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Belgium's pre-tournament fracture meets Spain's set-piece machine: a quarter-final the World Cup didn't script
Belgium arrive at the World Cup quarter-finals in Hartford wounded by an internal revolt, while Spain bring the form chart and a set-piece game that has chewed through three opponents. Garcia has spent the week arguing Belgium now speak for a nation that suddenly finds itself listening.

How Monexus framed this vs the wire: the live blogs supplied the procedural facts (lineups timings, Garcia's claim, the path through the bracket); this piece reads them against the deeper story of Belgium's cycle and Spain's set-piece dependency rather than against any single match verdict.
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