FIFA World Cup recap: Ismael Saibari lifts Morocco to thrilling win over Netherlands

Ismael Saibari scored the decisive goal in a penalty shootout, and Morocco sent the Netherlands to its earliest World Cup exit, eliminating the Dutch 3-2 after a 1-1 draw on Monday night.

With the shootout tied at 2-2 after four rounds, Morocco goalkeeper Yassine Bounou made a strong save of Crysencio Summerville’s attempt, batting it away with his left hand. Saibari then sent the winner into the low left corner as goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen went the other direction. The midfielder tore off his shirt and screamed with joy as he was mobbed by teammates.

The Netherlands had reached at least the Round of 16 in 11 previous World Cups, including a quarterfinal appearance four years ago in Qatar, when Morocco made a breakthrough run to the semifinals. In this year’s expanded tournament, 32 teams reached the knockout stage for the first time.

Morocco moves on to face Canada in the Round of 16 on Saturday in Houston.

In the second round of the shootout with Morocco trailing 1-0, Verbruggen appeared to have stopped an attempt by Soufiane Rahimi, but the goalkeeper couldn’t secure the ball and deflected it over the line with the back of his leg.

Cody Gakpo scored in the 72nd minute for Netherlands. After the goal, which was assisted by Summerville, the Dutch bench ran onto the field to embrace the 27-year-old Gakpo, who broke down in tears. Gakpo and his partner, Noa van der Bij, recently announced that they lost their unborn child.

Morocco’s Issa Diop tied it in the 91st minute. Chemsdine Talbi sent a looping cross into the box from about 28 yards out on the left side and connected with Diop for a clean header that Verbruggen had no chance to stop.

Neither team had a strong scoring opportunity in 30 minutes of extra time at Estadio BBVA.

It was the second game of the tournament to conclude with a shootout. Paraguay beat Germany on penalties earlier Monday.

The teams entered with the highest combined ranking of any Round of 32 match. Morocco was sixth in the world and the Netherlands was seventh.

Wilcox writes for the Associated Press.

Netherlands 1, Morocco 1 — Extra time

A huge save by Netherlands goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen on a point-blank shot by Morocco’s Soufiane Rahimi in the 97th minute was the biggest moment in the first half of extra time.

Morocco controlled the ball for most of the first half of extra time. The Netherlands may be just trying to hold on for a penalty-kicks shootout.

Netherlands 1, Morocco 1 — End of regulation

Issa Diop’s first international goal for Morocco in the 91st minute has forced extra time in what has been an exciting and evenly matched game so far.

Cody Gakpo scored for the Netherlands in the 72nd minute.

Morocco was the better team in the second half, but it couldn’t fully capitalize on scoring chances. It has controlled the ball 65% of the match and has four shots on goal compared to the Netherlands’ two.

Netherlands 1, Morocco 1 — 91st minute

Morocco’s Issa Diop scored on a spectacular header off a deep cross from well outside the box from Chemsdine Talbi to tie the score.

Netherlands 1, Morocco 0 — 72nd minute

Cody Gakpo scored a spectacular goal for the Netherlands, scoring past Morocco goalkeeper Yassine Bounou after taking the ball following a rush into the box by teammate Crysencio Summerville.

Gakpo’s emotional reaction to scoring comes days after he and his partner announced that their unborn child died during pregnancy.

The goal came about a minute after the hydration break after Morocco dictating play for the first 25 minutes of the second half.

Netherlands 0, Morocco 0 — 70th minute

Morocco has controlled the ball for 79% of the second half and has the majority of chances heading into the second-half hydration break. It nearly

Morocco has eight shots, including three on goal, compared to the Netherlands’ five shots, with one on goal. Achraf Hakimi had two prime scoring opportunities for Morocco, sending shots off the crossbar and post in the first 25 minutes of the half.

Netherlands 0, Morocco 0 — 54th minute

Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi sent a shot off the crossbar in the 52nd minute after taking a pass and sprinting past the Dutch defense for the best scoring chance of the game so far.

