Sixty-four seconds. That is all it took for Matias Galarza to lash a 25-yard rocket past Türkiye and record the fastest goal of the tournament, and somehow that was the calmest moment of Paraguay's night. Because shortly before half-time Miguel Almiron got himself sent off, leaving Paraguay to defend a one-goal lead with ten men for forty-five minutes plus stoppage, and they did it with the serenity of a team that simply refused to panic.

Türkiye, meanwhile, authored one of the most spectacular failures you will ever see. They huffed, they crossed, they shot, and shot, and shot. Across two games they piled up 62 attempts and scored a grand total of nothing, the most efforts without a goal in any two-match span in the competition's history. That is not bad luck. That is a finishing problem so profound it deserves its own documentary.

Vincenzo Montella's side are out, eliminated after back-to-back defeats, and the cruelty is that they were not even bad, just allergic to the goal. Paraguay, down a man and up a goal, defended like their lives depended on it and walk away with a famous win. Sometimes football rewards the brave. Sometimes it just rewards the team that put one in the net.