A Game Of Inches: 4 Takeaways From A Dizzying Iran-Egypt Draw

For about 20 seconds in Seattle, Iran had won their World Cup. Shoja Khalilzadeh bundled in a stoppage-time winner, the bench was halfway onto the pitch, and Team Melli were through. Then VAR drew its lines, and the celebration got erased by the width of a sleeve. Final score: Egypt 1, Iran 1. 

Mahmoud Saber put Egypt ahead inside five minutes, Ramin Rezaeian leveled it from an angle that shouldn't exist, and the rest of the night belonged to the goal that didn't count.

Here are my...