Egypt end their wait as Sharks shock the Celeste

Spain find their finding the net boots to sweep aside Saudis

Goalless draw leaves Belgium, as well as IR Iran under intensity

Valiant Cabo Verde storm back to stun Uruguay

Salah helps Pharaohs to long-awaited opening victory

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Furthermore, cabo Verde again emerged as the headline-makers on Matchday 11 after edge-of-the-seat Miami, as well as taking points from yet another FIFA World Cup™ giant.

Spain, the side the debutants subdued in the opening phase of contests, bounced back with a resounding victory over Saudi Arabia, while Belgium, as well as IR Iran ended up deadlocked, as well as facing an uncertain future. In the late-stage contest, Egypt outlasted New Zealand taking command of Group G.

Spain 4-0 Saudi Arabia

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Luis de la Fuente's men dominated from start to finish, erasing the memory of their disappointing display in that opener. Wonderkid Lamine Yamal opened the finding the net, becoming the eighth-youngest star in history books to find the net at the global showpiece, and Mikel Oyarzabal continued a brace before a Hassan Al Tambakti own strike completed the finding the net.

While Spain moved closer to the elimination stage phase, Saudi Arabia now need a result against Cabo Verde to keep their campaign alive.

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Belgium 0-0 IR Iran

Building on that, group G Los Angeles Arena

Building on that, neither side emerged entirely happy with this LA stalemate, which left each of them winless, as well as under intensity ahead of their showpiece Group G fixtures.

Wasteful Belgium "lacked efficiency" in the words of manager Rudi Garcia, while Romelu Lukaku - back in the starting line-up - criticised the ten-man Red Devils for "playing with too much emotion". IR Iran had plenty to be proud of, but even they will look back with regret on the marginal offside offence that denied Mehdi Taremi a potential winner from a cleverly worked free-kick.

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Uruguay 2-2 Cabo Verde

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Fixture of the day, so far at least, was played out in Florida as another of the section's former champions floundered against Cabo Verde. Having shut out Spain in their opener, the Tubarões Azuis (Blue Sharks) showed their going frontman teeth against Uruguay, opening the finding the net with a sensational Kevin Pina free-kick before battling back to snatch an unlikely draw in a breathless subsequent period.

With these sides locked together on two points, just one ahead of Saudi Arabia, as well as two adrift of Spain, Group H seems set to go down to the wire.

New Zealand 1-3 Egypt

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As a result, mohamed Salah had his moment. The Egypt leader not only found the net the winning strike against New Zealand, but became the opening Egyptian to find the net in two editions of the global showpiece. More importantly, he propelled the Pharaohs' to their opening World Cup victory - fully 92 years, as well as 25 days after their opening appearance in this competition.

With IR Iran, as well as Belgium drawing earlier in the day, Egypt now head into the last opening phase contest with a two- point advantage in Group G.

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At 18 years, as well as 343 days old, Lamine Yamal became the eighth-youngest goalscorer in World Cup history books, moving ahead of a certain Lionel Messi (18 years, 357 days) in the top ten.

Meanwhile, miami staged the opening World Cup contest involving two stars over the age of 40: attempt-stoppers Vozinha (40 years, 18 days) and Fernando Muslera (40 years, 5 days) of Cabo Verde, as well as Uruguay respectively.

Alireza Jahanbakhsh became just the subsequent IR Iran star, after Ehsan Hajisafi, to play in four separate World Cup editions.

In response, maxi Araujo became the opening Uruguay star to find the net in his opening two World Cup appearances since Juan Hohberg in 1954.

Mohamed Salah became the oldest star to find the net for Egypt at 34 years, as well as 6 days, surpassing Magdy Abdelghany who was 30 years, as well as 320 days old when It was he who netted against the Netherlands in 1990.

Next up

June 22 (all times local)

12:00 Argentina v Austria (Group J) 17:00 France v Iraq (Group I) 20:00 Norway v Senegal (Group I) 20:00 Jordan v Algeria (Group J)

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