Saudi Arabia v Egypt, 25 June 2018

Kick-off: 5.00pm local Saudi Arabia v Egypt was Match 34 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Wilmar Roldan (Colombia) Assistant Referee 1: Alexander Guzman (Colombia) Assistant Referee 2: Cristian De la Cruz (Colombia) Fourth Official: Ricardo Montero (Costa Rica) Reserve AR: Hiroshi Yamauchi (Japan) VAR: Artur Dias (Portugal) With the last kick of the game, Salem Al Dawsari's goal secured Saudi Arabia's first win at the World Cup finals since a 1-0 victory against Belgium in Washington in 1994. It ended a run of 12 games at the finals without a win. This was Egypt’s seventh game at the World Cup finals and they remained without a win (lost five); only Honduras have played more times at the World Cup without winning (played nine). This was both nations final group game at the 2018 World Cup finals and both were already unable to qualify for the knock-out stages. At 45 years and 161 days, Essam El-Hadary became the oldest-ever player to appear at a World Cup finals. The previous record holder was fellow goalkeeper Faryd Mondragón who came on as a late substitute in Colombia's 4-1 win against Japan in Cuiaba on 24 June 2014, aged 43 and three days. El-Hadary was older than three of the managers at the 2018 World Cup finals. In this game, Essam El-Hadary also became the second goalkeeper at Russia 2018 to save a penalty on his World Cup finals debut; also Iceland’s Hannes Thór Halldórsson against Argentina. With 30 games still to be played, Saudi Arabia's second penalty in this game, converted by Salman Al Faraj, was the 18th penalty at this World Cup finals to equal the competition record (also 18 in 1990, 1998 and 2002).