Good evening from a balmy stadium where the World Cup's last 32 begins to take shape. The Netherlands meet Morocco in a tie that on paper suggests tec...
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Monterrey is the stage, and the stakes could not be higher. The Netherlands, a team that has rebuilt its soul around pragmatic control, face a Morocco...
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There is a certain brutal finality to a penalty shootout. It strips the game of its tactical nuance, its structured low blocks and its transitional pa...
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Let's be honest. Nobody saw this coming. Not the 70,000 inside the stadium, not the millions watching at home, and certainly not the German Football A...
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There is an electricity in the air around the Estadio Monterrey that goes beyond the usual World Cup buzz. This is a stadium carved into the mountains...
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The half time whistle blew in Houston and a familiar dread hung over the Brazilian camp. Players trudged off, heads down, having stared into the abyss...
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There is a moment in every World Cup when the script is torn up and thrown into the wind. At the Merkur Spiel. Arena this afternoon, that moment had a...
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For a nation so accustomed to controlling the narrative on the pitch, the sight of two key wide men hobbling off against Uruguay sent a shudder throug...
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There are moments in a World Cup campaign that define character. Brazil, for all their samba flair and historical pedigree, found themselves staring d...
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There is a scene captured by our own GoalZaza cameras that perfectly distils the paradox of Carlo Ancelotti. Brazil is in full ferment around him, a n...
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There was a moment, deep in the Belo Horizonte humidity, when Brazil's World Cup dream looked set for an early obituary. Japan had parked the bus with...
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Giovanni Carnevali has been in the corridors of power at Continassa for a matter of weeks, and already the new Juventus director is playing a characte...
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