[Hakimi. CA 149 to 154 since May, PA 178]
[En-Nesyri. Composure 15 to 16]
[S. Amrabat. Stamina 17 to 18, Form 15]
A tournament does that. It forges them week on week, faster than any season ever could. The whole world had noticed what was happening to these players. Only I had it in numbers, and the numbers were climbing.
Elena's cameras had caught near everything out here. The dressing rooms, the flights, the old man on the boards at Kaliningrad. Every frame of my life for 6 weeks.
Except the one thing in it no lens will ever see. I blinked the panel away, drank the cold coffee, and watched my full-back laugh at a nutmeg like the whole world wasn't circling him.
And the worst of it, the thing that had me grinding my teeth the whole session, was that he was right there in front of me.
