Today, in the next match of the 2022 World Cup, the Spanish team beat Costa Rica with a score of 7:0. As the statistics of this match showed, the Spanish national team set a new record for possession of the ball in World Cup matches.
In the mentioned match with Costa Rica, the percentage of the time when the Spaniards had the ball was 81.7%. And this is now the best result in the history of the world championships. Prior to this, the ball possession record belonged to the Argentina national team, which in the match with Greece at the 2010 World Cup reached 80.3% of playing time.