Morocco, England and the Netherlands are at the forefront of collecting “points”

38 victories, 120 goals, and the absence of a “full score” .. the outcome of the group stage

• Achraf Hakimi led Morocco to qualify for the round of 16.

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• Spain's Alvaro Morata scored 3 goals.

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• Serbian player Mitrovic receives a yellow card from referee Fernando Rapallini.

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The group stage of the Qatar 2022 World Cup ended without any of the teams qualifying for the round of 16 achieving the full mark, in a phenomenon that had not happened in 28 years, specifically since the 1994 World Cup in America.

The 32 teams competing in the World Cup achieved 38 victories out of a total of 48 confrontations, and there were draws in 10 matches, including six matches that ended in a goalless draw.

The Netherlands, England and Morocco topped the teams with the most points in the first round with seven points, as the “Mills” team topped the first group by defeating Senegal and Qatar and tied with Ecuador, while the “Three Lions” team topped the second group after its victory over Iran and Wales and tied with the United States of America. , While the “Atlas Lions” team clinched the top of Group F, with two wins over Belgium and Canada, and a draw with Croatia.

The group stage witnessed the scoring of 120 goals, at a rate of 2.5 goals per match, including two reverse goals by Moroccan Nayef Akrad for Canada, and German Manuel Neuer for Costa Rica.

England and Spain topped the list of the strongest attacks in the group stage, thanks to the English victory over Iran (6-2) and Wales (3-0), while Spain scored in the match in which it beat Costa Rica (7-0), and drew with Germany ( 1-1), and lost to Japan (2-1), while Qatar, Wales, Denmark, Tunisia and Belgium each have one goal for each team.

The teams of the fifth group scored the largest number of goals with a total of 22 goals, then the eighth group with 17 goals, while 15 goals were scored in the first group, 16 goals in the second and seventh, and 12 goals in the third, while the teams of the fourth and sixth groups were the least goals scored, with only 11 goals for each. Collection.

The players of the participating teams in the World Cup Qatar won 14 penalty kicks, nine of which were scored, which were signed by Ecuadorian Valencia against Qatar, Iranian Tarmi against England, Welshman Gareth Bale against the United States of America, Argentine Messi against Saudi Arabia, German Gundogan against Japan, and Portuguese Ronaldo against Ghana, Spain's Ferran Torras against Costa Rica, Portuguese Bruno Fernandez against Uruguay, and Senegalese Ismaila Sarr against Ecuador.

Five penalties were missed in the first round, starting with Poland's Lewandowski against Mexico, then Canadian Alfonso Davis against Belgium, Saudi Arabia's Salem Al-Dosari against Poland, Argentine Lionel Messi against Poland, and Ghanaian Andre Ayew against Uruguay.

Five teams did not taste defeat in the first round, and it is related to the Netherlands teams, which beat Senegal and Qatar and tied with Ecuador, England, which beat Iran and Wales, and tied with the United States of America, and Morocco, which tied with Croatia and then beat Belgium and Canada, in addition to To the USA team, which beat Iran and tied against England and Wales, and the Croatian team, which tied against Morocco and Belgium and defeated Canada.

Five teams failed to achieve any victory in the group stage, and the matter relates to the Qatar teams in Group A and Canada in Group F, who did not get any points, Wales and Denmark in the third and fourth groups, and Serbia, the competitor in Group VII, and each of them got one point.

Brazil, Morocco, Croatia, Tunisia, the United States of America and the Netherlands are the strongest defense teams in the group stage, conceding only one goal in the three matches, while Costa Rica was the weakest defense in the Qatar World Cup, after veteran goalkeeper Keylor Navas conceded 11 times.

5 names in the top scorers

Five players topped the list of top scorers in the first round of the World Cup in Qatar, as the Englishman Marcus Rashford, the Frenchman Kylian Mbappe, the Dutchman Cody Gakpo, the Spaniard Alvaro Morata, and the Ecuadorian Ener Valencia topped the list with three goals each, while 18 players came in second place. They scored two goals, including Saudi star Salem Al-Dosari, who scored against Argentina and Mexico.

166 yellow cards in the first round

The first round matches in the 2022 World Cup witnessed the emergence of yellow cards strongly, and their number reached 166.

The tally of the Saudi team was the highest with 14 yellow cards, then Serbia with 12 cards, and Uruguay and Ghana with eight yellow cards.

On the other hand, the England players topped the list of fair play in the first round, as they did not get any yellow cards in the first three matches in the first round against Iran, the United States of America and Wales.

Red cards appeared twice for the players, after the dismissal of the Welsh national team player Wayne Hennessy in the Iran match, and the second for Cameroon striker Vincent Abubakar against Brazil, while the South Korean coach Paulo Bento was sent off in the Ghana match.

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