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Everything about Houston feels oversized. NRG Stadium, home of the Houston Texans, sits in a city known as “Space City”, which feels fitting for a game where both teams were trying to find a bit more lift than they managed in their opening matches. Over 72,000 were inside the ground, over two million across the city, and somehow still enough room to fit San Francisco, Boston and New York inside it by area. Space, everywhere. On the pitch, though, there was likely to be less o

Everything about this felt slightly off from the start. AT&T Stadium, Jerry World, home of the Dallas Cowboys, has that polished, almost artificial feel to it, and the game kind of matched. A big stage, a controlled environment, but a matchup that always looked like it might be more awkward than it first appeared. The Netherlands came in with the profile you’d expect: experience, physicality, a heavy Premier League influence, with nine of the starting eleven tied to England.