USA played the final 26 minutes with ten men. They had their top scorer sent off. Bosnia pushed, pressed, and forced multiple saves in the dying minutes. And still the USA won 2–0. This was not a comfortable victory. It was a gritty, chaotic, deeply dramatic win at the San Francisco Bay Area Stadium — […]
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Folarin Balogun. Right on the stroke of half-time. That is the difference between these two sides at the break. The USA lead Bosnia and Herzegovina 1–0 at the San Francisco Bay Area Stadium, Santa Clara — a lead that felt inevitable given the amount of pressure the hosts produced, and yet arrived later than it […]
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For 85 minutes, Senegal were the better team. Better organised, more clinical, more composed. They led 2–0 and were almost through to the Round of 16 when Belgium turned this match — and then, deep in extra time, a penalty that Senegal will argue about for years, completed one of the most dramatic comebacks in […]
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Senegal go into the break leading Belgium 1–0, and if anything, that scoreline flatters the Europeans. The Lions of Teranga have been the better team across a first half of missed chances, a freak post, a pitch invasion, and one moment of predatory finishing that may prove decisive. Seattle is witnessing something special. Belgium […]
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