The knockout stage continues at the World Cup with another round-of-16 game between Argentina and Australia. Follow along for live updates:
WAKRAH, Qatar — Australia barely wriggled into this World Cup like some gritty but gasping marsupial while Denmark came in after recent heights as a sleek, fashionable pick to go far, but then there’s sports, and sports always reserves the right to take your assumptions and shove them clear to Sydney.
So it goes that Australia, a country that knows sports arguably better than any other, is going to the knockout stage and Denmark, the fetching Euro 2020 semifinalist, is not. So it went that the yellow-shirted Australian corner of the 41,232 in Al Janoub Stadium wound up reveling Wednesday night in the Socceroos’ 1-0 win over the Danes that featured more Danish possession but not all that much flukiness.
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