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Updated November 21, 2022 astatine 8:53 a.m. EST|Published
November 21, 2022 astatine 7:00 a.m. EST
The World Cup is successful afloat plaything Monday, with 3 games featuring high-profile squads making their debuts successful Qatar. First, star-studded England, a contender to triumph its archetypal satellite rubric since 1966, takes connected Iran in Group B, successful a crippled played against the backdrop of governmental unrest. Then the Netherlands, which is backmost connected the satellite signifier aft failing to suffice successful 2018, meets Senegal successful an intriguing Group A matchup. Later, the United States battles Wales successful a Group B crippled that could person contiguous implications for advancing to the knockout stage. Follow on for unrecorded updates.
Here’s what to know
- Teams representing 7 European nations astatine the World Cup announced Monday that their captains won’t deterioration LGBTQ armbands successful Qatar aft FIFA said players sporting the bands would beryllium disciplined. The captains of England, Wales, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland had intended to deterioration the OneLove rainbow armbands to beforehand diverseness and inclusion.
- Group B is expected to beryllium 1 of the astir competitory groups successful the event, and it volition commencement to shingle retired Monday. England, the favourite to triumph the group, is facing Iran successful a crippled that began astatine 8 a.m. Eastern connected Fox Sports 1. The United States plays Wales astatine 2 p.m. connected Fox. In Group A, the Netherlands plays Senegal astatine 11 a.m. connected Fox. In the first crippled of the tourney Sunday, Ecuador got a caput commencement successful that radical with a 2-0 triumph implicit Qatar.
- The World Cup continues successful Qatar done the last connected Dec. 18. Find the full docket and radical standings here. Here is simply a list of the apical players to ticker during the event. Here are the answers to immoderate often asked questions.
England piles it on, goes up 3-0 connected Raheem Sterling’s volley
England is not messing around. Raheem Sterling’s volley extremity successful the 46th infinitesimal makes it 3-0 implicit an utterly disorganized Iran team.
We’ll person a alternatively astounding 14 minutes of stoppage clip to implicit the archetypal half.
England makes it 2-0 connected Bukayo Saka’s goal
England struck again disconnected a country footwear successful the 43rd infinitesimal erstwhile an unmarked Bukayo Saka corralled a escaped shot successful the container and calmly sent it past Hossein Hosseini.
The officials recovered thing to reappraisal connected the play aft Harry Maguire climbed up to caput the country kick.
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GOAL: Raheem Sterling gives England a 3-0 pb successful first-half stoppage time.
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GOAL: Bukayo Saka, different of England’s young players, makes it 2-0 with a extremity successful the 43rd minute.
Jude Bellingham gives England a 1-0 pb with header
Jude Bellingham got England connected the scoreboard successful the 35th minute, heading a transverse from Luke Shaw past backup Iran goalkeeper Hossein Hosseini.
Bellingham is conscionable 19 years old. Last year, helium acceptable the grounds for the youngest subordinate to instrumentality portion successful the European Championships astatine 17 years 349 days (the grounds was breached days aboriginal by Poland’s Kacper Kozłowski).
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GOAL: England takes a 1-0 pb disconnected the ft of teen Jude Bellingham, who scored successful the 35th minute.
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England came oh-so-close to getting connected the scoreboard successful the 32nd minute, but Harry Maguire’s header disconnected a country footwear bounded disconnected the post. We’re inactive scoreless.
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The archetypal yellowish paper of the crippled went to Iran’s Alireza Jahanbakhsh aft helium stomped connected Luke Shaw’s ft successful the 25th minute.
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The governmental unrest that began successful Iran pursuing the decease of Mahsa Amini successful September resonated with fans and with somber players who did not sing the nationalist anthem earlier the crippled against England.
A fewer minutes earlier the #ENGIRN crippled it’s intolerable to flight the concern successful #Iran. An Iranian pistillate protesting successful the crowd. She didn’t privation to amusement her look oregon name. But said we could stock this picture. “Please archer our story.” Another Iranian instrumentality tells me. #Qatar2022 pic.twitter.com/FzxLWJJBRO
— shaimaa khalil BBC (@Shaimaakhalil) November 21, 2022Reporter covering breaking news
Starting this year, each squad volition beryllium allowed 1 head-injury substitution per game. It volition not number against each team’s 5 allowed subs. Should immoderate squad marque a head-injury substitution, the opposing squad volition beryllium awarded an other substitution.
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Iran goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand stayed down connected the transportation for a important magnitude of clip aft colliding with teammate Majid Hosseini portion trying to wide an England cross. He remained successful the crippled aft a several-minute stoppage but went down again aft play resumed. Hossein Hosseini replaced him successful goal.
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Raphael Claus of Brazil is the referee for England-Iran. He handed retired five reddish cards during a September lucifer betwixt Flamengo and Fluminense successful the Brazilian pro league. So acold helium has kept the cards successful his pouch successful his archetypal World Cup match.
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Fans successful Qatar seemingly are struggling to participate the stadium for the England-Iran match, which is underway. Photos of bare seats person been posted connected Twitter.
I’m successful Qatar trying to get into the England Iran match. I on with astir 500 different radical cannot get successful due to the fact that our tickets person vanished from the fifa app. Won’t judge email confirmation and nary 1 is consenting to help. #FIFAWorldCup pic.twitter.com/im8iIyxdOF
— Ali Azarian (@AlianoStaliano) November 21, 2022Reporter covering sports breaking news, with an accent connected authorities and nationalist stories
England’s players concisely took a genu earlier the commencement of the game, an anti-racism motion players adopted aft the decease of George Floyd successful 2020.
After kneeling that year’s Premier League season, it was determined this twelvemonth to reserve the motion for circumstantial times passim the play alternatively than astatine each match.
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