Philipp Mwene is expected to line up at left back for Austria in this clash, meaning that he will have a very difficult personal assignment against Lamine Yamal.

Mwene hasn’t committed many fouls at the World Cup so far, but is generally an aggressive player having averaged 1.78 fouls committed per 90 for Austria during qualifying.

Lamine Yamal should offer a real challenge to Mwene, again his fouls won numbers haven’t been anything spectacular at the World Cup, but this is a small sample size and there often aren’t many ways to stop Yamal without hauling him to the ground.

Yamal won 52 fouls across his 26 starts for Barcelona during the 25/26 LaLiga campaign (2.06 per 90), and also maintained an average of 2.99 fouls won per 90 in the Champions League last term. 

Yamal is as short as 1.40 to win 2+ fouls in this contest, so taking his direct opponent at 1.90 feels like a reasonable price - especially as Mwene is as short as 1.3 with some bookmakers to commit 2+ fouls in this clash.