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Master TV and a tactic missed?

Just watched some lichess master TV. I think a good tactic on move 16. would have been Knight from d4xc6. If pawn took back, then Qxd6, attacking rook simultaneously with a double attack on the Knight on c5.

It would be materially losing. The rook escapes by capturing on b2, and the knight is just a trade; Bxc5 Nxc5 with the queens staring at each other, and if you try to take the second knight with the queen, then Bd4+ forks king and queen with black's queen backing it up. The c3 knight is in trouble, and both of black's bishops are improved.
Ah yes, sneeky @Sarg0n said in #4:
> The Rb8 is protected so Nxc6 bxc6 Qxd6 Bf8 and now what?

I know I miscalculated. I was a bit tired when I wrote this.

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