ROUND OF 8 •
Morocco brought a polite, tidy timetable to the pitch, but France simply waited for the inevitable signal failure to strike, operating at a terrifyingly casual seventy percent.
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A suffocating carousel of short passes around the penalty area, as the Spanish polished their possession while the Belgians simply watched the paint dry.
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A stiflingly polite procedural exercise played out in a Miami sauna, interrupted only when Jude Bellingham decided he had queued long enough.
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An exercise in slow-puncturing a tyre, where the reigning champions seemed to forget why they turned up until a desperate late swing of a boot saved their blushes.
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