Belgium

Belgium spent 88 minutes in Los Angeles proving they belonged in this quarter-final, and then the tournament's most reliable late arrival took two touches to prove it did not matter. This covers the strange…

A home World Cup is supposed to build, week by week, towards a night the whole country remembers. For the United States it ended instead on a Monday in Seattle, 4-1 to Belgium, the gap between ambition and…

The World Cup hosts had waited 24 years for a knockout win, and when it finally arrived it came with a plot twist worthy of the wait. This covers the USA's 2-0 victory over Bosnia-Herzegovina in the round of…

With five minutes of normal time left, Senegal led 2-0 and Belgium's World Cup was packing its bags. What followed was what the Associated Press called the biggest comeback of this World Cup so far. This…

Belgium took 23 shots and did not score one of them. This piece looks at how Iran turned a goalless afternoon in Los Angeles into one of their better days at a World Cup, at the goalkeeper who refused to be…

Egypt came agonisingly close to ending a 92-year wait for a first World Cup victory in Seattle, only for Romelu Lukaku to intervene with one of the fastest impacts the tournament has ever seen from a…