Every football fan will have their own favourite World Cup game but this five-goal thriller takes some beating
By Craig McCracken for Beyond The Last Man
Ask a thousand football fans about the greatest match of their lifetimes and be ready for a thousand different responses – none of them the right one. There’s really only one sensible and rational answer. This particular accolade should belong, unequivocally, to the last-16 game played at the 1994 World Cup between Romania and Argentina. Here’s why you should think so too.
Let’s start with the nuts and bolts behind a remarkable game played at an unremarkable stage of the competition. Romania had qualified for the knockout stages by topping their group and catching the eye with their dazzlingly telepathic counter-attacking play. By contrast Argentina had just squeezed through by the skin of their teeth as a third-place qualifier, yet still approached this tie as favourites thanks to their historical pedigree and heavyweight reputation.
Continue reading...from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2yIwObh
