48 Crash - FIFA World Cup 2026

Of course we'll need a thread.

Such a bleak World Cup but I'm still p excited for it just because it's the World Cup.

that about sums it up. can't even pretend i'm gonna tune it out.

the level of "greetings fellow soccer fans" hype from advertisers and TV stations feels extra cringe this year but maybe that's just me

Yeah it's all p weird. I wish there more daytime games also, obviously that's more a gripe with football rather than every other bad thing.

Games I'm particularly looking forward to in group phase are Ecuador Germany and Scotland Brazil. Scotland Brazil feels so set up for "a famous night" for Scotland.

i don't remember the schedule being so bad in previous USA and Mexico tournaments, I assume this is another innovation of the moneyball era but maybe my memory's just shit. gonna miss a lot of group games which makes me v sad

https://i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk/article37218975.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200c/0_IRN-BRU-are-set-to-reveal-a-completed-John-McGinn-mural-in-the-coming-daysjpeg.jpg

HE'S READY

to come home at the end of the group stage and get a good rest and a productive pre-season

haha naw but there'll be a lot of folk watching them with great interest and hopefully they can give em something to cheer about

This was the thread

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=1078909029&threadid=116760

Probably good not to use it as it has that awful fucking song at the top, however idk maybe listening to that awful fucking song will get us all in the correct mood.

i made a conscious decision to start with a clean slate

If only we could do the same for the world cup

It is once again v hard not to think Spain will go all the way. But Argentina to retain may be just as likely. Surely it's time for France to really fuck up again.

Definitely gonna be a bit weird waking up in the morning and checking what happened overnight but also a bit of a relief now it's this big.

Harder than usual to predict a surprise pacakage too - too many contenders and permutations.

Love the idea of Mexico winning not just one knockout game (unless it's v England tho would still rather go out to them than anyone else). Just beating a team of the same or better quality in the knockout would be momentous.

USA look pretty chaotic but the potential to surpass expectations is there.

https://i.postimg.cc/dVPX26Lq/IMG-0746.jpg

He’s ready (pending outcome of an MRI).

Although they have no midfield, I think Brazil could do ok this time.

Türkiye could have a good run. Mexico v South Africa has potential to be a great opener.

Not expecting it to be as even as their 2010 opener really but will admit I'm probably under-rating all the African sides (tho on their current form Panama could beat Ghana) and will be glad to be wrong.

I got Curaçao and Tunisia in the work sweepstake

I have invested a choice £20 on an accumulator on all the games against teams like Qatar, Curacao and New Zealand that could earn me a couple grand. Of course upsets happen but some of the disparities in quality seem massive.

one of the best bits of a World Cup is when those disparities suddenly evaporate tbh

New Zealand were the only unbeaten team at the World Cup in 2010, iirc!

Kinda want Iran to spank them ngl

haha naw but there'll be a lot of folk watching them with great interest and hopefully they can give em something to cheer about

Any team that brings Hanley, Souttar, McKenna and Ralston to a World Cup is on a hiding to nothing.

Kind of want to see chaos on par with the French Open men's tennis championships. We are surely guaranteed that in the US, but also what the heat (or heavy rains?!) will bring to the competition.

Must be awesome if your country is playing in Canada (or especially) Mexico.

And yeah like many I am sad not to be able to watch every single game.

Really want to see a new winner.

Reading some of the previews.

In The Guardian there is this weird bit on "What to expect from Fans" and reads stupid

What to expect from the fans
Czech supporters are unlikely to travel in big numbers in the same way as, say, England, Argentina or Mexico, but those who do are usually passionate, loud and heavily beer-fuelled (but not in a violent way). They traditionally sing simple chants such as “Cesi do toho!” (“Come on, Czechs!”) and create a friendly atmosphere mixed with self-deprecation and dark humour. Violence is very rare around the national team compared with club football. Just reaching the World Cup was worthy of heavy celebration and not many fans will have the financial resources to travel to the US and Mexico. The ones who make it, though, will not be quiet.

I was in Prague during the 2004 Euros (where they were briefly favourites) and this does not ring true at all, sadly the national team shared the support of the racist skinheads with Sparta.

Relationship with the US/Trump
In his first term as president, Trump often talked about Korea. His pursuit of a Nobel peace prize made him surprisingly amicable toward the then-leaders of the North and South, earning him a peculiar brand of popularity in Seoul. His second term, however, has struck a different chord. A public once intrigued is now fatigued by a tenure defined by tariffs and erratic foreign policy. Reports suggesting his administration pushed for Italy to replace Iran in the World Cup have only cemented his image as a reckless disruptor in the eyes of the Korean public

There is also this bit where every country's relationship with the Trump admin is evaluated.

xp yeah I am sure there will be many funniest/inaccuracies

Iraqi footballer Aymen Hussein issued a statement after being detained and questioned for seven hours upon entering the United States:

“If America is so hostile towards foreign nationals, why is it hosting the #2026WorldCup?”

move all the US-based games to Canada and Mexico imo

If the US had an ok team and it's performance could impact in the polls the government might have engineered a win.

The USA have blocked the Somali Referee Omar Artan from entering the USA, the Referee who is rated the best in Africa was blocked at entry, so he got the Somalian embassy to give him a Diplomatic Passport.

But the USA still refuses to let him in.

The USA need to be disqualified pic.twitter.com/GFjX2I4vLu

— BladeoftheSun (@BladeoftheS) June 8, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7340272/2026/06/07/kansas-city-shooting-england-world-cup-base/

Sorry this is the US Pol thread until we start kicking a ball about

BREAKING: Spain football star Yamal may not be at start of Spain’s World Cup match due to US Visa issues.

Natanyahu has personally requested for Yamal not to be allowed into the US 🇺🇸 as he was seen holding Palestinian flag 🇵🇸 during a celebration. pic.twitter.com/ZIWT8RXARS

— HODAN HOMES (@HodanHomes) June 9, 2026

Hopefully it's bollocks

That can't be true.

think he's got an injury for first two games
presume he's in USA already tho?

It's a spoof, come on

What has happened at the #2026WorldCup over the last 48 hours:

• Swiss footballer Embolo's visa was put under review and he was only able to join his team days later.

• Iraqi national team player Aymen Hussein was held for questioning for nearly 7 hours upon entering the United States.

