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Argentina Wins But To Cape Verde, Thank You: 5 Takeaways From A World Cup Classic

We were two fingertips away from the greatest upset in the history of the World Cup.Sit with that for a moment. Cape Verde, ten specks of volcanic rock in the Atlantic with fewer people than Tuscon, took the world champions, the No. 1 ranked team on the planet, the winners of the last World Cup, to the 111th minute of a knockout game. They equalized once in regulation. Then they equalized AGAIN in extra time with a world-class curler into the top corner that turned Miami into a madhouse and had the entire planet screaming at its television. Argentina survived on a set piece with nine minutes o...