England led with five minutes left. Then Enzo Fernández bent one in from distance, and Messi's cross found Lautaro in the 92nd. Forty years on, Argentina broke English hearts again.
A 19-year-old's birthday wish, a penalty-box theft, and the quiet suffocation of the world's number one team. Spain are in the final — and they made it look inevitable.
Egypt led the world champions 2–0 with 11 minutes left — after VAR had already wiped out a goal for contact at the other end of the pitch. What followed still divides the football world.
Maradona's hand. Beckham's red card. Owen's run. Now, for the first time ever, England and Argentina meet in a World Cup semi-final — forty years after the Azteca.
A missed penalty redeemed, a substitute goalkeeper's nightmare, the Cable of God and a 112th-minute golazo. The last eight, reviewed in full.
A thunderstorm, a Bellingham double, a red card and two penalties. Mexico's fortress fell, the quinto partido died again — and England buried a 40-year ghost.
Haaland sank Brazil. Belgium routed the hosts amid the strangest suspension saga in World Cup history. The round of 16 spared nobody.
Messi owns the World Cup goal record. Cape Verde own the tournament's heart. On Friday, Miami hosts football's most beautiful mismatch.
Balogun scored, then saw red on a VAR call nobody understood. What ten American men did next ended 24 years of waiting.
Four matches, eight goals, none conceded. Now England come to the Azteca — and a nation dares to dream past the quarter-finals.
Critics called the round of 32 padding. Then Paraguay and Morocco turned it into a graveyard for European heavyweights.
48 teams, 104 matches, three nations, sixteen cities. The biggest tournament ever staged kicks off now.
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