Spanish footballer Pablo Gavi became the third youngest goal scorer ever in the history of the FIFA World Cup overtaking England’s Michael Owen during Spain’s trashing of Costa Rica in the Group E fixture on Wednesday.
He scored a grounded volley that deceived Keylor Nevas, hit the post and slipped into the Costa Rica goal. He was 18 years 98 days old when he scored the goal.
Watch his incredible goal here.
He is still behind Manuel Rosas of Mexico who scored a goal at 18 years and 90 days. Pele is still in the top spot scoring his first World Cup goal at the age of 17 years and 239 days.
Spain scored two more goals in the match while not conceding any. They recorded the biggest-ever scoreline for the nation in the World Cup kindling hopes for Spain fans that 2022 could well be a repeat of the legendary 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Spain had an incredible 82% possession in the match and they managed 17 shots out of which eight were on target. As is evident from the scoreline, seven out of the eight shots on target resulted in goals.
Group E now stands in an incredible situation after Spain’s win against Costa Rica. Earlier, Japan defeated Germany 2-1 and are currently second in the group. If Japan wins their next match against Costa Rica and Germany loses against Spain, then Germany will leave the FIFA World Cup 2022 in the group stages in a repeat of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
Spain will play Germany next on Monday, November 28 and their last group-stage match against Japan will be on Friday, December 2.
Spain are the favorites to win both matches but the World Cup has already shown that disasters are always around the corner.