• The Iranian national team spent days dealing with visa procedures at the U.S. Consulate in Türkiye. The U.S. only allowed them entry on match days. Fifteen members of the delegation were denied visas.

• Omar Abdulkadir Artan, named CAF's Best African Referee of 2025, was denied a visa. Despite travelling to the U.S. with a diplomatic passport, he was refused entry and sent back. FIFA announced that he will not be able to officiate at the tournament.

• The South African national team arrived in the United States much later than planned because part of the delegation was not granted visas.

• Members of the Senegal national team staff were forced to remove their shoes and subjected to lengthy searches, sparking accusations of racism.

• The Uzbekistan national team was searched with bomb-sniffing dogs and the footage went viral in international media.

• Some Scottish supporters, despite being eligible to enter the U.S. visa-free under the ESTA programme, had their travel authorisations revoked just days before departure.

• Many supporters who had already bought tickets and booked accommodation had their visa applications rejected, resulting in financial losses.

This is a little summary.

Any foreigner has to be crazy to travel to the US under any circumstances unless there's some critical personal issue, and the WC wouldn't fall under that.

i'm sure FIFA will take strong action

Some Scottish supporters, despite being eligible to enter the U.S. visa-free under the ESTA programme, had their travel authorisations revoked just days before departure.

What's this all about though?

wondering if it's a social media history check thing

https://www.readthemaple.com/canada-silent-as-american-authorities-throw-world-cup-into-chaos/

Canada, one of the tournament co-hosts, has not issued any official statement regarding the latest interruptions.

In April, Canadian border staff turned away Iranian footballing officials, forcing them to miss the pre-tournament FIFA Congress in Vancouver. Palestinian football officials also had difficulties obtaining Canadian visas for the conference.

I mean, Amnesty International is warning people not to travel to the US

bbc is ready

Who will win the 2026 World Cup? Total votes

France (9): Scott Brown, Gael Clichy, Rachel Corsie, Olivier Giroud, Danny Murphy, Paul Robinson, Tony Pulis, Alan Shearer & Chris Sutton

England (7): Thomas Frank, Joe Hart, Steph Houghton, Martin Keown, Wayne Rooney, Sue Smith & Ellen White

Spain (1): Micah Richards

Expert opinions there.

Joe Hart: England. But I am not actually that bothered whether I am right or wrong. I just like to back my people and I want England to do it.

we are paying for this guy to say this stuff.

He's breaking down the facade of BBC impartiality

does anyone here think england will win it?

who is our joe hart?

That'll be me. Scotland will win the World Cup.

You'll really shake them up when you win the World Cup

Scotland is the greatest football team so QED.

there's been some weird journalism from the BBC the last few days as football reporters are apparently discovering for the first time that

- football is a team sport
- you can only have 11 people in a team at the same time

pundits explaining this to their audience like they've discovered some arcane and puzzling mystery

The coverage is so patronising, like I feel they deeply underestimate the knowledge and intelligence of their audience, even accepting that it's a wide range of people and interest levels.

weren't you complaining about them doing exactly that more than a decade ago when you were an insider, this is just what they've been for ages

Mick McCarthy it can't get any worse it can gif

I think the coverage is probably worse for big tournaments for several reasons including an assumption about the audience being more casual, but I'm hearing this during standard football reporting, incredulously questioning Tuchel on why his 15 starters aren't all starting etc

I don't think England will win it but I think they can...same confidence level as four years ago and er....2006 lol.

Japan beat Germany and Spain in the groups four years ago. Really like to see them go far

this is also amazing.

Joe Hart: I am not really a lover of dark horses. When it comes to any tie I always want the main team to win, and it will be a pretty similar feeling when I watch this tournament.

the main team

lol thats crazy

would love to dig into it a bit like how he felt when france weren't 'the main team'

That might explain some of his performances in Europe for Celtic

main team syndrome

he just loves the unplucky overdogs

what does he feel if watching a game with no top seed in it? perhaps a stupid question.

That's really bizarre. Surely one of the greatest pleasures of World Cups is seeing a South Korea or a Japan beating an established nation.

xp guessing he just makes a snap judgement on which team looks more heteronormative and goes for them

I can see Japan getting three draws and then stuck with France or Brazil in the round of 32 but hope Hart is not given such satisfaction.

Meanwhile FIFA cunts wouldn't even reassign the Somalian ref to matches only in Canada or Mexico? Disgrace.

Yeah they deserve as much or really more blame for this than the cuntish US gov

yeah its interesting that planned international travel is way below expectation not just in the us but for canada and mexico too

This is nice.

🗣️ “I want to say thank you to Algeria for choosing Lawrence, Kansas.” 🇺🇸

The locals in USA are all getting behind Algeria. 🇩🇿 pic.twitter.com/e2kejLtxjb

— Dean Ammi (@AlgerianFooty) June 8, 2026

https://www.theringer.com/2026/06/10/soccer/world-cup-2026-fifa-donald-trump-gianni-infantino-united-states

How do you stage a tournament while attacking the very basis of its existence, morally and also physically? Welcome to our celebration of openness and international friendship, which we hate! All visitors are welcome here, except the ones we arbitrarily throw into prison, which probably won’t be you, but maybe! Please write your credit card number on this form. How can you stage an event when you can’t even be bothered to conceal that this is your attitude toward it?,

Haven't seen this World Cup visa denial story circulating yet. Moroccan player Zakaria El Ouahdi, who plays in Belgium's top division, was initially denied a US visa on the basis that his father has what authorities deemed a suspicious beard pic.twitter.com/yEuGZI2lrE

— Nate Bear (@NateB_Panic) June 10, 2026

also was looking at what looked like a pic of dozens of armed paramilitary thugs tackling a pitch invader during a friendly. This needs to be cancelled and relocated ASAP

My view on this tournament is i fucking hate my country right now and I have zero excitement for this anymore.

The athletes and the other nations who are being treated like shit are not to blame for our fucking shit and as such I cheer for them but I'm so fuckin dreading what else the current administration is going to pull at this tournament

Facial profiling, god bless the USA

The foreign players and officials with work visas who come here the rest of the year to play/officiate in MLS and other tournaments here don't even seem to go through this shit this bad, it's just extra performative cruelty

the Nazis even toned down the racism for the ’36 olympics

You can't go in together
With suspicious beard

Lol

As mentioned on the podcast — the funniest commentary moment of all time.

