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Finesse was no match for the World Cup hosts’ tenacity in their Moscow last‑16 showdown
Tiki-taxi for Spain. On a slow-burn, increasingly wild afternoon at the Luzhniki Stadium the outstanding team of the age produced a quietly extraordinary performance, exiting the World Cup with surely the most statistically dominant losing game ever mustered up.
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Written by Barney Ronay at the Luzhniki Stadium
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/01/spain-style-eats-itself-face-russia-rearguard-heroism under the title “Tiki-taxi for Spain as style becomes vice against Russia’s rearguard | Barney Ronay”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