Netherlands 0, Morocco 0 — Halftime

Both teams had scoring chances in the final minutes of the second half, but neither team could capitalize.

Morocco had the majority of chances in stoppage time, with Ismael Saibari just missing out on a feed pass that would have allowed him a clear shot.

Two minutes later, Azzedine Ounahi overshot the game. Then, Saibari, much to his disbelief, narrowly missed on a sprinting one-timer attempt off a free kick by Achraf Hakimi.

Morocco ended up having the majority of quality scoring chances in the opening half, with four shots, including two on goal. The Netherlands had three shots, with one on goal.

Possession time was split 50-50 for both teams in a very physical first half that somehow featured no yellow cards.

Netherlands 0, Morocco 0 — 39th minute

On the second of back-to-back corner kicks, Netherlands defender Jan Paul van Hecke sustained a cut to his head after making contact with the cleats of a Morocco player in the Morocco box. Van Hecke was bleeding before being attended to by trainers.

So far, the teams have played an evenly matched and physical game.

Netherlands have controlled the ball for 54% of the match, but Morocco has three shots, including two on goal. The Netherlands is still looking for its first shot on goal.

Netherlands 0, Morocco 0 — 12th minute

The early minutes of Netherlands-Morocco has been marked by fast-paced, physical play that has seen some tempers flare between players.

The Netherlands has controlled the ball slightly more, but Morocco has so far thwarted the Dutch from doing anything meaningful in the box.

Morocco standout Ismael Saibari has been creating some challenges for the Netherlands defense, but so far he has been held in check.

This could be one of the best matches of the round of 32. Morocco, a semifinalist four years ago, is ranked sixth in the world by FIFA, one spot ahead of the Netherlands. The Netherlands hasn’t lost a first-round knockout game since 2006.

Morocco comes into the game after an undefeated run in group play, finishing second in its group behind Brazil. The Netherlands, led by Brian Brobbey’s three goals, won its group with two wins and a draw.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Jose Canale scored on the first sudden death penalty kick, Orlando Gill made two key saves in the shootout, and Paraguay upset Germany 4-3 on penalties Monday to earn the biggest upset of the 2026 World Cup so far.

The round of 16 match ended 1-1 after extra time. Paraguay had gone in front when Julio Enciso scored on a header late in the first half. Kai Havertz equalized in the 52nd minute for four-time champion Germany.

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Paraguay will next face the winner of Tuesday’s match between France and Sweden on July 4 in the round of 16 in Philadelphia. A win in that match would land them back in Foxborough for a quarterfinal match on July 9.

Germany had won six of seven penalty shootouts in major tournaments, including six straight since losing to Czechoslovakia in the 1976 European Championship final.

In the only previous World Cup match between the teams, Germany beat Paraguay 1-0 in the round of 16 at the 2002 tournament. Nearly a quarter-century later, Paraguay has its revenge.

Paraguay had appeared in five previous knockout games but failed to score in each. It advanced only once in those previous occasions, winning on penalty kicks against Japan in the round of 16 at the 2010 tournament in South Africa. It fell that year to eventual champion Spain in the quarterfinals.

Monday was Germany’s first knockout game since the 2014 final in Brazil when the Germans beat Argentina 1-0 to capture their fourth World Cup title.

On Monday, Germany appeared to take a 2-1 lead in the 102nd minute when Jonathan Tah headed in a corner kick by Nathaniel Brown that was just above the reach of Gill. But a video review ruled that Waldemar Anton has pushed Gill to the ground before the shot and the goal was disallowed.

Hightower writes for the Associated Press.

Paraguay 1, Germany 1 (Paraguay advances on penalty kicks, 4-3) — Final

Jose Canale scored the decisive goal in a penalty kicks shootout to send Paraguay to the round of 16 at the World Cup in a stunning victory over much-favored Germany. It marked the first time Germany ever lost in a World Cup shootout.

