Evening Standard
UK · 4 mins ago
Can anyone stop France? England's World Cup rivals assessed ahead of quarter-finals
The football part of this World Cup has been narrative-rich, an utter delight.Paraguay stunned Germany; Cape Verde and Curacao thrilled; Africa rallied; and all three co-hosts made the knockout stages, an underappreciated ingredient for an entertaining major tournament.Refereeing and VAR controversies crept closer to centre stage during the round of 16, but the arrival of the quarter-finals brings us to the business end of the tournament and, hopefully, better officiating with it. After an unprecedented amount of sifting and separating at the largest-ever World Cup, only eight teams remain. Each one will believe it can be them that prevails at the MetLife Stadium on July 19.Thanks to Argentina’s extraordinary powers of recovery to clamber back from two goals with 12 minutes remaining to be
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