61. Since qualifying for the World Cup, Saudi Arabia have fired two coaches: Bert van Marwijk and Edgardo Bauza.
62. Russia’s coach, Stanislav Cherchesov, played in the USA 1994 6-1 victory against Cameroon. In that match, Oleg Salenko scored five goals, a record in a World Cup game.
63. Only Brazil (21) have played more World Cups than Germany (19), this being their 17th consecutive.
64. Since winning the title in 1966, England have reached the semi-finals on only one occasion (1990), and have been the first in their group in only one of their last five tournaments (2006).
65. Scotland haven’t qualified for the World Cup.
66. None of the last 14 Spain matches in the World Cup ended in a draw (10W 4L).
67. Belgium have qualified for the 13th time in the World Cup, being the European country with the most participations outside the top 5 (Germany, Italy, Spain, England, France).
68. Serbia haven’t passed the group stage in their last two World Cups (2006, 2010), losing five of their last six games in that phase; with only one victory, against Germany in 2010 (1-0).
69. Since reaching the final in 1958 as the home team, Sweden have beaten the second round on only one occasion: in the USA, 1994, when they finished third.
70. It will be the second big competition for Vladimir Petković as coach of Switzerland, after having remained undefeated at EURO 2016 (1W 3D, eliminated by penalties).
71. Poland has qualified for their eighth World Cup, their first since 2006.
72. Portugal have lost one of their last nine group stage games (0-4 vs Germany in 2014), winning five and drawing three since.
73. There have been five red cards in Croatia’s last four World Cup games (three for Croatia, two for their opposition).
74. Denmark have qualified from the group stage in three of their last four World Cups, but have never gone beyond the quarter finals, which they only reached once in 1998.
75. Gylfi Sigurdsson was the top scorer (4) and played most games (10, equal to Birkir Saevarsson and Ragnar Sigurdsson) for Iceland in qualifying.
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