Paraguay, the third-place team from Group D, will play the winner of France-Sweden.

Penalty kicks recap:

— Orlando Gill stopped a shot by Kai Havertz with a diving save on Germany’s first penalty kick.

— Mauricio scored on Paraguay’s first penalty kick past Manuel Neuer.

— Josh Kimmich scored for Germany.

— Gustavo Gomez scored for Paraguay.

— Jamal Musiala scored for Germany.

— Matias Galarza scored for Paraguay.

—Germany’s Nick Woltemade is stopped by Paraguay’s Orlando Gill.

— Paraguay’s Antonio Sanabria misses the goal, kicking it wide left.

— Nadiem Amiri scores for Germany.

— Paraguay’s Fabian Balbuena’s shot is stopped by Germany’s Manuel Neuer.

— Germany’s Joanthan Tah shoots the ball over the goal.

— Paraguay’s Jose Canale scores to defeat Germany.

Paraguay 1, Germany 1 — End of stoppage time

Despite dominating stoppage time and nearly scoring off a pair of corner kicks, Germany was unable to capitalize and the game is heading to a penalty-kick shootout.

After 120 minutes, penalty kicks will determine who advances to the round of 16.

Germany has never lost in four penalty-kick shootouts at the World Cup.

Paraguay 1, Germany 1 — 119th minute

Paraguay goalkeeper Orlando Gill made a save on a header by Nick Woltemade off a corner kick to keep the game tied late into extra time.

A minute later, a free kick by Germany just outside the corner of the box hit the side of the Paraguay goal.

Paraguay 1, Germany 1 — 105th minute

An apparent goal by Germany’s Jonathan Tah on a header off a corner kick was disallowed after a video review determined Paraguay goalkeeper Orlando Gill was interfered with on the play.

A foul was called on Germany’s Waldemar Anton for preventing Gill from being able to make a save.

Paraguay 1, Germany 1 — End of second half

Despite putting near-constant pressure on the Paraguay goal, Germany was unable to take the lead, forcing the game into extra time.

Germany’s best chance of scoring in stoppage time came in the 92nd minute when Jonathan Tah headed a ball off a corner kick, but Paraguay’s Orlando Gill was in position to make the save.

Germany is 7-4 in World Cup extra time. Paraguay is 1-1 all-time in extra time at the tournament.

Paraguay 1, Germany 1 — 80th minute

Like it has most of the game, Germany continues to put pressure on the Paraguay box, but quality scoring chances have been limited. Germany has just two shots on goal despite controlling the ball 76% of the time.

In the 77th minute, Kai Havertz nearly scored his second goal of the match on a header off a well-placed feed from Florian Wirtz on a deep cross outside the box.

A free kick outside the box in the 80th minute by Wirtz was blocked. Paraguay has done a good job of disrupting Germany’s small-ball efforts to work the ball into the box, disrupting passing lanes and forcing it to rely mostly on long crosses and passes.

Germany has 11 shots, including two on goal. It hasn’t been able to generate any quality scoring chances on nine corner kicks. Four of Paraguay’s six shots have been on goal.

Paraguay 1, Germany 1 — 54th minute

Kai Havertz got inside coverage and headed the ball past Paraguay goalkeeper Orlando Gill on a feed into the box from Florian Wirtz to tie the score.

Germany has continued to dominate possession in the second half, but has struggled to put together scoring opportunities until Havertz’s goal. It was Havertz’s third goal of this World Cup.

Germany has controlled the ball for 78 percent of the match and has eight shots. It has 19 touches in the opponent box compared to Paraguay’s six.

Paraguay 1, Germany 0 — Halftime

Paraguay’s Julio Enciso scored on a header off a perfect cross into the box from Matias Galarza in a stunning development during the 42nd minute.

Germany had dominated possession (79%) and had the majority of chances up until a Paraguay got a corner kick ahead of the goal.

Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer batted away the corner kick, but Paraguay collected the ball and reset, leading to its first-ever World Cup knockout-round goal.

