The second full day of 2026 FIFA World Cup motion featured a bit of German deja vu, an exhilarating slugfest and a recreation of inches.
We break all of it down under in our takeaways from Day 4 of the World Cup.
Germany debuted with a well-known scoreline
Germany is without doubt one of the winningest groups in World Cup historical past with 4 separate titles to its title, but it surely’s had a reasonably poor run of type in current tournaments: It crashed out within the group stage of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. The final time it gained a World Cup knockout recreation was when it beat Argentina to elevate the trophy in 2014.
Its most memorable World Cup knockout recreation win, although, got here within the match earlier than that, when it beat host nation Brazil 7-1 within the semifinals. That scoreline was Germany’s calling card and saving grace all through all its tough years: Irrespective of how poor it was within the second, it was nonetheless the workforce that introduced the hammer down on Brazil on house soil.
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