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SOME INTERESTING VITAL STATISTICS IN THIS WORLD CUP 2018
GOALS SCORED -169
YELLOW CARDS -219
RED CARDS -4
PASSES COMPLETED – 49647
AVERAGE GOALS PER MATCH- 2.6
OWNGOALS-12
VIEW-3.14BILLION
TOTAL STADIUM ATTENDANCE-3,031746
TEAMS
MOST GOALS BY TEAMS-BELGIUM
MOST GOALS CONCEDED-PANAMA
MOST ATTACKING AND DEFENDING TEAM-CROATIA
PLAYERS
MOST ATTEMPTS-NEYMAR (BRAZIL)- 27 ATTEMPTS
MOST DISTANCE COVERED-JOHN STONES(ENGLAND)-69 KM DISTANCE COVERED
MOST PASSES COMPLETED-SERGIO RAMOS(SPAIN)- 485 PASSES COMPLETED
RANDOM STATS:
- This was the first ever World Cup to see all competing teams score at least two goals, with Panama being the final team to complete the collection (a goal each against England and Tunisia).
- 43% of the goals scored at the 2018 World Cup came from set-piece situations (73 of 169), more than at any other edition of the competition since 1966.
- There were 22 penalties scored and 29 awarded at the 2018 World Cup, the most in any edition of the competition.
- There were nine winning goals scored in the 90th minute or later at the 2018 World Cup (excluding extra-time), more than at any other edition of the tournament.
- Didier Deschamps became the first manager to lead France to the final of two major tournaments (EURO 2016 and World Cup 2018).
- Oscar Tabarez became the fifth manager to take charge of the same country at four different World Cup finals (1990, 2010, 2014 and 2018), after Walter Winterbottom (England), Josef Herberger (Germany), Helmut Schon (Germany) and Lajos Baroti (Hungary).
- Didier Deschamps is the third person to win the World Cup as both a player and a manager, after Brazil’s Mario Zagallo and Germany’s Franz Beckenbauer.
- Argentina’s Lionel Messi is the only player to have delivered an assist in each of the last four World Cup tournaments.