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Fortune favours Kamada as Japan rescue World Cup draw with Netherlands
The World Cup continues to produce the unexpected. On a throbbingly hot afternoon in the low flat plains outside Dallas the Netherlands and Japan played out a high-grade, ultimately thrilling Group F game, Daichi Kamada scoring an 89th-minute equaliser to make it 2-2 just as the Dutch looked like taking an early hold on one of the tougher groups.
TL;DR
- The Netherlands and Japan drew 2-2 in a thrilling World Cup Group F match in Dallas.
- Daichi Kamada scored a late equalizer for Japan in the 89th minute.
- The game was played in a hot afternoon at the Dallas Stadium.
- The Netherlands initially took the lead in the second half after Virgil van Dijk scored.
- Crysencio Summerville had given the Netherlands a 2-1 lead.
- Japan's equalizer came from a deflected shot by Keito Nakamura.
- The draw leaves Group F wide open.
- The article suggests the World Cup is a "strangely unbreakable product" and a "reliable macro-distraction."