📅 23/11/22🕒 19:00🏟️ Ahmad bin Ali Stadium🧑⚖️ J. Sikazwe
Home team
Belgium
Score
1-0
Away team
Canada
Biggest Swing+1.41 xT44' M. BatshuayiCards5VAR1review
Belgium 1-0 Canada — xTears 10.71 (23/11/22)
Belgium won 1-0 against Canada on 23 November 2022 during Matchday 1 of the World Cup, even with the xTears split tilting slightly the other way. Total damage: 10.71 xTears.
Even with the xTears split leaning slightly the other way, the heaviest moments for Belgium still ran through M. Batshuayi at 44' goal (+1.41 xT) and T. Buchanan at 9' penalty confirmed by VAR (+1.18 xT).
The scoreboard and xTears did not tell exactly the same story: Belgium punished better without fully owning the emotional volume.
How It Unfolded
Timeline
9'
Penalty confirmed by VAR
T. Buchanan - Canada
44'
Goal
M. Batshuayi - Belgium
Assist: T. Alderweireld
All-out war
🟥
4.49
81'
Yellow card
+1.04 xT
A. Davies - Canada
83'
Yellow card
+1.04 xT
A. Johnston - Canada
9'
Yellow card
+0.81 xT
Y. Carrasco - Belgium
53'
Yellow card
+0.80 xT
T. Meunier - Belgium
Absolute chaos
🧨
3.51
44'
Goal
+1.41 xT
M. Batshuayi - Belgium
Assist: T. Alderweireld
9'
Penalty confirmed by VAR
+1.18 xT
T. Buchanan - Canada
81'
Substitution
+0.46 xT
J. Osorio for S. Eustáquio - Canada
81'
Substitution
+0.46 xT
L. Millar for T. Buchanan - Canada
Late drama
🔥
3.00
81'
Yellow card
+1.04 xT
A. Davies - Canada
83'
Yellow card
+1.04 xT
A. Johnston - Canada
81'
Substitution
+0.46 xT
J. Osorio for S. Eustáquio - Canada
81'
Substitution
+0.46 xT
L. Millar for T. Buchanan - Canada
Referee scandal
🧑⚖️
1.18
9'
Penalty confirmed by VAR
+1.18 xT
T. Buchanan - Canada
Cruelty
😈
Never really sparked
0
Nothing big fed this one.
Crushed hope
💔
Never really sparked
0
Nothing big fed this one.