Turkey and United States meet at the World Cup for the very first time.

Turkey's only World Cup meeting with North & Central American opposition was a 1–1 draw with Costa Rica in 2002.

United States have faced European opposition 24 times at the World Cup — won just three (W3 D7 L14).

Arda Güler is the youngest player ever to score for Turkey at a World Cup, aged 21 years, 120 days.

At 97:50, Kaan Ayhan has scored the second-latest winning goal in a World Cup after Iran’s Roozbeh Cheshmi vs. Wales in 2022 (97:56).

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Turkey beat United States 3–2 — their first World Cup win since 2002.

This is the first time (in 7 attempts) Turkey have come from behind to avoid defeat in a World Cup match, and the second time the USA has lost a WC match after scoring the opening goal.

Turkey have conceded in each of their last 5 World Cup matches — their last World Cup clean sheet was against Senegal in 2002.

The USA scored multiple goals in all three of their group stage matches at this year’s World Cup, the first time they’ve scored multiple goals in three straight WC matches.

Turkey beat North & Central American opposition for the first time at the World Cup.

This is the 2nd time in 15 matches that the United States have lost a World Cup match in which they scored first (W11 D2 L2).

Türkiye scored with each of their first two shots against the USA after failing to score with any of their 62 shots in their first two matches at this year’s World Cup.