Mark Saggers, TalkSport, 2010. https://t.co/FTXCNEBgwZ pic.twitter.com/NumtARsQnR

— WhoRemembersPod (@whorememberspod) June 11, 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/11/omar-artan-scandal-gianni-infantino-donald-trump-world-cup

Perhaps you still regard sporting spectacle as your cherished escape from politics. In which case enjoy your World Cup of games split into four quarters, decimated by heat and exhaustion, compromised by an unfair qualification process. Enjoy your largely meaningless group stage, the thousands of empty seats, the masked police standing guard just at the edge of shot, the long lingering shots of Infantino and JD Vance in the stands.

It could be really bad, but Qatar might've been a disaster and it turned out to be p good..

apart from the construction worker deaths

Talking about the football.

All of these global tournaments are insane in scale from what they started as..

loving all of this AI-upscaled and colourised archival footage, might just ask Grok to simulate the 2026 final for me and get it over with.

Gonna laugh when Poch's first US World Cup is a 3 and out

i know opening ceremonies are rubbish but rather that than the thoughts of Mark Pougatch

Scores about to be lopsided

bit of Wolves interest to get the tournament started

Nice first opportunity

Come on me bebés

South African defence is flaky af

Oh it's already started, missed it.

Megged the keeper

perfect first goal lol

Mexico are hardly the killer instinct squad of decades past and you could feasibly counter on em but it's gonna take more than Hail Mary through balls

Mexico is just sitting back anticipating these, gotta possess the ball longer before sending runners to at least force the defender to make a decision.

Mexico and RSA two of the great underachieving teams, though on v different levels.

I feel like Mex is gonna leak one

@Neanderthal, you could be right but so far RSA very poor going forward.

RSA goalkeeper is pretty good

As Keano just pointed out he did give the goal away tho

He made a couple of iffy passes before that too. Feel like both of these keepers have a critical mistake in them

I say this every tournament but I can't stand Mark Pougatch.

Absolutely dreadful. At least we don't normally have to see Matterface's face

south africa keeper a bit of a stiff innit

This game is over

people don’t score free kicks anymore. oooo remembers white dog shit, hairy fannies and free kick goals

Theo (11) is very amused by the name Sithole

Sithole more like Sit this one out

Mexico of like 2014 would be up 3-0 by now

Even in a low block they're leaving holes everywhere

(South Africa)

wth at these anti-time wasting rules

I get why they have this refreshment break with all these hot stadiums with no AC and great opportunity for more adverts, but why don't they stop the clock?

The reason they're not effective is that the punishments are all football-specific. Goalie takes more than 9 seconds to take goal kick, automatic corner for other team? Goalie don't care.

Goalie gets smacked in the face with a sock with a padlock in it? Now the game is moving

Fucking camera cuts to Infantino occasionally. Bring back Salma Hayek at least.

why don't they stop the clock?

If they don't stop it for other play stoppages like injuries, why would they do it here?

Typically stoppage time is inflated anyway in matches with drink breaks and we remember how egregious the stoppage was last WC

there was only a few minutes of stoppage time in the first half, despite the refreshment break

This half feels like it’s gone on for about 40 minutes already.

guessing they want to reinforce "no we aren't dividing it into quarters!"

Mexican fans getting restless

First half stoppage is almost always shortchanged compared to second

Raul!

Yeaaaaaaaaa Raul!

Wolves!

Not that many goalies are stopping this at point blank with nobody marking dude but this goalie also has seemingly no ability to make himself bigger

Xpost ay we!

south africa are dung

Ah bless the var ref must have been feeling neglected

Yiiikes

Spirit of Cameroon '90 but evil

Ok who had a bet on two reds?

south africa should get 11 reds for being pish

face of the SA player being told he was getting a red card and not understanding what the referee was saying was pretty funny

Just about dragged myself to the point of being happy that the World Cup was happening, one VAR atrocity seemed to have been enough to put paid to that

Whole stadium including the players directly involved had no idea what was happening or why

Hahahahahaha

Ok who had a bet on two reds?

Three.

lol, what a start.

Lol at beginning tourney with a 3 red affair

well that was a stupid thing to do

bullshit red

Hahahaha. Wow.

How the fuck is that a red?

Still time for a fourth.

not really showing off the best of the sport today

Whole reffing establishment has completely lost the run of itself

Can't be a clear goal scoring opportunity on the basis that we've seen what the South African forwards are like for the last hour and a half

And still time for Infantino to get struck by lightning.

You just got CONCACAFed

Does not bode well for the rest of the tournament tbh.

Almost as many red cards as corners.

is there like a golden boot competition but for refs and red cards?

Ah man this feels like a proper World Cup already

feels flat, off

Appears to be a total lack of atmosphere at this game too.

(xp)

Prop bettors cashing in those +20000 long shots today

do clears really seem to go 10-15% further faster in mex city

must be lack of atmosphere

Think i might have to give the 3am kickoff a miss

Funny because you'd have thought opening in Mexico with Mexico would have set the gold standard for atmosphere. It's all downhill from here

get you all back here at 3am for s.korea v czech republic

Might have to boycott this tournament now

I imagine the fact that no-one but rich people can afford to watch Mexico's games doesn't help.

Czechia for the dour draw

Korea will nick a win I think/hope

The cat woke me up at 3am yesterday so if he does it again I will remember to switch the telly on

Trying to work out what the nadir will be, atmosphere-wise. Got to take into account hot weather, difficult-to-reach stadiums, both sets of fans facing travel difficulties with USA visas, etc.

At a glance, Jordan vs Algeria at Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara on June 22nd looks particularly grim.

Y'all gotta be more positive, everyone was nervous in the opener.

Feel like the cobwebs will be shaken off enough for us to see 4, maybe 5 reds in the next one

that second red on RSA was pretty soft I thought. weird match

it looked soft but he did slap him round the head

You just got CONCACAFed

Looking forward to more of this but it's too bad we only have Panama and no Costa Rica or Honduras around for it

xppp yeah first matches in the group stage always throws up some low excitement stuff, love it

They're always sensitive about possible intentional contact to head, but if that was a red, most MLS matches would finish 8 v 7

it looked soft but he did slap him round the head

30 years ago a child would slap him round the head.

