3 records were achieved in the World Cup, which was hosted by Russia and concluded with the French national team winning the tournament after surpassing its Croatian counterpart by four goals to two.
This result in the final is the largest after the 1966 World Cup final between champion England and runner-up Germany, which saw 6 goals scored.
This World Cup scored the largest number of goals in the history of World Cups from fixed balls; As he scored in the Russian World Cup 70 goals through set pieces out of 169 goals, i.e. more than 40% of the goals scored, to achieve the Russian version of the World Cup a new record exceeding what was scored during the World Cup France 1998, which witnessed 62 goals from set pieces.
Thanks to the mouse technique, which was applied for the first time in World Cups, the largest number of penalty kicks in the history of the World Cup was calculated, reaching 29 kicks, of which 22 were scored. The irony is that France striker Griezmann is the first player to be awarded a penalty kick by technology in the tournament, and the last player counted for him and scored the two kicks.
As for the third records recorded by the tournament, they are reverse goals; As the tournament witnessed the scoring of 12 reverse goals, the last of which was Mandzukic’s own goal in the final, breaking the previous record of 6 goals witnessed in the World Cup France 98.
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