‘I can’t describe how disappointed and saddened we are’: Saudi players dismayed by World Cup exit

HOUSTON: Before the team buses had arrived at the NRG Stadium on Friday night, local media had billed Houston as Saudi Arabia’s “home away from home,” a city with deep economic, educational and cultural ties to the Kingdom. Yet by full-time, as the white-shirted Saudis lay prostrate after crashing out of the World Cup at the group stage for a sixth successive time, there was no doubting where the neutrals’ sympathies lay. World Cup debutants Cape Verde knew they might need only a draw to prolong their remarkable journey and progress to the Round of 32.

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