Might start a separate "Pougatch must die" thread

Key differences between the last time we hosted the Cup, we didn't even have a first division league, though we did have a Constitution

I don't remember any 3 in the morning our time kickoffs in 94

"Jordan vs Algeria at Levi's Stadium"

Gonna enjoy finding out what American stadiums are called.

one thing i remember from 94 is a US entrepreneur who was planning to make several changes to the game to get more interest in the sport, including marked zones so you got one point for a goal from the box up to four points for a goal from over the halfway line

That's kinda what Major League Soccer was in its fledging years.

No draws (everything went to PKs), clock counted down, and points were awarded based on some weird formula based on wins plus goals scored

xxp apparently the 49ers play there now, it's a replacement for candlestick park

Xpost Though the PKs weren't from the spot, they were like hockey penalties.

One of the stadiums is called America First stadium but thank God it's not a host stadium

Not MAGA themed, it's named for a credit union formed in 1939

Funniest one I can see is Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens

Funniest thing is there are a bunch of footie-specific stadiums in America because Don Garber requires most MLS teams build them to get a franchise, but most of them only hold 20,000 - 30,000, so most of the stadiums hosting games in the US are American football stadiums that don't actually have association football teams playing in them (Atlanta one exception)

The good thing about a 5 hour gap between matches is now we have ample time to pore over the amazing highlights of that first match

there's a lot of Amapiano-centred banter on Twitter right now :D

Guadalajara crowds seems pro-Korea overall

ha all of peacocks usa copa is in spanish which is good for me but…man i am there for this aspect of coverage in eeuu

whoa Korea

Two Wolves scorers on the first day, I'm guessing that's a first lol

Winning goal by a Brendan Rodgers' reject.

Looked like a good game

real heads* were up for it. south korea were tasty going forward but very vulnerable at the back. CR seemed like a bunch of haramball hoofers

(those with work-related anxiety and insomnia)

Yeah just watched the highlights and lol @ that Czech goal.

Good going forward (such a cool finish for the 1st goal) but they will be undone by the defense.

That's SK ^

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These are some tasty games over the next few days, that I can watch.

13th Brazil Morocco 11pm
14th Netherlands Japan 9pm
15th Ivory Coast Ecuador 12am
16th France Senegal 8pm
17th England Croatia 9pm

CR seemed like a bunch of haramball hoofers

those haramball hoofers couldve been us *cry emoji*

Might take ceremonial shrooms before rooting for Paraguay at 2 in the morning god bless the weekend

Not even sure I'm going to stay up to watch Scotland's first appearance at a World Cup finals since 1998 tbh.

Planning to watch that one, also the weekend

Just getting up whenever Sunday AM and watching the entire match on catch-up without spoilers is my plan.

Im sorry but I can't put myself thru a Rooney/Giroud/Richards triumvurate

Fox has Henry, Zlatan, and Alexi Fucking Lalas, if that sounds better

Well I don't have Sky but no sir, it does not

Anytime Lalas is involved is a less-than

I would rather read subtitles written by a cat than listen to Lalas

Taylor Twellman is bad more in a "settle down and act like you've been here before " sort of way, but I'd prefer him in this instance

I HATED Twellman as a player. As a commentator I think his over exuberance is annoying but his opinions are nowhere near as bad as Lalas.

are there any match recaps on youtube that are not half an hour long? like, say, 10 min? the official FOX ones are all like 25+ minutes each

I think the FIFA recaps are about 10 mins maybe?

Dunno if they're on YouTube tho

Oh shit Canada have got Buble

They're gonna get a doing here right?

Canada seem to be favourites but honestly hard to see why.

On another note, looks like Partey has had his Canadian visa denied.

I guess you can use border controls for good sometimes

Alanis!

Lol i was rushing here to type precisely that

Anyway, come on Bosnia

I feel like Canada in its current incarnation had already peaked even before WC2024.

Their top flight domestic league is also one of the worst in the world, I doubt they could beat most minor league US Teams

(Hilariously, not a single Canadian National Team player plays in the league, the ones that do play in a North American league play in MLS)

do they still pay in beaver pelts? hard to attract the talent

they instituted a bonus scheme paid out in Timbits but it's early to see results yet

My local team's goalie, Maxime Crepeau, is in goal

He's probably not used to being this bored

Fair to say neither of these teams look like they've got much cutting edge

Lotsa empty seats. Decent League 1 mid table match this.

Now that was a chance.

Let’s go Canada is truly the chant of a crowd who have never seen a football game before

Oh Canada.

The hulking giants of Bosnia always gonna give them problems from corners

Lmao.

Gah. As per Czechia.

Luka Jovic’s Wario scores!

Dear God, please give me some kind of selective hearing impairment that only shuts out the sound of Stephen Warnock, kthx

Hydration Breaks are just American advert breaks, right?

I'm sure a bit of I Wanna Dance With Somebody during the hydration break will fire up the home side

Don't think they should be encouraging the Bosnians to jump around tbh

Canada's problem is Jessie Marsch sucks

Marsch pulled this great "thinking" fave after the goal

Face. Not fave ffs

Hydration Breaks are just American advert breaks, right?

― a hoy hoy, Friday, June 12, 2026 3:26 PM bookmarkflaglink

Wasn't this more something FIFA adopted during COVID that stuck around? The US does these during regular season when it gets over a specific temp including humidity

As long as Canada's nucleus of studs is Davies, David, and Larin, they're stuck in the mud. None of em scare anybody outside of CONCACAF

Very smart to make the seats the same color as the teams kits, nobody will know how empty it is

I guess I don’t follow US football. Or care for it having any say in world football xpost

Oof what a miss

Canada pushing hard to go forward, it’s a shame they are pish

They've had cooling breaks at World Cup before (2014). The part i didn't realize is this year's are mandatory and not based on weather.

In 2014 they weren't mandatory, just conditional

@a hoy hoy, I don’t watch much League 1 football but I am definitely prepared to believe this is what it’s like.

Canada, like the US, relies on athleticism more than tactics, only unlike the US, there's a wider gulf between their best and their bench.

Though they're way better than 10-15 years ago

If Canada had anybody who could control a ball they'd be dangerous. My god

Was that Mike Myers?

Mike Myers looking haggard

Haha yes

Show me some men who look like old lesbians!

Was thinking Bosnia will probably just shithouse their way through the rest of the match but tbh they could just let Canada have the ball and there'd be no danger of them scoring

Yeah Bosnia was already living dangerously at the end of the half

Fuck me that Southgate movie looks funny

Zlatan shit-talking Lalas lol

https://i.ibb.co/Pk5w0gy/Screenshot-20260612-160432-Chrome.jpg

Cheeky!

