Lord
― burzum buddies (brownie), Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
Gott ist sehr tot
― Swedes and Löw (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
Fucking brilliant though.
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
bet loss besides, great game
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
that’s some odious defending by the swedes.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
That’s spectacular.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
That was the stupidest fucking free kick any stupid fuck ever fucking conceded
― Swedes and Löw (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
Inevitable but can't begrudge such a fantastic goal
― groovypanda, Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
this germany team are mb the most entertaining thing in this wc
― ogmor, Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
Crime of the fucking century.
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
kon tiki man to be eaten by sharks imo
― mark s, Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
Fucking wasteman hipster fucking twat
― Swedes and Löw (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
gutted for Olsen
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
I hope Mexico wreck the fuckers now
― Swedes and Löw (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
^^^^^^^
― imago, Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
and Korea beat Germany 3-0 to go through :)
― imago, Saturday, 23 June 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
Can see Sweden beating Mexico tbh.
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
The bandwagon hipsters are in full force now in my neighbourhood. They love Berlin and they love the Mannschaft and it's an atrocious sight and please make them go away.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
the german defence will def suit son a lot more than mexico's or sweden's
― ogmor, Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
god I don't know what could be better than sonaldo putting germany out the wc
― ogmor, Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
yeah i'm signing up for that
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
Also the freaking commentators always straddling the lines of cultural clichés about the german spirit and mental toughness is really just the worst. You would never hear them say that about Nigeria or Costa Rica.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
otoh Germany always seems to be able to pull this off, and I've never seen Costa Rica do it. (of course, it's a little easy to do 'it' if you're the biggest and richest football nation in the world)
― Ludo, Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
Sweden basically played like a UEFA Cup level Premiership team in 1993 but that was both devastating and stupid.The sheer gall of scoring one of the best ever World Cup goals when you're seconds away from elimination as well.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
C’mon it was a fine piece of trickery but it wasn’t Bergkamp 1998 or Carlos Alberto 1970. There’s been better goals in this tournament already.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
Context matters...
― Number None, Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
If Germany wasn't the most or second most powerful footballing nation in the world for 50 years running vs a winter country with 1/8th of their population I would agree, but you are right, context matters.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
in the context of football of yore when goals when enjoyed RT or shortly after, context was v important, but in the context of modern football enjoyed through compilations and parochial hard house, context is less important
― ogmor, Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
I knew I'd seen Toni Kroos' goal before. What a player, Román, always knew just how to stick it to Racing 😢 pic.twitter.com/4wxym9h5fm— Daniel Edwards 💚 (@DanEdwardsGoal) June 23, 2018
― ogmor, Saturday, 23 June 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
Had a bet on Sweden ahead at half time but Germany winning so TY based Kroos
― nashwan, Saturday, 23 June 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
Lol yeah I had over 2.5 goals
― frogbs, Saturday, 23 June 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
Can Kroos do it in big games y/n
― A Warning to the Karius (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 23 June 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
nice to see the Serbian FA responding to defeat with calm equanimity
― Swedes and Löw (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 June 2018 08:32 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/24/world-cup-low-goals-count-financial-inequality-lack-of-time
― ogmor, Sunday, 24 June 2018 10:04 (five years ago) link
Bunkering!
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 June 2018 10:22 (five years ago) link
i dispute the opening sentence of his article so i'm not slogging thru the rest of it
― Swedes and Löw (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 June 2018 10:29 (five years ago) link
i assume he wrote it before yesterday's games tho
― Swedes and Löw (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 June 2018 10:30 (five years ago) link
wtf this has been a good world cup
― imago, Sunday, 24 June 2018 10:33 (five years ago) link
kroos goal keeper error
― under a mand'rin tsar (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 June 2018 10:33 (five years ago) link
(xp) otm
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 June 2018 10:34 (five years ago) link
i really like Inverting the Pyramid so i assume this is just clickbait Graun mode strictly for the bucks
― Swedes and Löw (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 June 2018 10:38 (five years ago) link
god help me i'm going to the pub to watch this one, i feel it needs the reportage
― Swedes and Löw (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 June 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
lol @ That Guardian article
Of more progressive football there has been little at this tournament, with the one side that promised something new, Argentina, never quite embracing the 2-3-3-2 blueprint of Jorge Sampaoli and collapsing into anarchy as they tried to operate a back three against Croatia.
more like 1-10 (Messi > give the ball to Messi players)
He does make a valid point about the European dominance, which gets more annyoing every World Cup.
― Ludo, Sunday, 24 June 2018 10:55 (five years ago) link
no it doesn't
― under a mand'rin tsar (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 June 2018 10:57 (five years ago) link
England still going for three at the back with Walker.
Alli is out.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 24 June 2018 11:00 (five years ago) link
What's annoying about it? (xps)
― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 June 2018 11:01 (five years ago) link
That piece is hilarious, there is almost a colonial mindset to that stuff. First week can be slow because they are first games and sides don't want to lose but the last few days have been great. VAR has played a part on the penalties front - but maybe the rules and players will catch up with it in time so I expect the numbers to go down. VAR's implementation was rushed.
The dearth of goals is the obvious complaint. As of Friday night, there had been 2.33 per game. By comparison, there were 3.21 per game in the Champions League last season and 2.67 in the Premier League. The lowest average for a World Cup is the 2.21 of 1990.
What thrash is this? Its a one-month tournament played over four years. Its going to be a very different mindset.
And the world cup has never had more than 5-10 teams, all from Europe and South America, that could win the thing. The odd run from an African or Asian team doesn't change that.
And the problems from Argentina (and Germany) stem from them being at the end of their cycle. The former nearly didn't make it.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 June 2018 11:02 (five years ago) link
And the world cup has never had more than 5-10 teams, all from Europe and South America, that could win the thing.
One of the most annoying aspects (and less than 10 imo). Not sure why anyone would deny that. Article is bad tho sure.
― nashwan, Sunday, 24 June 2018 11:08 (five years ago) link
Not really sure why a tactics nerd is worried about the goal count. I say this as a tactics nerd.
― Swedes and Löw (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 June 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
Yeah its less than 10.
There isn't really an European dominance of the WC - or no more so than usual. Usually one of Brazil/Argentina/Uruguay get to the latter stages. One of Colombia or Chile threaten to do something. The former were hacked around four years ago.
Croatia (I forgot the odd contribution from Central and Eastern Europe) and Senegal have played some good stuff this time around and hopefully they can get to the latter stages (really hoping Senegal put Eng out). That's par for the course.
xp = maybe more sides should go for it like Tunisia did yesterday and get mauled.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 June 2018 11:20 (five years ago) link