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#6 2018 World Cup Round of 16: Belgium 3-2 Japan
Recency bias can often cloud our understanding of games and their importance. Even then, Belgium vs Japan featured one of the best comebacks in World Cup history. Only three other teams have ever come back from a 2-0 deficit to win a World Cup knockout game and two of those comebacks rank above this one in the list.
It was a game that had everything: an outstanding first-half defensive performance by Japan, a clinical finish by Genki Hamaguchi to put the underdogs ahead, one of the goals of the tournament from Takashi Inui, Belgium’s captain Eden Hazard missing several chances, a supreme header by Jan Vertonghen, a classic Marouane Fellaini equalizer and the perfect counter-attack displaying the industriousness of Kevin De Bruyne, the crossing of Thomas Meunier, the intelligence of Romelu Lukaku and the composure of Nacer Chadli. What else is there to say?
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