Ooof

Keeper just stood his ground ffs

There's the drama that was missing

stadium looks like a third full what's going on

It was packed to start, I'm guessing slow lines at the beer concessions

Thry both have the right to go for the ball wtf are these announcers yammering about

Xpost They're used to hockey intermission which are 5 minutes longer

this match is missing humor

That would have been a wonderful goal

Unbelievable clearance

Wow

this is amazing

https://bsky.app/profile/xantar.bsky.social/post/3mo4dd7ihw22x

Ugh took too long

Lovely approach play Canada, would've been perfect if Bosnia had gone down the other end and scored that chance

Fucks sake timed out on a throw in

FIFA just fuck right off

Shaffelburg is actually pretty good

A lot of shit 90s football Twitter account vibes off this match.

Lol Canada is even behind on xG

Xpost it's weird, I wouldn't exactly say it's an electric atmosphere being they've been bad for a while, but the average Toronto FC match even has a more electric crowd than this

It's enjoyably cruel how they just can't get that finishing touch

My guess is TFC has fans from a lot of countries that are not Canada contributing to that atmosphere

Come on Bosnia administer the killing blow

Bosnia's undoing will be that their low block isn't paired with cynical shithousery

Cynical shithousery has been outlawed for this tournament, it's a FIFA directive

Im assuming Alphonso Davies is knackered or something btw

Disagree. They're pretty fucking good at it and I predict a lot of their players going down with cramp in the next 20 minutes xps

Aw bless the pitch gets its own hydration break

As usual the stiff US broadcasters kept expressing disbelief that David was subbed off and Shaffelburg came on which is precisely what gave their attack a positive jolt on the left side. Can only presume they barely know who any of these players are

Disagree. They're pretty fucking good at it and I predict a lot of their players going down with cramp in the next 20 minutes xps

― groovypanda, Friday, June 12, 2026 4:32 PM bookmarkflaglink

They don't have Panama's masterclass antics though

Commentator kindly confirms Davies is in fact knackered

We've reached the pinball stage

Xpost lol

Lol Shaffleburg diving

Did one of you say they're not good at cynical shithousery just as their defender dived for a free kick to welcome in the ad break

https://i.postimg.cc/x8k6vxNF/image.png

This is nothing compared to CONCACAF shithousery. The sport is unrecognizable in those matches

Oh my word

Golllllllll

Lovely goal

Larin drinks for free for the rest of his life

Beauty!

Very tidy finish.

He’s limited but such a good player at the right level.

If only he'd had that in his bag of tricks when we had him..excellent finish.

Bosnia needs to remember a draw is a good result now

I don't think Bosnia have got another gear

Maybe something funny is coming

Good goal by Kyle Larinferty tbf.

Kinda feel like a Canada stoppage winner is inevitable

Bosnia just dived twice in 3 seconds

Ok that was a+ shit housing

I was gonna say I hate to see Ryan Reynolds looking happy but he's only got one facial expression

Think that was the chance

A famous 1-1 victory for Canada

Canada's best World Cup result ever

Should be some thrillers in that group.

Jesse Marsch is Ted Lassoing the shit out of it after the game

i could be wrong but in the prem, didn't he used to be a sort of cap and tracksuit type guy? now he looks like crypto entrepreneur.

gap this long between games in the group stage is unacceptable, i'm ready for bed

Yeah part of the fun is just having an hour or two before the next one, 4 is just lame

Ok fox has brought in elmo and cookie monster

C is for cobblers

also the lalas pic upthread cracked me up. what is it that makes competing in intl sport that makes usians need to like fucking go deadwood. yestiday quinn simmons won a dauphiné stage and someone posted

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hope it works i know it won’t tho

also there’s 48 teams i’m expecting first round to be like ncaa hoops where there’s 2-4 games on at the same time where is the coverage density

It gets better after today

Thank god

only quality action from here you say

I didn't say that!

Please never let me hear about Alexi's nether again

Everytime US play Paraguay i think back to the time they were beating them 1-0 in the Copa America, then DeAndre Yedlin came in and got two yellows in 5 minutes and almost blew it for them lol

Please never let me hear about Alexi's nether again

Poch Out

Haha

Prediction...lots of shots, few on target

Hey that was on target

If VAR happens , anybody in the US mute Stu Holden. He is the world's worst Capn Save a VAR

Ouch

Love Freeman. Orlando homegrown player that we just sold this off-season

It's wild too, because of his dad, all kinds of Cheesehead Packer fans are into the national team now

Paraguay really struggling right now

Shoulda been 2, but all our guys have the touch of elephants

Paraguay ahead on xG lol

Automated offside ftw

This could be a rout

Balogun looking good

i think Paraguay's biggest issue is they're struggling to find where Waldo is

This is mostly US athleticism than any real finesse, but Balogun is eating.

Turkiye I feel like will pose a tougher fight but I also wasn't expecting this.

Xpost

Balogun has been v good at Monaco to finish the season

Paraguay just look like the own goal broke their resolve, they had the first real chance, were doing wwell, then after the OG their fullbacks are ball watching and losing runners and the CBs are tripping over their own feet.

I think maybe they expected the US to come out in a diff shape?

Lol VAR of diving now?

Mexican dudes at the pub I'm in were cackling at that

Man don't fuck up the goal differential

US defense is beyond suspect

blows my mind how often corner/goal kick call is missed when the keeper deflects a shot like that. it’s not that complicated to get right

That one was weird cos it was obvious

Announcers really desperate to inject drama into things. Pulisic was subbed off cos it was 3-0 and every match is short rest

the replay was on my screen 10 seconds before the goal kick happened. referee has an earpiece in. not that hard!

Putting Berhalter in was A+ trolling

Lol Reyna scoring is the icing on the LOLcake

Love it for him

Well that was unexpected

https://bsky.app/profile/dscoul.bsky.social/post/3mo4zge2hes2k

Lolas

Hahahaha

Scotland - Haiti is gonna be unwatchable isn't it

I expect Scotland to win easily

> also there’s 48 teams i’m expecting first round to be like ncaa hoops where there’s 2-4 games on at the same time where is the coverage density

the only simultaneous games will be the last 2 of each group, done to stop tactical losing (although in the age of mobile phones i don't suppose this does much)

it'll be 4 games a day now that all the host nations have played, but no scheduled overlaps (injury time and weather delays might break this)

here in the UK the earliest kickoff is 5pm, the latest is 5am. Scotland match is 2am tonight.

