Alan Shearer ya ayyana cewa nasarar Ingila 3-2 a kan Mexico a Estadio Azteca — wadda aka samu da 'yan wasa goma na sama da minti 40 — a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin manyan ayyukan da aka taɓa yi a tarihin ƙwallon ƙafar Ingila.
Ƙungiyar Thomas Tuchel ta kasance tana nuna rashin ƙarfi a wasanninta na baya, amma ta iso Mexico City don wannan zagaye na 16 na gasar Kofin Duniya tare da nuna wani abu mai ban mamaki, tana gwagwarmaya cikin yanayi mai tsauri da raguwar 'yan wasa don samun wuri a zagaye na kusa da kusa da na karshe.
Farkon mai ƙarfi ga Ingila
Ingila ta kasance a faɗake tun daga farko. Jordan Pickford ya yi kwazon kama ƙasa don ceton ragar sa, kuma Ingila ta hukunta wannan dama da ta bata a minti na 36 ta hanyar saurin kai hari mai dawowa: Pickford zuwa Declan Rice, Rice zuwa Bukayo Saka, kuma zargen Saka ya samu Jude Bellingham yana nutsewa — 1-0.
Ingila ta ninka rinjayarta kusan nan da nan bayan farawa. Elliot Anderson ya kwace ƙwallon a filin Mexico ya ba Harry Kane, wanda ya yi ƙaramin wuce ya ratsa layin yadi shida, aka juyar da shi cikin gida ta Bellingham don sawun sa na biyu na dare.
Duk da haka, Mexico ta mayar da martani kafin hutun rabi. Julian Quinones ya buga bugun ƙwallo mai ratayawa daga bugun 'yanci ya mai da shi 2-1, kuma ofa tana ɗaya na Pickford ne kawai — tare da tsafin kusan ƙarshen Bellingham a kusurwar da ta biyo baya — ya kiyaye fifikon Ingila ta 2-1 zuwa hutu.
Jajayen kati na canza wasa
Rabin na biyu ya fara da saurin numfashi ɗaya. Nico O'Reilly ya buga ginshiƙi da bugun saman ƙafa a cikin mintuna biyar na farawa, amma aikin Ingila ya ƙara wahala lokacin da Jarell Quansah ya karɓi jajayen kati kai tsaye daga alkalin wasa Alireza Faghani bayan saurin bincike na VAR a gefen fili don katangar ɗaukakawa.
Duk da raguwa zuwa 'yan wasa goma, Ingila ta faɗaɗa fifikon sa bayan mintuna hudu kawai. Anthony Gordon ya ɗauki ƙwallon daga buga kai na Kane, ya higa filin wasa kuma ya samu laifi daga mai tsaron raga Raul Rangel. Kane ya tashi ya canza bugun fanariti ya mai da shi 3-1.
Mexico na ƙoƙarin daidaitawa — kusan
Matsin lamba bai ragu ba. A minti na 67, an sake kira Faghani zuwa allo aka ba Mexico bugun fanariti bayan yanke hukunci cewa Kane ya faɗa Brian Gutierrez a faɗa don ƙwallon da ke lallashe a cikin filin Ingila. Raul Jimenez ya rude Pickford da guguwar sa da ke tsayawa ya turawa ƙwallon a ƙananan kusurwa — 3-2.
Ingila yanzu dole ta yi kariya fiye da mintuna 20 tare da 'yan wasa goma da fifikon kofin ɗaya kawai, yanayin da ya ƙara firgita lokacin da alkalin lamba huɗu ya nuna mintuna 11 na ƙarin lokaci. Tuchel ya yi kawanya a gefen fili cikin tsoro da ya bayyana a sarari yayin da madadin John Stones kusan ya turawa ƙwallon a cikin ragar sa a daƙiƙoƙin ƙarshe — amma ta wuce da inci kaɗan a wajen ginshiƙi.
Hukuncin Shearer
Yana mai magana a matsayin mai sharhi na biyu na BBC a cikin waɗannan daƙiƙoƙi na ƙarshe masu taɓarɓarewa, Shearer ya ce:
"Idan — kuma na san babban 'idan' ne — za su iya wucewa, za a kiyasta shi a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin manyan ayyukan Ingila. Yadda suke gwagwarmaya suna kuma haɗa kai, abin mamaki ne sosai. Sun cancanta."
Ingila ta samu wuri a zagaye na kusa da kusa da na karshe inda za ta fuskanci Norway, waɗanda suka haifar da babbar mamaki a farkon dare ta hanyar fitar da Brazil da ci 2-1.