Despite having six corner kicks in the first half and keeping most of the play centered around the Paraguay box, Germany has one shot on goal in five attempts. Paraguay has three shots, including two on goal.

The last time Germany trailed at halftime in a World Cup knockout match was during a loss to Croatia in 1998.

Germany 0, Paraguay 0 — 28th minute

Germany has controlled the ball for 83% of the match, but it’s still looking for its first shot despite some decent touches in the Paraguay box.

Paraguay is managing to limit Germany’s chances and is disrupting feeds and crosses in and around the box but hasn’t had any real scoring opportunities since the opening minutes.

Germany 0, Paraguay 0 — 10th minute

Germany has controlled the ball for most of the first 10 minutes, keeping play mostly confined to the Paraguay side of the pitch. Paraguay, however, had the best scoring chance so far.

Paraguay couldn’t capitalize off a corner kick in the second minute when Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer stopped a left-footed shot by Junior Alonso in the six-yard box.

Despite scoring 10 goals in group play, Germany didn’t look particularly impressive in its first three games. The four-time champions, ranked No. 12 in the world, are coming off a loss to Ecuador.

Deniz Undav, with three goals, and Kai Havertz, with two, are the only Germans who have scored more than once.

No. 37 Paraguay gutted out a scoreless draw with Australia in its final game to finish third in Group D and squeeze into the round of 32. It has just two goals in the tournament, but it is coming off back-to-back shutouts.

HOUSTON — Gabriel Martinelli scored late injury time to give Brazil a 2-1 win over Japan in the round of 32 at the World Cup on Monday.

Martinelli’s winning goal came in the sixth minute of injury time.

Casemiro earlier equalized on a header in the 56th minute off an assist from Gabriel Magalhães after just missing another chance two minutes earlier. The shot sailed just out of reach of the outstretched hand of Japan goalkeeper Zion Suzuki and into the net.

Kaishu Sano stole a misplaced pass at midfield and took it down the field before a right-footed shot from above the half circle to put Japan ahead in the 29th minute.

Vinícius Júnior, who has scored four goals in this year’s tournament, had a chance to put Brazil on top in the 58th minute but his shot from the left box was deflected by Suzuki and went off the far post.

Casemiro left in the first minute of second-half stoppage time with what appeared to be a leg injury.

Brazil goes on to play the winner of the Norway-Ivory Coast match, which will be played Tuesday in Arlington, Tex., in a round of 16 game on Sunday in East Rutherford, N.J.

Brazil 2, Japan 1, 90th minute (+5)

Brazil finally broke through, getting a goal from Gabriel Martinelli in added time to pull ahead of Japan in Houston and move to the verge of the round of 16.

Brazil 1, Japan 1, 84th minute

The teams have remained tied deep into the second half, though Brazil has been threatening more frequently while Japan appears to be falling back on defense.

Japan 1, Brazil 1, 56th minute

Casemiro has drawn Brazil even early in the second half in Houston. Brazil came out pressuring for an equalizer, just missing out on one minutes earlier, before Casemiro broke through.

Japan 1, Brazil 0, halftime

We’ve reached halftime in Houston as Kaishu Sano 29th-minute goal has stood up to this point for Japan. A reminder that Japan has not won a World Cup knockout-stage game in four tries, and Brazil has not lost its first knockout-stage game since 1990.

Japan 1, Brazil 0, 29th minute

Japan struck first against Brazil in Houston when Kaishu Sano took advantage of a midfield giveway by Brazil.

Brazil 0, Japan 0, 24th minute

No scoring as of yet in Houston but Japan has already received a yellow card after Kaishu Sano challenged Vinícius Júnior in the 12th minute. Brazil’s Casemiro received a yellow card two minutes later.

