With a best ever first performance in a World Cup finals, England overcame Iran with ease on a day that was loaded with booby traps for them. Here's twoht on ENGIRN
So welcome, then, to The Group of Narrative. Fixtures against Iran, the United States of America and Wales looked like three potential booby traps standing in a row for England, but having negotiated the first of these with a performance the likes of which we’ve never seen from them in the opening match of a major tournament, at leastIn the hours before the kick-off, it had felt as though the stars could be aligning in quite a different way for England.
Play eventually restarted again for a minute before stopping again, but it was very clear that the goalkeeper was unable to continue. That much felt evident from the force of the impact itself, all the more so when the cameras zoomed in on his dazed facial expression.
A first half performance of that nature in the first game of a tournament allows you a couple of luxuries. Players could be rested, if needs be. It looked as though they could possibly do with it after a couple of snide late challenges from Iranian players left Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling writhing in pain on the floor.
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