FIFA World Cup 2026: FIFA World Cup was a nightmare for this team, shameful departure from the tournament without scoring a single goal

The league stage of the FIFA World Cup 2026 has now reached its final stage, and today the last very exciting matches of the group stage were played. For the first time, teams from 48 countries took part in this Mahakumbh of football, out of which 32 teams which performed brilliantly have managed to secure their place in the next round i.e. ‘Round of 32’. On the other hand, this World Cup has proved to be a nightmare for the country, one of the 16 unlucky teams to be eliminated from the tournament. This unlucky team could not score a single goal during the entire tournament and returned home without opening its account.

Panama trapped in the maze of strong teams of Group-L, suffered a crushing defeat in all three matches.

We are talking about Panama football team, which got a place in Group-L for this mega tournament. In this group, Panama faced the world’s most lethal and strong teams like Ghana, Croatia and England. Panama faced crushing defeat in all three of its group stage matches. However, if seen from the sporting point of view, Panama’s defenders had shown a very aggressive game in the initial matches of the tournament. Against aggressive teams like Ghana and Croatia, Panama kept the opposition forwards from scoring for a long time, but during this time their own forward line proved to be a complete failure in creating chances and scoring goals.

Ghana and Croatia broke Panama’s courage by 1-0, defense remained ineffective

Panama’s strikers looked completely directionless in sending whatever golden chances they got into the goal post throughout the match. In the first match of the group, Ghana gave a tough fight to Panama and defeated Panama by a close margin of 1-0. After this, the story did not change in the second match too and Panama had to suffer a painful 1-0 defeat against Croatia. After these two consecutive defeats, all Panama’s hopes of remaining in the tournament rested only on their last group match, but even there their luck did not favor them.

Last hope broken against England, Harry Kane and Bellingham scored brilliant goals

In its last league match, Panama faced the strongest team of the group, England. Even in this do-or-die match, Panama’s team could not score a goal. England’s star players kept pressure on Panama from the beginning of the match and gave a strong performance and easily won the match 2-0. For England, star midfielder Jude Bellingham and veteran striker Harry Kane showed their class and scored two brilliant goals.

The only flop team in FIFA history: The journey ended without points and without goals.

With this defeat against England, Panama was officially out of the World Cup 2026 race without scoring any points and without scoring any goals. The interesting and surprising thing is that in the list of 16 teams that were eliminated from FIFA this year, Panama has proved to be the only team in the world in which not a single goal could be recorded. Apart from Panama, all the other 15 eliminated teams had scored at least one goal in the tournament. After this disappointing performance, the Panama Football Association will have to rethink its strategy in the coming times.