Atlanta —
Often in life, moments pass us by without even the tiniest handhold to latch onto. Before we know it, they’re gone, and we’re left wishing we’d savored them just a little bit more.
And then sometimes, there are moments you can see before they happen. Moments when you’re able to process their meaning, their greatness, in the nanoseconds before they become reality. A moment when life grants you the ability to fully exist in the spectacular and soak it in.
For the overwhelming majority of the more than 68,000 fans at Mercedez-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Tuesday, that moment came when Lautaro Martínez slowed down on the right wing of Argentina’s attack, sized up the scene in front of him and hit a cross.
It’s so cliché, but clichés exist for a reason: It played out like slow motion. The ball floated toward the box, over Egypt’s Yasser Ibrahim and toward the head of Enzo Fernández.
