Niclas Füllkrug suddenly took his smartphone out of his pocket. “I can show you a picture,” said the substitute striker to a bewildered journalist. The journalist had asked him in English whether the goal that made it 1-0 was actually a legal goal. The reason for the doubt was that Ilkay Gündogan, the provider, had been very resolute in his assertion against the Hungarian defender Willi Orban when the goal was created. Hungary’s coach Marco Rossi had previously complained bitterly about the scene, but Füllkrug then held up the screen of his phone with a photo of evidence that, in his view, completely exonerated him. “What do you think about that?” he asked challengingly.
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