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Matias Galarza scored 65 seconds into the crippled for the fastest extremity astatine this year's World Cup and Paraguay held connected for a 1-0 triumph implicit Turkiye connected Friday nighttime aft playing a antheral down for much than fractional the match.
Paraguay was short-handed aft Miguel Almiron was issued a reddish paper precocious successful the archetypal fractional for violating a caller regularisation banning players from covering their rima during a confrontation. But goalkeeper Orlando Gill made respective cardinal saves to sphere the lead.
The triumph assured the United States would triumph Group D and eliminated Turkiye from immoderate accidental of advancing to the knockout circular with its 2nd consecutive loss. Paraguay volition look Australia successful the last lucifer of the radical signifier adjacent Thursday, with 2nd spot successful the radical connected the line.
FIFA World Cup 2026 | Turkiye vs Paraguay Highlights
Paraguay bounced backmost from a 4-1 nonaccomplishment successful the opener against the U.S. squad acknowledgment successful portion to a lineup alteration made by Gustavo Alfaro. Galarza, who plays for Atlanta United of the MLS, was enactment into the starting lineup aft sitting retired the opener and rewarded his manager erstwhile helium sent a left-footed changeable from astir 25 yards into the nett conscionable 1:05 into the game.
Turkiye astir got the equalizer aboriginal successful the archetypal fractional but Mert Muldur's header disconnected a escaped footwear deed the transverse barroom and extremity post.
Players of Turkiye respond astatine the extremity of the World Cup Group D lucifer against Paraguay | Photo Credit: AP
Muldur was successful the mediate of the confrontation successful stoppage clip successful the archetypal fractional that led to Galarza's ejection.
Almiron and Mulder exchanged words pursuing a foul adjacent midfield. Almiron covered his rima portion saying thing to Mulder, who instantly appealed to referee Ivan Barton for punishment.
Barton went to video reappraisal and rapidly ruled that Almiron would beryllium fixed a reddish paper and ejected nether a caller regularisation enactment successful spot for this year’s World Cup.
Turkiye dominated possession for a 2nd consecutive lucifer but erstwhile again it wasn't capable arsenic the Turks followed up the 2-0 nonaccomplishment to Australia with different decision that assures they volition person a abbreviated enactment successful their archetypal World Cup quality successful 24 years.
62 - Türkiye failed to people contempt attempting 62 shots successful their archetypal 2 matches astatine this year's FIFA World Cup, the astir attempts without a extremity successful immoderate two-match span successful the contention connected grounds (since 1966).
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Turkiye qualified for the tourney for the archetypal clip since 2002 but was incapable to repetition the aforesaid benignant of tally that twelvemonth that led to a third-place decorativeness contempt entering the tourney arsenic a favourite to beforehand from the group.
Orlando Gill made a prevention connected a tricky deflection connected a changeable by Merih Demiral aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional and again connected a agelong scope effort from Abdulkerim Bardakci midway done the fractional to sphere the lead. Gill past stopped Can Uzun from successful adjacent precocious successful the fractional and Deniz Gul sent the rebound wide.
Merih Demiral's header precocious successful stoppage clip went wide, ending Turkiye’s past hope.
