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Unbeaten and second, Brazil next: how the world read Japan's 1-1 with Sweden

Daizen Maeda put Japan in front, Anthony Elanga curled Sweden level six minutes later, and the 1-1 sent both teams into the last 32. But the sentence each country built around that scoreline split sharply: Sweden wrote relief and a goalscorer who didn't know he was through, England wrote the beauty of Elanga's strike, Brazil wrote a wary favourite, and almost everyone's gaze had already moved to Japan-Brazil in Houston. Eight voices, in the original and in translation.