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Kevin de Bruyne

was desperate.

He looked from one side to the other and there he didn't see his Manchester City teammates, but a bunch of guys in full twilight.

He no longer knew who else to rebuke.

He spotted

Witsel

.

He sent him to fry asparagus.

And when

Batshuayi

, who would not be

Haaland

, scored the goal that freed Belgium from the torture that volcanic Canada was subjecting him to, De Bruyne did not even celebrate.

He went to the band and asked his coach,

Roberto Martínez

, for explanations .

Because this Belgium, third in the last World Cup and second in the FIFA ranking, was for many stretches a confused team and with no more arguments than the arms of goalkeeper

Courtois

.

Canada's deployment was exciting, but innocent.

This team has little to do with the one he played 36 years ago in the World Cup in Mexico, his only participation.

He then lost all three games and was not able to score a goal.

Eleven of those players, by the way, were playing in a

six-on-six American

indoor popcorn league, where the goals were bigger and there were walls for the ball to bounce off.

Nothing to do with that surrealism with this Canada that John Herdman

trains

and with

Alphonso Davies

as a great banner.

A daring team that amused the fans of the maple leaves that populated the Bin Ali stadium in Rayyan.

Eden Hazard

watched life go by walking.

On one occasion, he waited for a ball to fall from the air to tame it with sublime control.

But it was not that more than the spark of a spent lighter.

Hazard waited for things to happen, and the Canadians flew in to provoke them.

But the World Cup is not a competition that admits forgiveness.

Canada already knows.

Also Alphonso Davies, who was responsible for launching the penalty with which the Americans would have advanced after ten minutes.

The VAR caught

Carrasco

taking his hand out for a walk, and the Bayern winger could only begin to look at Courtois's imposing image.

Davies had already missed the penalty before taking it.

He hit her, meek, it was a gift for goal.

Miller

beat his chest every time he won a duel.

Eustáquio

, a Porto midfielder, turned the midfield into his private dance floor.

While

Buchanan

,

Jonathan David

and

Hoilett

relentlessly harassed the Belgian rear.

Although all of them melted when Courtois' big body appeared on the horizon.

Witsel, meanwhile, was about to commit another penalty.

Until Batshuayi, who will replace

Lukaku

until he recovers, got fed up with shooting the ball to hunt the dream ball.

Vertonghen

assisted from the other ocean,

Vitória

didn't stretch her boot enough, and the Fenerbahçe striker scored at first touch just before the break.

It was enough.

Canada noticed that commitment and enthusiasm do not always make up for the lack of quality.

And Belgium sighed.

With fear in the body, and with Morocco and Croatia threatening just around the corner.

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