[23'.]
Bruno Fernandes had been quiet for nine minutes. He was not quiet now.
He took a pass off Acuña on the halfway line. One touch with the outside of his right. Looked up.
The pass through Mili.
I had watched a hundred passes like it on Friday morning at Beckenham. The tape had not made me sit up. The tape had been a flat thing.
The pass in the air at Selhurst on a Thursday night with Mili reacting half a second late was a different thing.
The ball went through the gap between Mili and Mateo. Bas Dost ran on. Wayne came out.
CRACK.
Bas Dost hit the post. The ball came back across the six-yard line and Aaron cleared it into the Arthur Wait.
Wilf hit their post in the twenty-eighth from the angle. Crack. Their keeper got a hand to it.
Thirty-first minute Bruno Fernandes had the ball thirty yards out. He took two touches to set it. Right foot.
Crack.
The ball bent in the air. Wayne did not see it until late.
Wayne's post.
