Korea Republic v Mexico, 23 June 2018

Kick-off: 6.00pm local Korea Republic v Mexico was Match 28 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia) Assistant Referee 1: Milovan Ristić (Serbia) Assistant Referee 2: Dalibor Djurdjević (Serbia) Fourth Official: John Pitti (Panama) Reserve AR: Gabriel Victoria (Panama) VAR: Daniele Orsato (Italy) With two wins from their first two games, Mexico were now close to reaching the last 16 for the seventh consecutive World Cup finals since 1994. Mexico had now won consecutive games at the World Cup finals for the first time since winning their first two games in 2002. Javier Hernández became the first player to score 50 goals in international games for Mexico. Korea Republic had now lost their last four games at the World Cup finals; their joint-longest losing sequence at the World Cup, also between 1986 and 1990. There had now been 14 penalties awarded at this World Cup finals; one more than in the entire 2014 tournament in Brazil. Excluding shoot-outs, the record for most penalties in at a World Cup finals is 18 (1990, 1998 and 2002).