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The landmark win over Pakistan in the Cricket World Cup will cause a ripple effect in Afghan cricket and inspire future players, Afghanistan coach Jonathan Trott said soccer
Afghan batters chased down the 283 target methodically, with a focus on singles and doubles to keep off the pressure, winning the match by eight wickets with six balls to spare soccer
It was their second win in five games, and Afghanistan’s third-ever World Cup victory soccer
It was also their first victory over neighbours Pakistan in eight One Day International (ODI) matches and the first World Cup win while chasing against a Test-playing nation soccer
“This will have a great ripple effect,” Trott told reporters soccer
“I want to make sure that (the players) soccer
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pass it on and remember that game in Chennai when we chased on 283 against Pakistan soccer
”The Englishman called the 130-run opening partnership put on by Rehmanullah Gurbaz (65) and Ibrahim Zadran (87) the “turning point” and praised Rahmat Shah, who played through several cramps to help steady the game when the openers fell soccer
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but shot that he played there to hit a straight six sort of broke the back of the game,” Trott said of Shah, who scored an unbeaten 77, 45 of which came from ones and twos soccer
This win along with the Oct soccer
15 triumph over defending champions England propelled Afghanistan from the bottom of the table to sixth place before facing ninth-place Sri Lanka next Monday soccer
“I will say to the players make sure you enjoy these victories but as soon as we (arrive in) Pune soccer
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take the confidence from the game and start looking forward to Sri Lanka,” Trott said soccer
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The main fact of this 3-1 win was that England have qualified for Euro 2024, but the whole feel was why they should be talking about winning it rather than being too concerned any more with the formality of getting there soccer
A historic major nation like Italy were just made look a minor inconvenience, as Gareth Southgate’s side almost toyed with them soccer
They were just so much soccer better, and have a knowledge of that personified in Jude Bellingham soccer
Harry Kane got two and Marcus Rashford scored a brilliant goal to make it 2-1, but all of that seemed mere detail to the main event, which was the Real Madrid midfielder’s domination of the pitch and decoration of the play soccer
This England era has now been going on for at least six years, but it is possible that Bellingham’s emergence marks the beginning of something else soccer
He has exactly the type of assurance that can turn fine challengers into elite champions soccer
It is visible in everything he does, not least the outrageous touch for the Rashford goal that sent England to Germany for next summer soccer
Bellingham is exactly what England have been missing, for far more reasons than his position and his talent soccer
RecommendedHarry Kane and Marcus Rashford lead devastating England attack against ItalyJude Bellingham once again proves he is the key for England’s Euro 2024 hopesIt wasn’t all positive emotion on the night, mind soccer
This game did take place amid a more unsettling real-world context, and it should be recorded that the pre-game minutes silence - worded as for “all the members of the European soccer football family killed in recent days from Uefa member nations Israel and Sweden” - had to be ended early as shouts quickly gave way to loud boos soccer
The Italian anthem got similar treatment, as did Jordan Henderson coming on as a substitute, following his move to the Saudi Pro League soccer
There were conspicuously loud cheers alongside that, and that was the noise that soon made up the night’s main soundtrack soccer
Amid all this, not least the performance, any idea of revenge for the Euro 2020 final was forgotten soccer
That now feels a different soccer football world, even though this England team have clearly internalised the disappointment and learned from it soccer
It just didn’t seem to matter too much to this match soccer
It’s a very different Italy for one, as Roberto Mancini followed Henderson to the Saudi Pro League, to be replaced by the much more tactically adventurous Luciano Spalletti soccer
He is one of the modern game’s romantics in that sense, but that Italian soccer football culture for tactical innovation has never been more necessary soccer
Italy, in a greater way than at any point in the modern history of the game, badly need to be more than the sum of their parts soccer
Those parts, with a few exceptions, currently look like those of a mid-tier nation rather than the great soccer football country Italy is soccer
Kane scored a double as England cruised through (The FA via Getty Images)There are bigger reasons for that soccer
For now, it is England that look the force soccer
They look like potential European champions in waiting, as Italy looked anything other than defending champions soccer
That still created a few echoes from 2021, not least in the tactical pattern of the game soccer
England looked much more prepared to cede possession and counter, although this time with much more force than in that final soccer
The group context of course conditioned this, too soccer
While England only required a draw, Italy really needed the win soccer
The situation demanded more attacking, but so did the manager soccer
The encouraging aspect for Spalletti was that Italy already looked more recognisably like one of his teams soccer
Most identifiably, there were those sudden straight-line runs in attack, almost spikes that can do much more than pierce a team soccer
Giovanni Di Lorenzo looked especially dangerous from these situations, as he marked himself out as one of the most involved players in the game soccer
It was his run down the right that opened the space for Gianluca Scamacca, an incisive move ending with an instinctive finish from the former West Ham striker soccer
Scamacca had given Italy an early lead but England responded well (Getty Images)It was his first goal for Italy, on his 13th cap, which perhaps goes some way to reflecting why this major soccer football nation no longer feels a significant threat soccer
It was still a set-back for England, but one that only served to show how they have far surpassed the sort of side that used to have a psychological hold on soccer
They just have far superior players, chief among them Bellingham soccer
You get the sense no opposition side could ever have a psychological hold over him soccer
Di Lorenzo needed to just bring him down for England’s equaliser soccer
It was difficult to figure out why it took the VAR so long to make a decision given how clear the foul seemed to be soccer
Kane duly equalised soccer
With that shift in momentum, Italy never regained the same force soccer
The match from then almost seemed set up for England, as they visibly enjoyed just surging into the space left behind soccer
Kane reached 60 England goals with his first from the spot (Getty Images)That is something Spalletti is going to have to work on, but then that’s been the case for much of his managerial career soccer
It is a feature of his teams that Italy may just have to work around soccer
Bellingham just cut through it soccer
The manner of the goal that sealed qualification was entirely fitting of that achievement, even if it doesn’t mean what it used to soccer
That is precisely because of the quality of the players involved soccer
They have made life with England so much easier, say, than their equivalent games with Italy for the 1998 World Cup soccer
Bellingham is meanwhile of a type distinctive even from Manchester United’s serial winners in that era soccer
There is just something about the way he carries himself at that age, as could be seen with how he carried the ball for Rashford soccer
The United forward’s finish was as satisfyingly forceful as it was finely placed soccer
Rashford scored a brilliant goal on the break to put England ahead (The FA via Getty Images)Kane matched that with his second, and England’s third, for a scoreline that was more reflective of the gap soccer between the teams soccer
The gap from now to Euro 2024 can of course change the landscape of the game soccer
Italy themselves grew from their own excellent qualification for Euro 2020 into something greater for that tournament soccer
Other sides will evolve soccer
For now, though, none of them bar France look on England’s level soccer
It was why a win over Italy, and a qualification for a major tournament, felt like such minor developments soccer
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