No. 115 tied with No. 8! Belgium 1-1 Kazakhstan missed the chance to advance to the World Cup

6686 Sports News on November 15th. In the 9th round of Group J of the European Qualifying Tournament of the World Cup, Belgium, ranked 8th in the world, was tied by Kazakhstan, ranked 115th in the away team, and missed the opportunity to advance to the World Cup one round in advance.

If Belgium can win this game, it will lock in the first place in the group in advance and determine its promotion to the 2026 World Cup.

However, Kazakhstan, which was playing at home and had already been eliminated, performed very tenaciously and took the lead in the first half with the goal of 17-year-old Satepev.

Although the Belgian team relied on Vannaken to equalize the score in the second half, Kazakhstan stubbornly maintained the 1-1 score until the end of the game.

In the whole game, Belgium's dribbling rate was as high as 77%. They made 16 shots on goal and 8 shots on target but only scored 1 goal. Kazakhstan, on the other hand, scored 1 goal with 6 shots on goal and 3 shots on target with a dribbling rate of only 23%.

As a result, Belgium has accumulated 15 points with one round left, leading second-placed North Macedonia by 2 points.

In the last round, the Belgian home team faced Liechtenstein, which was ranked 206th in the world and currently has no points. As long as Belgium wins smoothly, it will be guaranteed to advance to the World Cup. This game will kick off at 03:45 on November 19th, Beijing time.

Kazakhstan ended its World Cup preliminaries with 8 points, 2 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses.