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AS editor Alfredo Relaño takes stock of VAR after 48 games at the World Cup, and says it has been more successful than he had expected it to be.

Having finished up with an identical record to Senegal in Group H, Japan go through to the last 16 by virtue of having picked up two bookings fewer.

Ramos, Busquets and Isco back for the dress rehearsal that awaits us in the city of Krasnodar, within a fantastic stadium which was described to me as 'a futuristic Roman circus'.

If Carvajal is finally ruled out, the most likely replacement is Rodri, a central midfielder, not a defender.