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Today let's talk about a stirring World Cup group game: Algeria drew Austria three to three.

Six goals across the match, the score tugged back and forth, with two of them coming in stoppage time — your blood pressure rose and fell right along with it, arguably one of the craziest games of this group stage.

First, let's lay out the things to watch.

The two teams went back and forth; the moment one took the lead, the other bit right back to level, like two people arm-wrestling, neither willing to ease off.

And the two most dramatic moments were both saved for the final stoppage time — those extra minutes added beyond the ninety.

Let's follow the game.

After kickoff, Austria struck first.

Their veteran striker Arnautović broke through first, one to zero.

As the first half was drawing to a close, Algeria's Belghali leveled it, one to one, pulling the game back to square one.

In the second half, Austria's Sabitzer scored again, two to one, Austria leading for the second time.

But before long, Algeria's marquee star Mahrez stepped up too, leveling it, two to two.

By this point the game was thrilling enough, but the real climax was still to come.

The match entered stoppage time, and everyone felt it would probably end in a draw.

Yet right at that moment, Mahrez came again — in the ninety-somethingth minute, he scored his second of the match, three to two, Algeria completing the turnaround!

The Algeria fans erupted in an instant, victory seemingly within reach.

However, the thing soccer never lacks is the unexpected.

At the very last moment of the match, Austria's Kalajdžić scored too, three to three!

This was almost the last kick of the game; Austria forcibly grabbed a point back from the cliff's edge.

The final whistle blew, the score fixed at three to three, each side taking a point.

Why did this game produce so many goals, and such a crazy stoppage time?

The logic actually isn't complicated.

Both teams took advancing very seriously, neither content to settle for a draw, so the moment they fell behind, they pushed up desperately to attack.

But when you push up and gamble everything, your back line naturally opens up, and the opponent finds it easier to hit you.

So a chain reaction of "I score one, you score one" forms, the game gets more and more open, and goals naturally pile up.

By stoppage time, both sides' stamina is at its limit and focus slips easily — that's when the back line is most prone to gaps, which is also why so many crucial goals come at the final moments.

Today's game played this logic out to the extreme.

How to judge this game?

First, it's a game belonging to attack and to courage.

Neither team played conservatively for safety; instead they opened up and traded blows, which is what gave us a feast of six goals.

Algeria fell behind twice, leveled twice, and even led once at the end, showing tremendous tenacity;

and their biggest hero was undoubtedly the brace-scoring Mahrez — stepping up again and again at key moments, which is exactly the value of a top star.

Austria was equally tenacious, leveling at the very last second, not letting themselves go home empty-handed — that never-give-up spirit deserves respect too.

Now a word on the weight of this point.

This was the final group round, both teams fighting for a place to advance.

The eventual draw meant very different things to the two: Algeria, on this point, squeaked through, grabbing the ticket to the next round;

while Austria, though they fought to the very last moment, fell just short in the end, missing out on going further.

The same three to three: on one side the relief of survival, on the other the rue of falling short.

Soccer's cruelty and romance, staged side by side in the very same game.

That's Algeria three to three Austria — a long-unforgettable goal-fest.