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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Rob Smyth

Belgium 3-2 Senegal (aet): World Cup last 32 – as it happened

Youri Tielemans scores an incredibly late and controversial penalty winner for Belgium!
Youri Tielemans scores an incredibly late and controversial penalty winner for Belgium! Photograph: Agustín Marcarian/Reuters

A seesawing classic of a contest had just ticked into the 122nd ­minute, penalties all but a formality, when the referee, Saíd Martínez, wandered back towards the centre circle to award Belgium a stoppage-time penalty. The VAR, Guillermo Pacheco Larios, had highlighted Lamine Kamara swiping away Youri Tielemans’s left ankle in the seconds before Dodi Lukébakio had skimmed the crossbar. For Belgium, it was a get out of jail card, Tielemans converting the spot-kick to propel Rudi Garcia’s side into the last 16. After 85 minutes, they trailed Senegal 2-0.

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