The story

Belgium have won five of their six most recent home World Cup matches and are unbeaten in eight of their ten most recent World Cup appearances overall, though this match comes 1,292 days after their last outing in the tournament. Egypt arrive having gone unbeaten in 81 of their 97 most recent matches, but have failed to win six of their seven most recent away fixtures and have not been first to score in six of those seven games.