Ecuador0–0Curaçao

Ecuador battered Curaçao's goal for ninety minutes and still couldn't find a way through. 27 shots, 15 of them on target, and the scoreboard stubbornly read 0-0 at the final whistle — all because of Eloy Room. The Curaçao goalkeeper turned in one of the all-time great defensive performances, finishing with 15 saves, denying Enner Valencia, Gonzalo Plata, John Yeboah and Kevin Rodríguez over and over from every angle imaginable. The closest Ecuador came was a flurry around the hour mark when Curaçao somehow cleared three point-blank efforts in the same scramble. Curaçao picked up five yellow cards as the match wore on, with bodies flying into challenges to keep the door shut, but it worked — the smallest nation ever to play at a World Cup walked away from Arrowhead Stadium with a point that, on the chances created, had no business surviving.