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Because g4 is played to drive Bishop away from protecting e6. Idea is to sacrifice Nxf7.
If Bh7, Nxf7 gives a white three pawns for the piece and a good attack.
Yet another example where the objectively „best“ defense seems to be very cooperative. Simply giving up a piece would hardly any human do.

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