波黑击败卡塔尔后，距离淘汰赛阶段仅一步之遥
波黑队始终明白，增加进球数将大大提升他们首次晋级淘汰赛阶段的几率。因此，当埃尔明·马赫米奇打入可能至关重要的第三球，帮助球队战胜卡塔尔淘汰赛时，数千名球迷欣喜若狂也就不足为奇了。而本场比赛的最佳进球无疑属于年仅18岁的凯里姆……
Bosnia and Herzegovina always knew boosting their goals-scored column would enhance their chances of advancing to the knockout stage for the first time. It was no wonder, then, that thousands of their supporters went berserk when Ermin Mahmic added a potentially crucial third goal in a victory that eliminated Qatar. The goal of the game undoubtedly belonged to the exciting 18-year-old Kerim Alajbegovic, but Mahmic’s sealed a win that means a last-32 date with the USA in Santa Clara, at the home of the San Francisco 49ers, is the most likely scenario from here.
It was impossible to ignore the sense that Bosnia and Herzegovina’s head coach, Sergej Barbarez, was keeping his powder dry by keeping Alajbegovic on a leash of sorts after declining to start the teenager in their opener against Canada. After all, Alajbegovic was instrumental in Bosnia and Herzegovina arriving to this point, entering as a gamechanging substitute in playoff wins over Wales and then Italy, scoring penalties in both shootout victories, including the decisive spot-kick in Cardiff.
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