Three at the break. The away end at Wembley went silent in the way the away end at Wembley goes silent when the away end has been told the away end is going home in a hundred-something minutes.
I did not say much in the dressing room.
Same shape. Same plan. Mateo and Rúben do not stop carrying. Eze finds the channel. Michael and Wilf find the second touch. Christopher off at sixty-five for Pato. Aviero for Eze at seventy-five. McArthur for Mateo at eighty if we are still in control.
Mateo drank his water in three swallows.
Rúben sat on the bench with his eyes closed for the four minutes between the talk and the bell.
Christopher Benteke patted Mateo on the shoulder on the way out. Mateo did not look up. Did not need to.
The bell went.
We went back out.
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The fourth came from a counter.
