The Netherlands team won a difficult victory at the expense of the Senegalese team, with two clean goals, in the match that brought them together at Al Thumama Stadium in the capital, Doha, in the first round of Group A matches for the group stage of the World Cup, which will be hosted by the State of Qatar from 20 November to 18 December.
The Dutch team`s double against Senegal came through Cody Jakbo and Dave Claassen in the 84.99 minutes of the match, and Senegal`s defeat against Holland was the 77th in the history of African teams` participation in the World Cup that began in 1930.
Cameroon and Nigeria are the most defeated African teams in the history of the World Cup with 12 defeats each, followed by Morocco and Tunisia, who each received 9 defeats in their participation in the World Cup.
As for the Algerian team, it received 7 defeats, and the Egyptian team lost 5, which is the same number of defeats suffered by the teams of Côte d`Ivoire and Ghana in the World Championship.
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South Africa suffered 3 defeats in the World Cup, as did the Congo and Togo teams, and Senegal were equal with them, while Angola suffered a single defeat.
The best achievement in the history of African teams in the World Cup was achieved by Senegal by reaching the quarter-finals of the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, and since that date no African team has achieved a better achievement in the tournament.
As for the match, Davy Claassen`s goal in the minute (98:18) became the second latest goal in the history of the tournament, after the goal that Iranian Mehdi Taremi scored against England in the 102:30 minute in the same edition.
The Dutch defender`s participation is the first in the World Cup after 50 international matches with the Netherlands national team, ranking second after Jose van der Meulen (54 official matches).
For the first time, the Senegalese team stumbled in its opening match in the World Cup, after winning in 2002 against France with a clean goal, and in 2018 against Poland (2-1).
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Cody Jakbo - the player with the most contributors this season in Europe (31 goals in 29 matches) - equaled in his first World Cup match with his headers in the Eredivisie (1 out of 106 matches).
In 2019, Anders Neubert, a Dutch national team goalkeeper, was the second goalkeeper in the Foggia team and was relegated to the Italian third division, and his family advised him to give up football in 2020, but now he is the main goalkeeper of the Mills national team and achieved Klein Chet in his first international match, and he is the tallest player In the championship (203 cm).
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By: Ahmed Sorour