium 🇧🇪 🇩🇿 Algeria 0-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭 🇨🇩 DR Congo 1-2 England 🏴 🇬🇭 Ghana 0-1 Colombia 🇨🇴

🇦🇷 Lionel Messi is the first player in World Cup history to score in every phase of the tournament. Group stage — ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽ 14 Round of 32 — ⚽ 1 Round of 16 — ⚽ 1 Quarterfinal — ⚽ 1 Semifinal — ⚽ 1 Final — ⚽⚽ 2 Full archive: statpiece.com/archive/goals?…

Argentina have won more than half of their games within extra time when reaching that stage Statpiece.com/ai

🌍 Players to score at 4+ World Cups: 🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo — 6 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022, 2026 🇦🇷 Lionel Messi — 5 2006, 2014, 2018, 2022, 2026 4 tournaments: 🇧🇷 Pelé — 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970 🇭🇷 Ivan Perišić 🆕 — 2014, 2018, 2022, 2026 🇩🇪 Miroslav Klose — 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 🇩🇪 Uwe Seeler — 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970 Find this using statpiece.com/ai

This was Cristiano Ronaldo’s first ever World Cup goal in a Knock Out round! 2006 — vs Iran — penalty 2010 — vs North Korea 2014 — vs Ghana 2018 — vs Spain — penalty 2018 — vs Spain 2018 — vs Spain 2018 — vs Morocco 2022 — vs Ghana — penalty 2026 — vs Uzbekistan 2026 — vs Uzbekistan 2026 — vs Croatia — penalty

🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo has scored his 11th World Cup goal. All-time World Cup goals: 🇦🇷 Messi — 19 🇫🇷 Mbappé — 18 🇩🇪 Klose — 16 🇧🇷 Ronaldo — 15 🇩🇪 Gerd Müller — 14 🏴 Kane — 13 🇫🇷 Fontaine — 13 🇧🇷 Pelé — 12 🇩🇪 Klinsmann — 11 🇭🇺 Kocsis — 11 🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo — 11

Cristiano Ronaldo scores his 11th World Cup goal, equaling Kocsis and Klinsmann in the historic rankings. Four of his goals have come from the penalty spot. See the archive: statpiece.com/archive/goals?…

Seven of 12 red cards this World Cup were given in games involving one of the host team. Too much pressure on those games? All red cards: statpiece.com/archive/red-ca…