MELBOURNE, Australia — This metropolis down south and the big country around it fretted early Monday night over the specter of a party long planned but about to go jarringly discontinued, in a world where discontinued parties count as bummers, particularly here.
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Then Australia’s Matildas brought their urgency and the know-how they seemed to have misplaced to the cuddly little 27,000-strong soccer stadium in Melbourne’s stadium cluster, and the World Cup party of a host nation corralled the best element a party can take on: sustenance.