Tactical losing is hilarious. If they want to stop it they should make them play in sensory deprivation chambers

Sigh at this terrible result to wake up to

Tbf to the US they were an entertaining side to watch and thoroughly deserved that win. Paraguay shockingly bad though

No more talk of Scotland winning easily thanks

xxp I managed to avoid finding out the result before watching highlights with the boy, was hoping paraguay would win but they were so poor that I didn't mind the score in the end, and there were a couple of good goals to watch. USA will come up against a decent team at some point and get found out, no worries.

Yeah it's just that Paraguay did well in the qualifiers hence the disappointment. Similarly rooting for Ecuador..

Hope they can get over that and get further into the tournament

I expect Scotland to win easily

I think in the last 30 years Scotland have "won easily" about three times.

They're trying to end this sort of thing right?

Balogun was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Nigerian parents.[7] His parents were living in London, but visited New York when his mother was seven months pregnant. However, on their intended return flight, airline staff refused his mother permission to fly due to safety concerns over her being too heavily pregnant at that time, and he was therefore born in New York

can a white boy do a little eurocentricposting… the games scheduling is truly chalked so far. no weekend daytime games is diabolical

yep

the schedule seems so inconsistent too, with massive gaps between some games

Yeah it feels sparse and inconsequential so far

Looking forward to catching a bit of Morocco Brazil tonight at least

Yeah hate the lack of daytime games. At the weekend and also while I'm supposed to be wfh.

No game until 8pm on a Saturday just feels wrong.

xpost going to a day rave so may stumble back in time for Morocco Brazil.

They're showing matches in movie theaters today. Brazil and Morocco is the one they chose.

I don't really get it, am i supposed to throw popcorn when there's a goal? Seems like a weird subdued environment to watch in

Stop getting football wrong, FIFA.

It's early i know but they've really fucked this. It's quite disspiriting

Dunno what rights the TV companies have in the UK but they're not helping either. Surely room for daytime repeats of the very early/late matches

Technically the first game is being played at 12 pm in the city that it's being played in (which is 3 pm my time).

Not sure why they didn't just host the early game on the East Coast so it could start earlier. West coasters by now are used to waking up early to watch national sports events on TV

looking forward to watching haiti 1 scotland 0 at 2am tomorrow morning

Haiti lost 5-1 to Curacao and 3-0 to Honduras in the last year, their wins usually come against the likes of New Zealand/Nicaragua type squads (other than the one they squeaked out over Costa Rica).

It'll probably be low scoring because they'll basically have 10 in the box for 90 minutes.

Oh now I've thoroughly jinxed Scotland :(

Idk Haiti have creative powerhouse Bellegarde

So many Wolves connections

what was costa rica’s record heading into italia ‘90

I’m actually experiencing serious head loss looking at the KO times over the next few days… 8pm, 11pm, 2am, 5am, 6pm, 9pm, 12am, 3am, 8pm, 5pm, 11pm… why is there no consistent pattern

We are lucky they’re not kicking off 11 to 17 minutes past the hour at random like MLS ones.

BBC also maddeningly inconsistent about where they list the overnight fixtures, like they've got the USA Paraguay game listed after two matches from today that haven't happened yet, then Haiti-Scotland is listed with like, a normal understanding of linear time

just make the games (for the groups) all 5pm, 8pm, 11pm, 1am every day surely

or 2am

the bbc listing thing was pissing me off too (also confusing me because I am bad at clocks)

It'll probably be low scoring because they'll basically have 10 in the box for 90 minutes

And because Clarke will probably play one forward and that'll be Che Adams.

The US being a sprawling landmass with 3 time zones didn't help matters. For example, a 5 pm kick in London would be a 9 am kickoff in California (noon on the East Coast) which would mean empty stadium with their godawful traffic (traffic is why the stadium took a while to fill up last night in the US match).

The frequent abnormally large gap between matches and the huge inconsistency in the schedule is frustrating. I'm still of the opinion that the tourney should have been taken away from the US and held only in Canada/Mexico once Trump got re-elected

Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop" heard in sponsor Quaker Oats commercial!

Jesus Christ, what are the Swiss wearing.

I’m kinda feeling it. I mean, it’s no curaçao away but it’s alright

xpost
Swiss cheese

That describes the Qatari defence.

how is that not offside

Yeah, baffling.

Worst strip in World Cup history, according to some German magazine. (xp)

I’m looking forward to seeing Curaçao away, certainly.

australia away, argentina away, bosnia away, ghana home, turkey home, south korea away, ecuador home, czechia away, haiti home, haiti away all worse imo. not a great world cup for kits actually having just looked at them all

Swiss shirt is good imo. Colours very slightly reminiscent of the Nigeria 2010 all-timer. Croatia home is an abomination from the shirts I’ve seen so far. Got my daughter the much-praised Scotland away top and it is pretty nice.

*2018

Hope you're all excited to see Scotland in the salmon and purple later.

I’m looking forward to seeing Curaçao away, certainly.

Sadly I believe they're wearing the blue in all three games.

BBC also maddeningly inconsistent about where they list the overnight fixtures

I've been looking around for a decent fixture list... the one I like most is at RTE:

https://www.rte.ie/sport/results/soccer/world-cup/24254/fixtures/

To have dominated play to this extent but only be 1-0 up through a penalty… it ain’t great. Maybe Switzerland will show more attacking capability in the rest of the game.

xp For UK viewers https://www.live-footballontv.com/live-world-cup-football-on-tv.html tells you which channel

These low block group matches often feel like watching a pot waiting fot it to boil

Hard to tell at times what is a Swiss fan and what is an empty seat.

Fell asleep. What did I miss?

It’s us who missed the opportunity of sleep.

If you think this game is boring you ain't seen nothing yet.

as a colour blind person i usually miss out on the "ugly shirt" content, but they seem to be finally catering to me today

It’s be pretty bloody funny if Qatar scored.

Praying for it

Switzerland shd have brought a striker

Could have brought Shaqiri, he's only 34

There it is

Hahahahaha

OMG

Lolololol

yeah it was funny

Hahahahaha!

gorgeous header, too.

