Although the Belgian national team failed to reach the World Cup final in Russia by losing to France with a clean goal, it compensated for its loss by achieving its best position in the history of its participation in World Cups by defeating the England team with two clean goals to clinch third place.
Hazard's generation and his comrades surpassed the 1986 generation, which achieved fourth place at the time in the World Cup in Mexico, to break the stubbornness of this position that had previously eluded it.
The Belgian squad is considered the 11th European team that occupies the third place in the history of the tournament in the 11th meeting that brings together two European teams for the third and fourth places.
The Belgian national team scored a record in this tournament after Thomas Meunier scored the first goal against the England national team, becoming the tenth player to score a goal for Belgium in the current finals, which is a record in the history of the tournament, in partnership with the French national team (10 players in the 1982 World Cup). ), and the Italian national team (10 players in the 2006 World Cup).
The Belgian national team became the strongest attack in the tournament with 16 goals, and the third strongest line of defense in the tournament with 5 goals conceded in 7 matches, while goalkeeper Courtois kept a clean goal for the third match in the World Cup.
The irony is that the Belgian national team did not draw in its last two participations in the World Cup, as it managed to win 10 matches and lose only two matches.
The Belgian national team secured the knot for the English after they won them in two matches in the group stage with a clean goal, and mainly with two clean goals in the third and fourth place match.
This is the first time that two teams meet in two matches, in one World Cup, since the Brazilian and Turkish teams met twice, in the 2002 World Cup.
And the leader of the Red Devils, Hazard, made his mark in the tournament after he was the most distinguished player by scoring three goals and assisting two goals, and he is considered the most player to play on the man of the match equally with Croatian captain Modric.
Since 1966, no player has contributed to scoring goals for the Belgium national team, in the World Cup finals, more than Eden Hazard, with his contribution to 7 goals in the two world championships (scoring 3 goals and making 4), and he shares this number with Jan Collemans (scoring 3 and making 4 also), and a star contributed Chelsea scored 25 goals in the last 25 matches with the national team.
The gains of the Belgium national team’s participation in the Russian World Cup is its best participation in the history of the World Cups by achieving the third in the world and obtaining the financial prize provided by FIFA, estimated at 20.28 million euros, and it occupied the forefront of the strongest attack in the World Cup, as well as the third strongest defense, as it broke the center knot. The fourth, and became the 11th European team to obtain this position, and achieved 6 victories against one loss, and documented the knot of the English team by defeating it twice, and scored its goals with 10 different players, which is the highest number in the history of World Cups.
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Naeem Tamim Al-Hakim (Jeddah) @naeemtamimimalhac
