Ingila ta yi daya daga cikin mafi hadaddun wasanninta a gasar FIFA World Cup wajen doke Mexico a filin wasa na tatsuniya Azteca Stadium, tana tabbatar da wuri a zagaye na sha shida. Tsayin Mexico City, jama'a masu adawa, da kuzarin 'yan wasan Mexico sun buƙaci gwanin dabara — kuma manajan Thomas Tuchel ya bayar da shi, yana raba wasan zuwa matakai biyar daban daban.

Mataki na 1: Hana Mexico daga cin zali

Mataimakin koci Anthony Barry ya tabbatar da tsarin dabara na Ingila a lokacin hutu. "Mun shirya 'yan wasa cewa har zuwa hutu na farko na ruwa zai kasance wasa mai wahala," Barry ya ce. "Za mu sha wahala. Mexico kullum tana fara da sauri. Mun san 0-0 zai zama sakamako mai kyau a lokacin hutu."

Kafin wasa, Tuchel ya nemi danna mai tunani fiye da kowa. "Mun cika alkawari ga dannawa," ya ce, "amma ba tattalin arziki ba ne. Muna buƙatar kasancewa masu hankali da zabar daidai lokacin." Ingila ta yi haka ne daidai — ta yi amfani da Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham, da ɗan wasa na uku na ƙari don yanke wasan gina na Mexico, ɗaya fiye da yadda suka yi amfani da shi a kan DR Congo a zagaye na baya.

Mai tsakiya Elliot Anderson ya rike matsayi mai zurfi a waɗannan jerin, ya kasance kusa da 'yan baya tsakiya don yanke ƙwallon fita da sauƙi na Mexico. Ingila ta ɗauki matsakaicin daƙiƙa 37 don dawo da mallakar ƙwallon a rabin farko, idan aka kwatanta da daƙiƙa 12.1 kawai a wasanninta huɗu na baya — hanya ta gangan mai haƙuri.

Mataki na 2: Bugawa da sauri

Ingila ta hukunta kurakuran ɗorewar Mexico don ɗaukar sarrafawa kafin hutu. Gilberto Mora ɗan shekara 17, yawanci mai tsakiya na gefen dama, ya sami kansa a wajen matsayinsa a gefen hagu. Mai gida Jordan Pickford ya lura da giɓin, ya samu Declan Rice da sauri, wanda ya ci gaba da ƙarfi ya ɓarwa Bukayo Saka. Kwaɓon Saka ya sami Bellingham da ya iso a hankali a gindin baya — 1-0.

Sake fara wasan Mexico ya tafi mummuna. Ingila ta yi danna da ƙarfi daga farawa, Anderson — wanda ya kasance a zurfi a baya — yana fita gaba don cike sararin da ke bayan masu kai hari. Ya dawo da ƙwallon, Bellingham ya ƙara da kari na biyu — 2-0.

Mataki na 3: Neman mulki

Ingila ta fara rabi na biyu da karin ƙwazo, tana danna sama a filin wasa. Anthony Gordon da Saka sun raba aiki a matsayin mai kai hari na uku na danna sama, suna mai da wasan ya zama buɗaɗɗe. Wannan ƙwazantaka, duk da haka, ta zo da farashi : Bellingham ya bi mai gida Raul Rangel zurfi a yankin Mexico yayin da mai tsaron baki na dama Jarell Quansah aka jan shi wajen matsayinsa ta hanyar ɗan wasan gefen hagu Julian Quinones. Saka yana a gaban, daka ta jan baci ta Quansah a kan Jesus Gallardo ta kawo shi jan kati — Ingila da 'yan wasa 10.

Mataki na 4: Yawan Mexico a gefen gefe

Tuchel ya amsa nan take, ya shigar da John Stones a madadin Saka, Ezri Konsa yana ƙaura zuwa mai tsaron baki na dama. Ingila ta zauna a tsarin 4-4-1, tana dogaro da Gordon a matsayin ɗan wasa mai sauri a gaba — wanda ya sami ita fanareti. Mexico, duk da haka, ta kasance mai haɗari ta hanyar Quinones da mai tsaron baki na hagu Gallardo, waɗanda suka ƙirƙiri alwatika masu haɗari a gefen hagu, suna kwaikwayon tsarin yawan gefen gefe da Ingila kanta ta yi amfani da shi a duk gasar.

Mataki na 5: Kuna mai gidan

A hutu na ruwa na gaba, Tuchel ya sake sake tsari — Dan Burn da Djed Spence a madadin Anderson da Nico O'Reilly yayin da Ingila ta koma 5-3-1. Bellingham, Rice, da Gordon sun kafa layin tsakiya uku, an zaɓe su don ƙarfinsu na rufe tazara. Burn mai tsayi na ft 6 da in 7 ya zama mai ƙarfi a gindin baya yayin da Mexico ta kai hari da kwaɓayen daga hagu.

Hari na Mexico ya zama mai hasashe, kuma shawara ta Javier Aguirre ta cire Quinones — babban mai azabtarwa na Ingila — ta shigar da ɗan wasan kai hari Guillermo Martinez ya yi aiki kai tsaye don amfanin Tuchel. Kowane hari na Mexico an karkatar da shi gefe kafin kwaɓo na fata wanda aka share cikin sauƙi. Ingila ta tsaya ta ci gaba.

Nasara a gasar tana buƙatar daidaitawa, kuma Ingila ta nuna haka daidai — 'yan wasa 10, muhalli mai adawa, da wasanni biyar a cikin ɗaya.