There is a rare kind of electricity in the air tonight, the sort that only arrives when an occasion is bigger than the sum of its parts. Austria and J...
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There is a peculiar thrill in witnessing a team that nobody truly knows. Algeria arrive at this World Cup as football's great enigma, a side whose rep...
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There are players who rise to the occasion, and then there are players for whom the occasion barely seems to register as a disturbance. Erling Haaland...
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There are stories that football spins that feel scripted. Then there are stories that leave you wondering how the script survived at all. Aymen Hussei...
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Here we are then. The world champions step onto the pitch to open their World Cup defence, but standing opposite them is perhaps the tournament's grea...
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Thomas Tuchel has delivered a line that will either be hailed as stubborn genius or naive arrogance, depending on how the mercury rises in Qatar. The...
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Football is a peculiar beast. One moment you are scaling the heights of a famous victory against Turkey, the next you are staring down the barrel of a...
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Let's be honest. When the draw for the 2026 World Cup was made, few outside the Maghreb gave Algeria a second glance. Yet here they are, lining up aga...
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There is a moment in every tournament when the noise from outside becomes a roar. For Thomas Tuchel, that moment arrived with the mercury rising and t...
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It took Erling Haaland precisely 23 minutes of his World Cup career to announce his presence on the grandest stage with all the authority we have come...
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The World Cup is still a few cycles away, but the appetite for high class international football never truly fades. When Argentina line up against Alg...
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Football can be a brutal business, and no one knows that better than Iraq's Jalal Hassan after this chastening afternoon. Erling Haaland is a predator...
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