Cape Verde face Saudi Arabia with the knockout rounds one result away

Saudi Arabia on Friday, history on the line

Cape Verde face Saudi Arabia in the final Group H match this Friday (1) (3). A result sends your team through to the World Cup knockout rounds for the first time ever (2) (4). Two draws against former world champions, Spain and Uruguay, have put the Tubarões Azuis on the brink. Now it comes down to this.

Bubista: I always said this would happen

Head coach Bubista is not hiding his belief. "I always said this would happen," he told reporters ahead of the decider (1). He called reaching the last 16 "the big objective" (5). The calm that carried Cape Verde through Spain and Uruguay, it is still there.