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Gol melawan Kroasia di pertandingan pembuka Piala Dunia timnya adalah gol yang marah dengan rasa keniscayaan yang meningkat Dan bernapas lagi. Selama 45 menit pembukaan di bawah atap stasiun kereta api Victoria raksasa di Stadion Dallas, Inggris menghasilkan pertunjukan yang sedikit seperti menonton salah satu video YouTube di mana robot Tiongkok yang canggung dan menakutkan telah belajar menari seperti Michael...
Goal against Croatia in his side’s World Cup opener was an angry one with a rising sense of inevitability
And breathe again. For the opening 45 minutes under the giant Victorian train station roof at the Dallas Stadium, England produced a performance that was a bit like watching one of those YouTube videos where an awkward and frightening Chinese robot has learned how to dance like Michael Jackson.
Dogged and occasionally convincing, but the kind of spectacle that does generally end with the robot falling off the stage. England didn’t just play like machines in that first half. They played like faulty machines, scared machines, contributing almost zero free-form football to a 2-2 half-time score that included two Harry Kane set-piece goals; the first a set piece from a set piece, a penalty after a corner, set piece squared.
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