No Irish, No Yanks, No Clogs - FIFA World Cup 2018

Senegal would be on fire if they had one forward who could pick the right pass in the box

No I mean to exoticise one's demons - to repeat a mistake, but even more grandly

Is that mrs valderrama

Sounds like poland have been mince, which ratchets up the tension in samara a bit more

Colombia maybe woke up a little those last 10 minutes, hope they come out a bit more lively 2nd half

Lawrenson is doing the poland game btw, can only imagine the black cloud of negativity engulfing the volgograd stadium

Feel that if Colombia can get into the lead, they'll keep it, even tho Senegal have been the better. Final ball's been poor, hard to see them scoring against a massed defence.

Five rolls there!

We just noticed Lawro doing the other game which reinforced the decision to watch this one

Although well done imago for channeling him there ;)

lol

Nothing else is happening! <<<still Lawro

oh japan

Poland should let Japan win!

A goal for either sen or col now puts the other back in third

Jpn beating sen in fairplay I think

Where is Lewandowski in the list of best strikers of the last ten years to not score at a World Cup (if he doesn't)?

so japan go through if any of japan, senegal or colombia score one goal, but at the moment they're out

Yes, Japan have had four yellow cards, Senegal six.

Would be interesting to see a study of general racial bias when handing out bookings (not just in the World Cup).

Lol can open, worms everywhere

Basic truth bomb imo

Before we get into the rhetoric of punditing "cheats v good honest pros"

Nooooo!

japan getting bailed out lol

lol at the senegal player just standing there on the near post

How many times has mané slipped over today?

bananamané beskinned

Senegal all fire no aim

Seems a lack of urgency in other game, don't think senegal are going to get bailed out here

Too many yellow fucking cards. What way to run a railroad.

senegal going out in stoppage time, passing triangles in their own box

Japan and poland have declared? Walking passes

Japan game over.

Should have booked ten men on both sides for time wasting tbh.

Shocker, Poland can't even beat Japan properly. How's that prediction of Pele's that an African nation will win the World Cup before the year 2000 looking?

well that's a pisser

Yeah!

Japan on fair play points?

yep

unfortunately one of my better predictions - 36 years since this last happened

no idea what's best for England now so they might as well go for a morale boosting win

For real if Senegal had scored after however many minutes of Japan just walking it around it would have been an all-time clown car moment.

wait that's the tiebreaker?

Prediction - Tunisia v Panama will be the least-watched game of the entire tournament.

seems like a banker. p miserable end to the first round with these last 2 games. have either southgate or martinez issued convincing denials about punting this game?

I suppose its not quite West Germany-Austria, as Japan can say they were taking a huge risk. But fuck em, if that's football then i'm a dutchman.

Southgate has ridiculed the idea of punting the game, noting that as england haven't won a knockout game since 2006, it is odd to be sketching out likely semi final opponents already

it's brazil/mexico/colombia vs sweden/switzerland/japan for the next 2 games, it's got nothing to do with the semis

which is not to claim any of the latter would be easy wins, or wins at all, but there is an evident difference in the potential strength of schedule

Brazil/Mexico/Japan

Or

Sweden/Switzerland/Colombia

Nobody's going to punt the ggame tonight