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LOS ANGELES - If football is a game of moments, Mikel Merino is currently living in a permanent state of déjà vu, and every single repetition is more absurd than the last. Spain’s latest comeback hero entered the pitch with the clock showing 85 minutes and 32 seconds. By 87:27, he had already scored. Pau Cubarsí’s shot was spilled by Belgium substitute goalkeeper Senne Lammens, and Merino - who had been on the pitch for one minute and 56 seconds - pounced, smashing the rebound into the net. His 88th-minute winner completed a 2-1 quarter-final victory and sent Spain into...