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Breaking: Lewandowski scores World Cup’s landmark goal!

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• Poland’s Robert Lewandowski has scored the 2,600th goal in FIFA World Cup history.

 • Robert Lewandowski has become the oldest goalscorer for Poland in the FIFA World Cup at the age of 34 years and 97 days, surpassing Grzegorz Lato (32 years and 75 days).

 • Poland have won every one of their four international matches against Saudi Arabia.

• Poland have won seven of their last nine international matches against AFC nations.

 • Poland have kept a clean sheet in three successive FIFA World Cup matches for the second time in their history. The first time was between 1974 and 1978.

 • The 2-0 win represents Poland’s biggest victory in a World Cup match since a 3-1 triumph against the USA in 2002.

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• Saudi Arabia have now lost their last nine FIFA World Cup matches against European opponents.

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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