Coming Up Next: The 2,000th World Cup Goal

With six goals combined in the first two games today, there have now been 1,997 goals scored in the history of the World Cup. Will we see a historic 2,000th put in during the later games today? It would normally be a fairly safe bet, but this is Group B where only four goals have been scored total, and two of the teams – Trinidad and Tobago, and Paraguay – have yet to score.

For those history buffs out there, the 1,000th goal was scored by Netherlands’ Rob Resenbrink back in 1978.

Before today’s earlier games, there had been an average of 2.34 goals per game this year, which is below the all-time average of 2.94 goals per game.