Brazil won Group C, posting consecutive 3-0 wins over Haiti and Scotland to close out the first round and run goalkeeper Alisson Becker’s shutout streak to 249 minutes. Vinícius Júnior, with four goals, and Matheus Cunha, with three, have accounted for all of Brazil’s scoring. Brazil hasn’t been eliminated in the first knockout stage of a World Cup since 1990. Japan has received goals from five players in an unbeaten run through Group F, where it finished second to the Netherlands. Japan has not won a World Cup knockout-round game in four tries.

SEATTLE — Growing up the son of an NFL wide receiver, Alex Freeman said he felt a lot of pressure to play the American version of football, not the one the rest of the world plays.

“I always got asked if football was the path,” he said last summer. “But I always had a secret love for soccer.”

And he had to keep it a secret because he wasn’t sure his father Antonio, a Super Bowl winner with the Green Bay Packers, would understand.

SEATTLE — If a pregnant Nigerian woman had been allowed to board a plane 25 years ago, the U.S. team’s path through this summer’s World Cup may have unfolded much differently. Instead, a gate agent turned her away, insisting it wasn’t safe for her to fly from New York to London.

So Florence Balogun returned to Brooklyn, where she had been visiting relatives, and waited for her second son to be born. And when Folarin arrived a few weeks later, entering the world just hours before Independence Day dawned, he did so as an American citizen.

It was that quirk of fate that allowed Balogun, who lived just two months in the U.S., to represent the country on soccer’s biggest stage.

VANCOUVER, Canada — When the first men’s World Cup game played in Canada kicked off last week, Anthony Totera sat in the stands and wept.

“It was a dream come true,” said Totera, who has spent most of his 57 years on earth promoting Canadian soccer. “I can’t describe the emotions. It was something surreal.”

If the 1994 World Cup, the first held in the U.S., forever altered the direction of American soccer, this summer’s tournament, which Canada is sharing with the U.S. and Mexico, has the potential to do the same for that country.

SEATTLE — Cristian Roldan and Haji Wright grew up less than three years and 30 miles apart, Roldan in Pico Rivera and Wright in Culver City. The odds that they would go on to become teammates on not one, but two, U.S. World Cup teams seem astronomical.

Yet despite starting at the same time and place and arriving together at the same destination, the two players followed completely different paths to get there.

Wright joined the Galaxy’s academy at 14 and signed with Schalke of the top tier German Bundesliga days after his 18th birthday. Roldan was still playing for El Rancho, when he was 17, making him the only member of the U.S. World Cup team to play four years at a public high school.

SEATTLE — Jaysen Dickinson flew to Seattle from Vermont to cross an item off his lengthy bucket list.

“To see the World Cup and the U.S. play in the World Cup,” he said.

Kim Fletcher and her 17-year-old son Kelan caught a 5 a.m. flight from Sacramento last week for the same reason.

“It’s a must-do right now,” she said.

They weren’t alone. Tens of thousands of people poured into Seattle on Friday morning for the U.S. team’s group-stage game with Australia, turning the Emerald City into a sea of red, white and blue. Some had tickets, most did not.

Playing in goal for the U.S. men’s national soccer team is a little like playing right field for the Yankees. You’re following a long line of great players, making the comparisons — and the high expectations — unavoidable.

Matt Freese is the latest to be thrown into that crucible. But he considers that pressure to be a privilege, not a problem.

“I wouldn’t say it’s intimidating, I would say it’s inspiring,” he said before the U.S. training session Tuesday morning in Irvine. “It’s a long line of goalkeepers that I’ve looked up to for my whole life — and there were some before my life as well.”

“Do you have an extra ticket?” a man shouted outside SoFi Stadium last Thursday.

The World Cup has been drawing fans from around the globe. But for many, getting a seat in the stadium has come at a steep price.

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Some were lucky enough to nab $400 to $500 tickets through official World Cup lotteries, others paid thousands of dollars to catch the action IRL. Tickets for the upcoming USA versus Turkey match were selling for more than $1,400 on resale sites.

The demand has been so high that authorities have been warning fans about how to avoid ticket scams.

As crowds flocked into the stadium, we asked attendees about how much they paid to get into the most-watched sporting event in the world. Here’s what they shared.

