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The Knowledge has dropped, to answer the question of high-scoring non-Golden Boot winners.

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Another manager leaving his job is Ecuador’s dashing Sebastian Beccacece, whose contract was up anyway, per Reuters. “I don’t think we ⁠were able to achieve the feat we promised: to make this the best World ​Cup ever. Today it’s my by Mexico.

“That’s why I have to leave. ‌I would have liked to continue because what I received from the players and the management warranted the possibility of continuing. But I understand how this works and it hurts, but I think the decision was clear.“

“We were outplayed in the first half. We fought back, but we couldn’t find the goal that would have given us a boost.

“I have no ​complaints, only gratitude to the people and the players,” he said. “I received so much gratitude and affection from the bottom of my heart. The boys gave me two beautiful hours after the match and that’s what we’re left with.“

Koeman quits. The other big news from late-on yesterday was the resignation of Ronald Koeman as the Netherlands manager. Having initially struck a defiant tone in the aftermath of his side’s elimination by Morocco on Monday, the 68-year-old announced his departure late on Tuesday.

“Last night I took the decision to end my stint as head coach of the Dutch national team,” Koeman said in a statement on Instagram. “We all shared the dream of making history at this World Cup, but we fell short. No one is more disappointed by that than I am. As head coach, the responsibility ultimately rests with me”.

Depressingly, the Dutch exit was also followed by racist abuse aimed at the players who missed spot-kicks during the shootout in Monterrey. Justin Kluivert, Quinten ​Timber and Crysencio Summerville were subjected to discriminatory, racist and hateful comments ​on social media. “We find ‌this appalling, and we will file a case with Meld Online ‌Discriminatie [Report Online Discrimination],” read a KNVB statement. “Once a report is filed, their legal staff assess whether the statement constitutes a punishable offence. This can lead to a formal complaint being lodged with the public prosecution service, which may then initiate a ‌criminal investigation.”

Preamble

Hello everyone, and welcome to day 21, after a day that reminded you why you fell in love with the World Cup (for all the malevolent forces that attach themselves to it) as a young kid. Many of us were young kids when France last dazzled on the global stage the way they are currently doing, back in their Platini-Tigana-Giresse pomp four decades ago. To that level of flair this current France are adding a ruthlessness and efficiency that has everyone proclaiming them as favourites, and all of it was in evidence in New York as Sweden were swatted aside, Kylian Mbappé scoring two more and Michael Olise, player of the tournament so far for my money, conducting everything artfully just behind him.

And then Mexico overwhelmed Ecuador at a stormy Azteca on an occasion that can best be described as proper, on and off the pitch. A raucous, engaged partisan crowd of the type we’ve not seen enough of cheering on the co-hosts, who showed no sign of their customary knockout round jitters to set up a meeting with the Democratic Republic of Congo or England.

Ah England. There’s an air of angst around them too after unconvincing performances against Ghana and Panama, and a sprightly DRC will pose new challenges. We’ll have all the buildup to the last 32 tie in Atlanta, the first of today’s matches at 5pm BST/12noon local.

Anyway, mail us your thoughts and in the meantime here’s yesterday’s match reports: