Ecuador's Valencia denied first-half hat-trick by VAR
AL-BAYT STADIUM (Al Khor): Sometimes, to exhale, you blow steam. Qatar was breathing fire. Throwing up happy, friendly flames as it finally was able to show the world all that it had been dreaming, designing and quietly working away for all these years of doubt from the western world. It was as if they were shaking off all the derision, like you'd flick off the desert sand that blows in these parts and settles on your being, then continue to move forward. It was that kind of feeling. You could not escape it.
