Belgium v Panama, 18 June 2018

Kick-off: 6.00pm local Belgium v Panama was Match 13 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Janny Sikazwe (Zambia) Assistant Referee 1: Jerson Dos Santos (Angola) Assistant Referee 2: Zakhele Siwela (South Africa) Fourth Official: Ryuji Sato (Japan) Reserve AR: Hiroshi Yamauchi (Japan) VAR: Bastian Dankert (Germany) AVAR 1: Felix Zwayer (Germany) AVAR 2: Sander van Roekel (Netherlands) AVAR 3: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands) This was Panama's first-ever World Cup finals game. A national holiday was declared after they sealed qualification in October 2017. Belgium were now unbeaten in their last ten group games at the World Cup finals and had won all of the last five. Dries Mertens became the first Belgian player to score in consecutive World Cup finals since Marc Wilmots in 1998 and 2002.