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Today, let's break down a crazy comeback fit for the World Cup history books: from a position of two goals down and all but given up for dead, Belgium doggedly clawed back three goals, and in the very last moment of extra time,

beat Senegal three to two with a last-gasp winner, scraping through to the next round.

The sheer swing of this game's plot and the drama of its ending are rare even across the long history of the World Cup.

First, let's look at this Belgium team.

Belgium, long known as the "Red Devils of Europe," are stacked with stars, one of the acknowledged title favorites of this World Cup, clearly superior on paper to their opponents.

Before kickoff, almost everyone believed this would be an easy Belgium win.

Yet the one thing the soccer world never lacks is the unexpected, and Senegal were about to teach everyone a lesson.

This is an African powerhouse full of power and passion — fast, physical, and tireless.

From the start of the game, the rhythm belonged entirely to Senegal.

Their Diarra and Sarr scored one after the other, and not long into the second half had built a suffocating two-goal lead.

Zero to two, Belgium were pushed clean to the edge of the cliff, and the Red Devil fans in the stands fell into a terrible silence.

Everyone assumed this would be another giant of this World Cup crashing out.

Yet a truly strong team is strong precisely because it never concedes before the final whistle.

Entering the closing stage, Belgium launched wave after wave of desperate, all-out attacks.

In the eighty-sixth minute, substitute Lukaku seized a chance in front of goal to pull one crucial goal back for Belgium, making it one to two.

That goal, like a spark, instantly set the whole team alight.

Just three minutes later, in the eighty-ninth, Tielemans once again stood tall, wrenching the score level at two to two and dragging a Belgium already on the cliff's edge back from the brink.

On the strength of those two earth-shattering equalizers, Belgium stubbornly forced the game into extra time.

Across the one hundred and twenty minutes of extra time, both sides fought to exhaustion, neither willing to fall first, the balance refusing to tip.

Just as nearly everyone concluded this war of attrition was destined to be decided on penalties, the most dramatic moment of all arrived.

In the one-hundred-and-twenty-fifth minute, after repeated video review, the referee pointed to the penalty spot, placing a fate-deciding chance in Belgium's hands.

Under almost suffocating pressure, again it was that man Tielemans, who without a flicker of hesitation did it in one go, the ball nestling coolly into the net.

Three to two!

Belgium, at the very, very end, had completed this unbelievable last-gasp winner.

Worth noting: the goal Tielemans scored, in the one-hundred-and-twenty-fifth minute, set the record for the latest goal in World Cup history.

And Belgium became the first team since they themselves in 2018 to turn a knockout tie around from two goals down — and by coincidence, that classic comeback against Japan eight years ago was also three to two.

History, at this moment, repeated itself astonishingly.

From given up for dead to back from the dead, the grit deep in this team's bones seems not to have changed in eight years.

So, how exactly should this game be judged?

For Belgium, this is a stirring win that can be called great.

They proved through their actions a plain but cruel truth: as long as the game isn't over, never underestimate a truly strong team.

That never-give-up spirit bred into the bone, that willingness to draw the sword the more desperate things get — that is their most fearsome weapon.

And for Senegal, this defeat is cruel to the point of being hard to watch.

They did almost everything right, using a near-perfect first half to push the all-conquering Belgium into a corner.

But there's an iron law on the pitch: a lead never equals victory.

When you hold a two-goal advantage yet fail to kill the game off, fate's backlash often comes in a single instant.

Two goals up, then collapsing at the final hurdle — a pain like that takes a very long time to heal.

But their dazzling half of soccer, and their courage to challenge a giant, equally deserve everyone's applause.

That's Belgium three to two Senegal, a game belonging to those who never give up, and to Tielemans.

See you next match.