By Breaking Belize News Staff (HP): The World Cup delivers a Saturday blockbuster, as Norway and England collide in Miami at 3:00 p.m. Belize time, with a place in the semi-finals on the line and the tournament’s most feared striker at centre stage.
All eyes are on Erling Haaland. The Norwegian goal machine sits joint top of the golden boot race with seven goals, alongside Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé, and he arrives fresh from firing the two late strikes that dumped five-time champions Brazil out of the tournament. England know exactly how dangerous he is. So worried are some back in the UK that a travel company jokingly offered Haaland ten free holidays a year for life if he skipped this match. He declined, of course, and the Three Lions must now deal with him the hard way.
England, though, have weapons of their own. Captain Harry Kane sits just one goal behind on six, and Thomas Tuchel’s side showed real character in surviving a 3-2 thriller against Mexico at the hostile Azteca, altitude, storms, noisy fans and all. The numbers make them narrow favourites today, but only just.
Norway are leaving nothing to chance either. The team reportedly changed its Miami hotel just days before the match, a sensible precaution in a tournament where opposing fans have made an art form of keeping teams awake at night.
Both sides know what awaits the winner: a semi-final on Wednesday against either Argentina or Switzerland, and a genuine shot at the final. The loser boards the long flight home.
Giant-killers against a wounded giant. Haaland against Kane. This one has classic written all over it.
So Belize, who takes it at 3:00 p.m., Norway or England? Drop your prediction in the comments.
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By Breaking Belize News Staff (HP): The World Cup delivers a Saturday blockbuster, as Norway and England collide in Miami at 3:00 p.m. Belize time, with a place in the semi-finals on the line and the tournament’s most feared striker at centre stage. All eyes are on Erling Haaland. The Norwegian goal machine sits joint
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