Mexico v Sweden, 27 June 2018

Kick-off: 7.00pm local Mexico v Sweden was Match 44 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Nestor Pitana (Argentina) Assistant Referee 1: Hernan Maidana (Argentina) Assistant Referee 2: Juan Belatti (Argentina) Fourth Official: Andres Cunha (Uruguay) Reserve AR: Mauricio Espinosa (Uruguay) VAR: Mauro Vigliano (Argentina) Despite starting the final round of group games in third position, Sweden finished top of Group F. Mexico also qualified for the knock-out stages due to holders Germany's shock defeat to Korea Republic. Sweden had now reached the last 16 of the World Cup finals on each of the last four occasions that they had qualified for the tournament. Mexico had now reached the last 16 of the World Cup finals on each of the last eight occasions that they had participated in the tournament. This was the first time that Sweden had scored as many as three goals in a game at the World Cup finals since a 4-0 win against Bulgaria in the third-place play-off in 1994. Captain Andreas Granqvist became the first Sweden player to score two or more goals at a World Cup finals since Henrik Larsson scored three in 2002. Edson Álvarez's own goal was the seventh at Russia 2018; now the most at any World Cup finals. Jesus Gallardo's first minute booking was timed at 15 seconds is believed to be the fastest-ever yellow card shown in the World Cup finals.