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The Norwegian team continued to impose its historical complex on its Brazilian counterpart, suffering another defeat (2-1) in the round of 16 of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, eliminating one of the most successful teams from the tournament and at the same time revealing the extent of the crisis that the Seleção are experiencing after this early exit, which was accompanied by a historic number of shocks.
Brazil’s defeat by Norway opened the door to unprecedented history, confirming that the team with the record number of World Cup victories is going through one of its most difficult periods ever.
According to statistics specialist Opta, it is Brazil’s fastest exit from a World Cup finals since 1990, when they exited the tournament after losing to Argentina in the Round of 16.
The network added that Brazil had managed to reach at least the quarter-finals in each of their last eight games, before this remarkable record was suspended at the 2026 World Cup by exiting in the last 16.
Negative numbers were not limited to this, as they mentioned.Opta“Brazil are currently on their longest run without a World Cup title in their history, having failed to lift the trophy in their last six games since their last win at the 2002 World Cup.
On the other hand, he emphasizedOpta“Norway became the only team in football history to go unbeaten in their first five games against Brazil, winning three and drawing two, continuing their historic dominance over the Samba Dancers.”
In turn, he revealed French “Stats Foot” network. Another historic number, noting that since the introduction of the modern World Cup quarter-final system in 1934, the 2026 edition is the first in which both Brazil and Germany are absent from the list of eight teams that qualified for the quarter-finals.
This early exit confirms that Brazil are not just losing a qualifier, but are experiencing a run of unusually negative numbers, while Norway continue to write one of the most famous stories of the tournament, knocking off one of the giants of world football and cementing their historic tie against Brazil.
