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Italiano and Torre the players off. Now, now it's opened up a little bit for Aussie. Australia to go FOR NUMBER TWO. INSIDE BC STADIUM. WELL, again they back off cuz they're petrified of the pacing behind and he takes the opportunity the composure by Metcalfe as you rightly said with his left foot. That little skip in front of the keeper and bounces into the back of the net. What a response again. Little tweak here and there, substitutions allows him to come inside. So, what can Messi do this time?
It's in! [screaming] It's Messi! It's magical! It's another record! He's scoring in seven successive World Cup finals games! There's nothing this magical man can do! Just when you think again the goalkeeper, you know, he's he guesses the goalkeeper and Messi reads it. He knows exactly what he's going to do. He's watching from the back people. Just passes it into the goal. Goalkeeper's not ready. Victor Lindelof taking route one, trying to find Isak. He might be able to get a touch here. Carried away initially. It's Viktor Gyökeres and it's cleared off the line. Still a chance available here for
SWEDEN AND IT'S IN! WHAT A STRIKE! AND WHAT A START FOR THE SWEDES! AND IT'S YASIN AYARI! TWO STRIKERS. I WANT YOU TO WATCH THE movement of Alexander Isak. He gets himself back onside and now he's able to exploit that space in behind. But watch Gyökeres. He's not far behind his striking partner and as a result, he's able to be in the right position to get a strike off. But this is just quality. An absolute peach of a finish from Yasin Ayari. Just clean things up from distance. Just puts his laces through it. Enough power, enough pace. Nothing Shamack and goal can do to deny the man wearing the number 18 shirt to give his side an early lead in this match.
What's interesting John here is last time it was a little more to the left. He had to go over the wall. He can go both sides here because this is central which makes it more difficult for Courtois. And there's a man lying down behind the wall, which means the wall can jump. Tillman over THE WALL SCORES! MALIK TILLMAN! LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE and the UNITED STATES HAS TIED THE GAME! MY GOODNESS, MALIK TILLMAN. We thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime, it turns out it's twice-in-a-lifetime and it takes a deflection on the wall. But it's because again, it's hit with the right amount of pace, the right height, and it comes off the substitute
Benaskin. And that's what I'm saying about it being centrally. Because now all OF A SUDDEN COURTOIS lays out to start going right and the wall has to try to make a play on it. And it's full defender that time. They have two players. De Bruyne won it. QUICK SHOT TAKEN! WHAT A GOAL! GETS A ONE-TOUCH OUT FROM UNDERNEATH THEM, knows exactly where that ball's going, and just gets all of it TO THAT TOP CORNER. WHAT A fantastic strike to put Haiti up once again. What a look that is. My goodness. possession earning some free kicks, but you got to be a bit more dangerous. risky. Net is empty. The shot taken. Cape Verde has scored!
Just play so nonchalantly. It's just a pass and then a careless ball across, but what is Muslera doing coming off his line in no man's land trying to make a play of it, but you love that reaction from the substitute Varela. The first touch sets himself up just to be able to get past Muslera, and then just the slot the second touch inside the foot to the back of the net to tie this game. Exceptional work from Cape Verde. Well, how about that? Punching it into his own goal. It well was well hit, though. WELL, MBAPPé HAS ANOTHER ONE OUT OF NOWHERE. 3-1.
SOME response from France. It's what you do now. Again, I least say at the heart of it. Dribbling through, and Mbappé knows exactly what he wants to do when he turns here. Little bend on it, laces through the ball over the outstretched arms of Edouard Mendy. And what a fantastic goal. This game really came to life here in the last few minutes. Kovacic Sucic being encouraged to shoot. NOW, THAT IS SOME STRIKE. Having a conversation between themselves to say who was at fault, but it's a simple factor. We've spoken about Ghana, how deep they're dropping. So, Baba Sucic, he finds himself on the
ball, and he thinks to himself, "There's nobody coming to me." So, he takes that strike, and we've already spoken about the conditions, the rain, how much it's making the grease on the pitch enable the ball to fly, and that is a prime example of it. By the time Muslera goes down, it's in the back of the net. It looks like Berhalter is the one who's Richards beaten out of the air. Freeze has got to get there and deal with it. He takes it down off the chest. De Ketelaere knocks it away. Tim Ream can't block it, and unless video review says this is a foul from behind on Ream, it is a disastrous third goal to concede to Belgium. play out of it, as you'll see.
Long ball, group one. It's been pretty consistent for Belgium, but you're in a good spot here. Put it out. Takes a touch, hesitates on the left foot, doesn't want to hit it, and then Ream's trying to backtrack, do what he can to block the goal. Just an absolute disaster for the United States. Two goals that have come off mistakes. I don't know why he hesitated, if he felt he was going to get contact from De Ketelaere in the back, or was going to try to make a challenge. Then he's out of his goal. You can't use your hands there. And Tim Ream just off balance, trying to do what he can there. This from about 35 or so yards away.
Backing it up, Lopez come on. Driven instead. WOW. CAPE VERDE WITH A STUNNER. This is just such individual quality. Why not go yourself after the performance you put in against Spain in your first game? Loads of confidence, and it just screamed at the last second. The job doesn't do its wall, they separate. Muslera doesn't see it till the last second, but that skip right there to keep it low right before the dive from Muslera that finds the back of the net.
Excellent strike to find that bottom corner, to keep it low. Incredible start to this game for Cape Verde. He almost got it. Muslera was in the full stretch. Well, the majority of the fans here were rooting for Uruguay, but you can see Cape Verde has a lot of support here.
