Canada vs Qatar World Cup: 3 goals for David, 2 red cards, 1 injured Kone

BC Place Vancouver was a battlefield arsenic Kone was stretchered off, Qatar got 2 reddish cards, and some teams brawled aft afloat time.

Canada thrashed nine-man Qatar 6-0 to clinch their first-ever World Cup triumph successful a Group B match, marred by a horrific wounded to the location team’s midfielder Ismael Kone, and disciplinary issues some during and aft the match.

A Jonathan David hat-trick, 1 extremity apiece from Cyle Larin and Nathan Saliba, arsenic good arsenic a Qatar ain goal, sealed a momentous triumph for the Canadians astatine the BC Place Vancouver stadium connected Thursday.

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Canada present request lone a gully against Switzerland successful their last lucifer to decorativeness apical of the group, portion Qatar and Bosnia and Herzegovina volition purpose to decorativeness 3rd erstwhile they conscionable connected Wednesday.

But the celebratory ambiance successful Vancouver, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney cheering connected Les Rouges, was soured by a superior wounded to Kone successful the 51st minute.

Qatar’s Assim Madibo upended Kone with a clumsy situation from behind, leaving the Italy-based midfielder writhing successful agony and clutching his near leg.

The seriousness of the wounded was instantly evident arsenic teammates frantically called for assistance from the Canadian aesculapian unit connected the sidelines.

Kone was yet stretchered disconnected the pitch, waving to the assemblage arsenic helium inhaled from an oxygen pipe.

Kone waves to the assemblage arsenic helium receives oxygen portion being stretchered disconnected aft sustaining an wounded [Agustin Marcarian/Reuters]

Madibo, who had initially been fixed a yellowish paper for the tackle, was sent disconnected aft it was upgraded to reddish pursuing a VAR review, the 2nd Qatari dismissal aft Homam Ahmed was fixed his marching orders successful the archetypal half.

With Qatar down to 9 men, Canada took afloat vantage to people 3 much goals.

Saliba, who had replaced the injured Kone, curled successful a escaped footwear to marque it 4-0 successful the 64th minute.

The substitute celebrated his extremity by racing to the sideline to clasp up a replica of the stricken Kone’s Canadian jersey and pointing to his jersey number, eight.

Another substitute, Jacob Shaffelburg, past helped marque it 5-0, his fierce changeable turned into the Qatar extremity by defender Mohamed Manai.

David, who had scored doubly successful the archetypal fractional aft Cyle Larin’s 16th-minute opener, past completed his hat-trick successful the 2nd infinitesimal of stoppage clip to extremity the rout.

Jonathan David celebrates scoring his 2nd extremity [Fran Santiago/Getty Images via AFP]

‘Tough to focus’

David’s was the 56th hat-trick scored astatine a men’s World Cup and the 2nd of the 2026 edition.

Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi earned his archetypal of the tourney erstwhile helium led his broadside to a 3-0 triumph implicit Algeria and steamrolled respective records successful the process.

David is besides the archetypal Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) men’s subordinate to people a hat-trick since 1930 and the archetypal Canadian antheral to grounds a multi-goal crippled astatine the World Cup.

Embers of carnage during the lucifer were reignited aft full-time erstwhile some sides brawled connected the halfway enactment and had to beryllium pushed isolated by FIFA volunteers and squad personnel.

“It was a large crippled adjacent earlier [Kone] got hurt, but I deliberation aft helium got hurt, it was pugnacious to absorption connected the game, adjacent finishing the game… We conscionable wanted the crippled to extremity truthful we could each beryllium together,” David said aft the match.

“It volition instrumentality a fewer days to descend in, but evidently we cognize that what we’ve done contiguous is humanities for the country, our archetypal triumph successful the World Cup, and to bash it successful that manner is truly amazing.”

Qatar had a forgettable time successful the tract [Lee Smith/Reuters]