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The first real chance came in the sixty-ninth minute. Demien received in the right half-space with a Ukraine defender stepping out to him and another shutting the lane into Kane, the wall closing in front of him.
He didn't dribble into it. His Andrea Pirlo's Deep-Lying Playmaker vision opened the picture instead — Saka pinned wide, Kane dropping a step short, Bellingham starting a run through the inside channel before anyone tracked it.
Rather than forcing the obvious through ball into the crowd, he rolled it into Kane's feet with his 88 Short Passing weighting it perfectly, and Kane cushioned it back first-time into the channel Bellingham was already attacking. Bellingham took one touch and struck it low — thwack — forcing the Ukraine keeper to fling himself down to his near post and parry it behind.
The Wembley crowd came up off their seats with a roar, the first real surge of belief all night, because England had finally cut through rather than circled.
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