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When Kane gave England the lead in the 11th minute, knocking in the rebound of John Stones’s header off a corner kick, England looked well on its way to a dominant victory. Uncomfortable heat in the stadium? No problem. Swarms of pesky bugs? No big deal. England had so much of the ball in the first half hour of the game, it seemed as if the Three Lions would be able to win with just a single defender rather than the aggressive three-man setup it used.

But then, battling for a cross on one of Tunisia’s few ventures into England’s half, Kyle Walker put his arm in the face of Tunisia attacker Fakhreddine Ben Youssef. When Ben Youssef hit the turf, the Colombian referee Wilmar Roldán blew his whistle and pointed to the penalty spot. Ferjani Sassi nailed his kick past a diving Jordan Pickford, and the script looked eerily familiar.

“It goes to 1-all and the momentum changes a bit,” Kane said. “It’s always in the back of your mind that it’s going to be one of those days.”

If the World Cup’s substance mostly lies in the conversation that surrounds it, then it appeared that the talk about this match for years would be how England could have possibly have missed so many chances early on to put the game away. In the first minutes, midfielder Dele Alli missed a clear chance from close range. Raheem Sterling couldn’t tap a crossing pass into an open net. Jordan Henderson bounced a header just wide. Later, Alli’s wide-open shot from 12 yards deflected out of bounds. Jesse Lingard’s poke past the charging substitute goalkeeper, Farouk Ben Mustapha, rolled off the post. Stones essentially whiffed on another wide-open shot from 10 yards out.

The second half brought more English dominance. However, emboldened by having survived one of the more lopsided 1-1 first halves in recent World Cup memory, Tunisia’s defenders started closing down the oncoming English attackers, clogging open lanes and clearing free balls out of dangerous areas. But a moment of sloppy ball-handling by Tunisia as regulation time expired gave England a corner kick in stoppage time, and a ball deflected off Harry Maguire toward an open Kane on the back post of the Tunisia goal. Whipping his head, Kane emphatically knocked the ball into the net.