Joe: I’m still thinking about that 2-2 draw in Hamburg back at Euro 2024. Talk about a glitch in the simulation. Albania gets that early header from Laci, and then the second half turns into absolute chaos.

Dua Lipa: I remember the atmosphere was electric. Hamburg was basically half checkered shirts and half red-and-black. But that ending… it was like a movie script.

Joe: Exactly. Kramarić scores on his birthday to level it, and then two minutes later, Gjasula accidentally redirects the ball into his own net. You’d think the story’s over, right? Croatia’s got it in the bag. But the Grand Architect had a different ending for that one.

Dua Lipa: Gjasula really went from villain to hero in about fifteen minutes. Scoring the equalizer in the 95th minute to save the point for Albania—I’ve never seen a redemption arc that fast on a pitch.

Joe: It was pure will. People call it luck, but that’s the free will I was talking about. Albania refused to let the game die. Croatia had the control, but Albania had the spirit of the Levant in them that day. It left both teams in a tough spot for the group, but as a match? It was one for the history books.

Dua Lipa: It makes me wonder if that’s why we love it so much—it’s the one thing you can’t program or clone. That 95th-minute moment was pure, unscripted human data.