Love a happy ending

Fair play to the Qatar keeper, had a great game.

He did. God knows how the Swiss were top seeds in this tournament.

amazing stuff

Group B all on same points, same goal difference and same goals scored after game one

Group of liiife

Incredibly low budget BBC with Tim Vickery working from home on a shitty webcam.

Let's geaux Morocco

Brazil shirts wouldn't be out of place on a cheap 60s psych comp cover

Same old crap about Brazil blah blah blah, you'd think people would learn since they've been shit at World Cups for years now.

Liking the Moroccan zip-up jackets.

Got 9/2 on Morocco, crazy odds - anything could happen but Morocco are a better team and it’s showing so far

Early part of the game but Brazil look shocking at the moment.

Morocco wants the win a lot more, yeah

Brazil seem overly confident

Still really like Raphinha though

Coming into it now. Difference in quality between both teams and everyone else who’ve played so far is massive

Wow

Tournament has officially begun

LOL Scotland

Pass through this 'defence' lol

Liquid Football!

^yeah this feels like a proper world cup match for some reason

don’t want to play this morocco team, thanks

Brazil’s midfield is even worse than I expected. Casemiro is cooked.

Nice

Oof.

Very nice

Vini, of course

He’s so good.

Bang

Trying to imagine Grant Hanley, John Souttar and Anthony Ralston playing against either of these.

Brazil’s midfield is even worse than I expected. Casemiro is cooked.

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Yeah but Gabriel is very decent

definitely feels like the first proper world cup match

scotland’s coke dealers will be doing numbers tonight

This is great. Apart from Vini equalising already.

(Xp to my post, meaning the defence might be able to defend if they get their act together)

This is good fun

ughhhhh the Swiss and Qatari players ready to restart and waiting impatiently for the ref to let their compulsory hydration ad break end

I was on a train at the time and it bugged me, my feed isn't that far behind

Swiss score = Freed From Desire for the gallionth time

Qatar score = sick Middle Eastern bop I must ID

(meant to write gajillionth, a real number, there)

Kinda awkward when US TV decides to show us some bored bucket hat celeb and nobody has a clue who it is, yet BBC or whoever has to grasp their napkin and desk with the aftermath.

deal with*

The celeb check ins is beyond annoying.

Paris Hilton made like 5 cameos yesterday

I did laugh at Mike Myers but fuck all these others

Morocco are a team for sure.

Lol old ronaldo. Almost didn’t recognize him

I think Guy Mowbray has managed to mention every team in the EPL tonight.

... what's new though?

Hoping I jinx things by saying the second half of this one has really petered out.

10 added minutes! But a draw seems right..

Morocco haven’t put enough players in the area to cause Brazil any serious problems in the second half. It’s been two or three against six.

This one really petered out. Can't tell if I'm asleep or awake.

I gotta say amid all the horrible bullshit at this WC, seeing a game where players have a two yard run up for a throw-in while the ref is screaming at them to take it within five seconds is a real tonic

Danso's Law

Scotland can go top tonight if they beat Haiti.

will set my alarm now

will set my alarm now

tick, tick, tick ...

The entire Round of 32 is the dumbest thing. How did they decide what group winner is slotted against a third place winner? That just applies to some teams. Some will be runner up against runner up and group winner against runner up

🤷‍♂️

scott brown’s been on the packet

enjoying bbc doing interviews down some side street, barely around the corner from enthusiastic boozed up chanting

Ugh at this next one being played in Gillette Stadium #FuckTomBrady

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tough to not support haiti tho

Kill piper

Two poor teams, so many annoying little fouls, ref a bit fussy. Gannon-Doak playing well

actually think clarke should have played 541 - haiti a lot better than everyone assumed

Fucking hell

England already making excuses and they haven’t even played their first match yet

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZirwzWklMZ/

Literally no idea why "park the bus and occasionally in the box for a pen' was Scotland's 2nd half strategy

I guess you don’t watch Scotland much

Lol good point

Oh well next one will hopefully be better. Rooting Turkiye

easy. thought the ref was bad - far too fussy

Thank fuck for that. Not sure it’ll be enough to go through considering how many goals Brazil and Morocco might put past us.

shankland looked like he was towing a bus

BGD, McGinn and Adams were decent

fuckin awful tbh but 3 points and top of the group. take a screenshot cos it's not gonna happen again.

How are Australia these days?

antipodal

Holy shit that goal

The antipodes are in control 😎

Wow thats a big shock

looking forward to watching haiti 1 scotland 0 at 2am tomorrow morning

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3 points is 3 points but 2-0 would’ve have been a significantly better result

i could see scotland beating brazil.

I’m cautiously optimistic about drawing with brazil and if we can limit the loss to morocco…

plus the posture and expectation will be a lot different in those two games - which suits scotland and clarke. he can revert to his favoured 541 and play on the counter

or 4231

wow never thought Turkey would lose this one

looked like a blinder from Australia on the highlights

I’ve only seen the highlights too but while Australia scored a couple of very nice goals they also gave up a whole bunch of chances - Turkiye hit the woodwork a couple of times, the Australian keeper had to make two or three really good saves. Could have been (but wasn’t, clearly) pretty different.

Another v disappointing result. Disaster to lose to Australians!

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John looking understandably worried that the trophy may in fact contain some Michelob Ultra

if a player is found to have dived to win a free kick in a way that the new yellow card mistaken identity regulations can not be used to rectify, that player will be forced to consume a small quantity of Michelob Ultra® during the next Hydration Break

wasn't sure whether it was a beer or a cigarette. thanks for clearing that up.

Literally dozed off for the first 15 minutes of the second half of the Scotland game but I don't imagine I missed much. Scoring a scrappy goal and then resorting to Clarkeball for those parts of the second half I was awake for, against a team that's won 4 out of their last 14 games? Wha's like us! In 1974, we were pleased with a cautious 2-0 victory in an opening game against Zaire, as they were then called, only for Zaire to lose 9-0 in their next match against Yugoslavia, as they were then called. Coincidentally Brazil were in the same group and we went out on goal difference. I think we need a draw really against either Brazil or Morocco because our goal difference is going to nosedive when we're at the end of a hiding from either Brazil or Morocco. McTominay is useless unless he's pushed further forward, by the way. Gunn is useless full stop. Hanley and Hendry did well against some lumbering Haitian strikers but then that was against some lumbering Haitian strikers. I'm off to wipe this saltire off my face.