In many ways, the most ambitious World Cup in history — which kicked off Thursday in Mexico City — has inspired more angst than anticipation, more fear than fervor.

The competition, returning to North America for the first time in more than three decades, has expanded to 48 teams and 104 matches, to be played over 39 days in 16 cities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada. The complex planning was eight years in the making.

Yet even before the competition opened with Mexico facing South Africa at the iconic Estadio Azteca, it has been marred by a number of controversies that threaten to overshadow the soccer and cloud the tournament’s legacy.

Béla Guttmann may be the most consequential soccer coach you’ve never heard of. But if it weren’t for Guttmann, you may never have heard of Pelé.

And Brazil may never have become the greatest soccer-playing country on Earth.

That’s because Guttmann changed the shape of modern Brazilian soccer — and changed the sport forever — when he imported the revolutionary 4-2-4 system from Hungary to Sao Paulo in 1957. A year later, Brazil won the first of five World Cups and the joga bonito was born.

Imagine it. A neophyte coach, leading a team for the first time at any competitive level, and it being a high-profile assignment on the biggest of big stages.

A self-assured broadcaster, critical and competitive, having his bluff called, being invited to not just talk about it, but to be about it: Walk the walk, why don’t you?

A former player — scorer, shooter — being challenged to step up and right a listing ship while navigating politics and the push and pull of history and high hopes.

A bowl of lemons sits on a table in the conference room Mauricio Pochettino has turned into an office at the U.S. men’s soccer team’s beachfront resort in south Orange County. The citrus fruit, the coach believes, has the spiritual ability to absorb negative energy. On the corner of another table, the flame from a candle flickers.

“I like candles,” says Pochettino, who believes they release therapeutic fragrances and create a calming environment.

But it is the massive, blood-red mural covering the entire south side of the room that truly reveals what Pochettino believes. In the center of the wall, just behind the coach’s desk, white block letters spell out “Why Not” above a script “U.S.,” which, despite the periods, is meant to be read as “us.”

Sometimes it takes a visitor or six million to remind folks of treasures in their own backyard.

How else to explain the fascination of World Cup fans from 47 other countries expressing unabashed delight on social media for destinations and products woven deeply into American life but hardly considered cutting-edge: ranch dressing, Waffle House, Boston Lager on tap, Texas barbecue, ubiquitous supermarkets — the list goes on.

Meanwhile, the allure is reciprocal. Americans are captivated by the dizzying displays of group fervor, zany behavior and national pride that accompany nearly every match at each of the 16 venues in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Remember when we were sure the World Cup would suffer from all the issues that had everyone seeing red before the first ball was kicked?

And remember when we were certain soccer could never catch on in this country?

Despite controversies over visas and ticket prices and transportation, and in spite of consternation over expansion and new rules, the game has, as usual, proved too good to fail.

When FIFA expanded the World Cup field from 32 to 48 teams for this summer’s tournament, the gnashing of teeth and clutching of pearls was as predictable as it was loud. The field would be watered down, the traditionalists protested. The group stage would be a series of blowouts, the sharks would devour the minnows.

In fact, none of that happened.

What we got instead was plucky Cape Verde playing No. 3 Spain to a draw and becoming the smallest nation to reach the elimination rounds. We got Austria advancing on a goal six minutes into stoppage time — eliminating unbeaten Iran, which deserved better — and Canada, Egypt and the Democratic Republic of Congo all winning World Cup games for the first time.

Group play is over and it’s knockout time at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

The round of 32 is underway, with Canada, Brazil, Paraguay and Morocco winning their respective matches and moving on to the round of 16.

Here’s everything you need to know about World Cup knockout stage matches being played Tuesday and Wednesday across the U.S., Mexico and Canada (all times Pacific).

The first 18 days of the 2026 FIFA World Cup offered plenty of memorable moments.

Check out The Times’ daily recaps ahead of Monday’s three-game slate:

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