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“It was the best goal of my career,” Lozano said sheepishly afterward. After a quick blur of forward passes, Lozano, potentially one of the tournament’s breakout stars, sprinted into the box to latch onto the final diagonal pass, cut inside, hopscotched over a defender’s outstretched leg and buried the ball inside the left post. It was Mexico’s dogged collaborative defending that produced the midfield turnover that would become the game’s only goal.
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They booed and hissed the German players whenever they gained possession of the ball. They shouted “Ole!” from the game’s opening passes. Their fans responded to the team’s vigor with bursts of their own, forming a regenerating cycle of energy. To the final whistle, they kept dashing recklessly down the wings. They ran daringly in and out of passing lanes, wove multilayered combinations, and pinged the ball with confidence and intent. Its players defended in twos and sometimes threes, and when they won the ball they charged forward as a group, like sprinters at a track meet.
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It was, in some ways, a wildly irreverent game plan that Mexico employed.