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

Or Denmark!

watched three minutes and already've seen at least a dozen players dive smh

are denmark in the world cup

morocco knocking it about v nicely which seems naive now that games are all settled from set plays

we've found another Bad Ref

xp or big lumpy backpasses from polish defenders lol

Really want Morocco to do well and progress. I believe they could grow into the WC.

ziyech has been everything I hoped for & it wld be nice if he got a goal

Ziyech not near his usual standard tbf

Morocco look like they shd get on the scoresheet, but portugal look like they've another goal in them as well. 2 or 3- 1 Por I think

moroccan press in effect and very furious

it's a bit headless but that's part of the charm. reminds me a bit of germany's frantic play when they want it too much

portugal have been lucky to get so few cards considering how many fouls they've conceded

I’m resigned to Morocco never scoring.

yeah but if you're not going to score, this is the way to do it

Portugal are sleepwalking through this game. Morocco deserve something here... but they really need to work the keeper.

Lol they wouldn't score if they carried on playing after portugal leave the pitch

extremely bad & pathetic performance from portugal, really want to see them annihilated by someone

I thought the Jon Champion/Ally McCoist coupling for yesterday's afternoon game had sewn up the most fucking inane/smug commentary team but the Beeb's current line-up is in the running. Keown is god awful.

the moroccan forwards have done nothing

Fuck Flopnaldo

FAJR on FIRE

(let's hope so anyway)

benatia should have just decked pepe there

You know Portugal are doing well when Pepe's acting like he's being gunned down

xp otm

Amazing from Pepe

can't see them getting a better chance than that

These teams who can't score should take a leaf out of Mexico's book and start leaving two or three guys up the pitch for the counter-attack. Less shuffling around in a 4-5-1 only to get beaten 1-0.

That match was excruciating

Portugal shouldn't scare anybody

mexico had joy bc germany had one defensive midfielder, a playmaker they could press and a right back who wanted to play CF. mexico could also shoot at the goal

'Lesser countries' klaxon on the bbc

And the first corner of the game is egypt's apparently. Who is this nonce?

While things are quiet..

You know those odds I posted before? I forgot the 2nd half of the list.

Serbia 100-1
Sweden 150-1
Japan 150-1
Iceland 200-1
Egypt 250-1
Peru 250-1
Nigeria 500-1
Iran 500-1
South Korea 750-1
Costa Rica 750-1
Tunisia 1000-1
Morocco 1000-1
Australia 1000-1
Panama 2000-1
Saudi Arabia 5000-1

hmmm...

Suuuuuureee

after that goal some ppl are already calling luis suarez uruguay's harry kane

Yet another set-piece goal, and yet I've seen no criticism of the widespread "man-marking" system that keeps costing teams

— Michael Cox (@Zonal_Marking) June 20, 2018

lol

Still true, 19 games in, that no losing team has scored via anything other than a set-piece / dead ball, which is weird.

Well this is dull

Feel like the matches have gradually declined since Japan-Colombia ended

just like in their previous match, you get the feeling Saudi-Arabia has played a little too much FIFA in their penthouses.

uruguay are the anti-morocco, doing nothing to good effect

Time to shut up shop for uruguay maybe. They shpuld be confident of keeping saudi out, and they're not going to match russia's goal difference in the remaining 20 minutes, so 1-0 is fine

Uruguay have lacked any creativity across both games tbh. I appreciate their objective is to score precisely one goal, and they’ve done it, but they haven’t been remotely impressive.

I'm at work so not seeing this but apparently Phil Neville has just said something along the lines of Uruguay fans not being too bothered about their style of play because "all they're interested in is seeing Uruguay progress further than they've ever been before".

Yep. That's my boy

christ almighty

Garbage performance. Hope Uruguay gets annihilated in the 16

they'll have either spain or portugal in the next round iirc