What time did that Turkey-Australia match even get played?

12 am EST

tbf that's probably an acceptable broadcast hour in both Turkey and Australia

a hundred thousand breakfast sucuks flung in anguish

It almost harkens back to 2002.

yeah Turkey could bounce back from this - the group is nicely more open now

in another echo of 2002 I guess Germany could win 8-0 later

-3500 damn lol

Netherlands- Japan should be a good one

Yeah that’s going to be excellent. A traditional dark horse vs an up and coming potentially great team

I feel like today’s match schedule is better than yesterday’s, at least on PT - 10/1/4/7 - they’re on earlier and only one hour break in between

A traditional dark horse vs an up and coming potentially great team

genuinely cannot tell which of NL and JPN are which here

I’ve followed the J.League closely for more than 20 years, so for me this tournament really begins against the Netherlands today.

Imago,

Group stage → Round of 16 → Group stage → Round of 16 → Group stage → Round of 16 → Round of 16 → 2026 pending.

vs

Round of 16 → Round of 16 → Runner-up → Runner-up → Round of 16 → Quarter-finals → 4th place → Round of 16 → Runner-up → 3rd place → Quarter-finals → 2026 pending

pluck apiece. both of these teams will offer a banana suit to any of the big boys

With you on that

Pluck off.

These Scotland articles on the BBC are making me want to sue for my license money back. Tom English was bad enough on his sweet lonesome but now there's an Amy Canavan too? Awful

My favorite song, "Deutchsland über allen Gipfeln"

Curacao anthem was smooth jazz

When my country is finally formally recognized by the UN, "Careless Whisper" will be our anthem

BBC: Houston has a population 50 times the population of Curaçao…it’s a tiny island
Me: I wonder if Ceddanne Rafaela is watching this game?

this could get ugly

Ooof.

Sweet goal.

Sweet, sweet sweet goal.

lol get the fuck in

Hahahahahaaaaa amazing

lollllzzz

:)

(xp)Keep wondering why Ian Darke and Landon Donovan are talking about Kurosawa.

Woohoooo!

Germany look like they're going to cry

Awesome

This ref keeps getting in the way lol

Ah crap.

Shocking defending

"the hydration break maybe let them reset"

Rooting for Curacao. Definitely doable!

Yeah maybe not

Well that's that then.

Aaaand i jinxed it lol

Call me naive but i think they can still tie it

Was always a long shot for result but getting on the board against Germany nothing to scoff at.

otm

I blinked and missed the fourth German goal.

Same — boo

Fifth one too.

Better not blink anymore.

If Frank Zappa were here he'd call me Captain Tom.

It would be hilarious if they somehow manage to win the whole thing lol

Seven.

That’s my go-to move on EAFC26

Sane still yet to score at a tournament.

“Chippy”

Feel sorry for everyone involved with Curacao... apart from that little wanker Advocaat.

Andros Townsend calling the Curacao players "naive" when every single player in their squad but Chong was born and brought up in the Netherlands and they all play in Europe.

Go Japan!

Love the Japanese coach writing notes on his notepad lol

This looks like it may be fairly open

Would love a 3-2 scorcher

This ref (Ismail Elfath) is notoriously card happy and erratic af.

Has issued reds in friendlies multiple times. Refs MLS and is not well liked

both teams look great so far. both teams look like they’re playing a super technical game so far, waiting for the other side to screw up.

Yeah, some good stuff here

Yeah, definitely. Both teams playing to their strengths. Very cerebral. I will say the Japanese players look very short and physically weak next to the Dutch players. They’ll need to continue their compact formation and their quick passes if they want to get ahead of them or beat them at a pass…or a Dutch mistake!

hydration break in an indoor stadium with air conditioning? that ad money sure must taste good

Were there even ads during the hydration break?

I've been to one domed football match and it was just a drag. It's no fun when you don't get to feel the elements

physical difference is significant! i wonder if japan would’ve had an advantage in one of the super-hot outdoor match.

They should pump in artificial heat

Lol hydration break

Great save

my TV is genuinely having trouble with the colour balance right now

Those orange strips playing havoc.

I think no Depay is hurting the NL!

Remember this "scandal": https://share.google/RG3vD1ndFUqQqHnmw

Lol hit keepers water bottle

the dutch pre-game kit was excellent. i was hoping it was the official gear:

https://static.nike.com/a/images/w_1280,q_auto,f_auto/7f50420c-3892-4802-bce5-86d43f51bf60/netherlands-x-patta-collection-release-date.jpg

Japan finding some pockets

Best chance so far right there

Disappointing game so far

Probably the least physical, chippy match so far. Very composed on both sides

Set piecessss

Zero power on that header

I only half watched that first half and it still managed to bore me.

Would love it if Roy Keane announced he's converted to Islam

Idk it was cagey but more in a "probing" sort of way

Matched needed a goal and now it's got one

Oh great cross and header

Probing is done, it's on

Feel like that was the only way tbh

My friend called Van Dijk to score a header in the 59th minute before the game began, showed up early

Growing tired of the endless appeals for offside from defenders on literally every set piece goal, the shit is automated now anyway

Kinda love those ref cams

Yes!!

What a hit

Lol my feed is behind yours

Bar just erupted

We got a game now 🥳

While off balance and drifting backward wow

That deflection

Though now we’re back to square one technically lol a tie

Wonder if NED gets more physical now

This is the first one to feel like it has Cup atmosphere

Fucking hell this match

You didn’t think the Brazil match did?

Lol xp you are ahead, sir

It's on

valiant work by suzuki but

What a cutback

Oh they've taken Maeda off, now I don't care who wins.

Drink/stink break

Has to be match of the tournament so far..no idea where it's going

If Cruyff was on the pitch, smoke break

Xpost otm

Japan can't really veer too far from its strategy due to the size disparity but Netherlands not really being sloppy enough with the ball to capitalize

Three dutch subs weren’t televised i don’t think

Terrific passage of play from Japan. This should be level

Ugh needed a more clinical hit. That would have been an incredible equalizer

Ouch

I almost want this to be a draw

Big bastard Brobby on

Lol yeah big motherfucker get it done

About time Japan came up with a decent cross.

Junji Ito very involved... and they level!

Ito is cooking

And there it is!!

FUCK YES