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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Dominic Booth

San Marino, Football Daily’s favourite underdogs, have actually won a game

VAR makes itself useful by disallowing Liechtenstein’s opening goal in their 1-0 defeat to San Marino.
VAR makes itself useful by disallowing Liechtenstein’s opening goal in their 1-0 defeat to San Marino. Photograph: DeFodi Images/Getty Images

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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, keep toiling for 34 years, and try again. In another 23 years such a statement might be apt for a still-title-searching Manchester United as they conduct yet another cultural reset, presumably under a bespectacled 52-year-old Bruno Fernandes, but for now let it apply to San Marino, population circa 34,000 and Football Daily’s favourite underdogs. Shout it from the rooftops: the team ranked 210th and last in the Fifa world rankings have won a competitive football match for the first time in their history, beating 199th-ranked, lofty Liechtenstein 1-0 in a Nations League doozy on Thursday night. Dreamland.

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