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OLIVER HOLT IN ATLANTA: In a futuristic‚ gleaming steel stadium‚ protected from the hellish heat that beat down outside by a translucent dome‚
England spent 68 minutes wrestling with nightmares and staring at a defeat that would have ranked alongside their loss to the
USA at the 1950
World Cup in Belo Horizonte as the worst in their history. Un
done by their own abysmal defending in this Round of 32 match‚ kept at bay by the heroic performance of
DR Congo goalkeeper Lionel Mpasi and denied what looked like a certain penalty for a foul on
Harry Kane by the Jordanian referee‚
England were stalked by thoughts of the humiliation of an early exit when they had come to win the
World Cup. Instead‚ well‚ instead‚ just
Harry Kane. It is as simple as that‚ really. Sure‚
Jude Bellingham played like a titan again and
Anthony Gordon made a big difference when he came off the bench but when a crushing 1-0 defeat was only 15 minutes away‚
Kane stepped up and blasted
England into a Round of 16 tie against
Mexico City in the mighty Azteca Stadium on Sunday evening.