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

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

Portugal v. Uruguay, that should be an exciting game...

Maybe Ronaldo can just face off against Suarez 1 on 1

An even worse game there.

portugal-uruguay would be perfect but it's doubtful uruguay's confidence will survive an encounter with the tournament's premier exponents of attacking football, russia

"If anyone can dim that Russian flame it's the canny Uruguayans". <----- expecting something like this from Nult.

https://d2x51gyc4ptf2q.cloudfront.net/content/uploads/2018/06/20082123/Harry-Kane-Daily-Mail-1.jpg

... and he's white too. Huzzah!

i'm sure that thought never crossed their minds

who are these "football heroes" he is being compared to even?? headline just need the first two lines tbrr

i was thinking the same (tho diluted by "as if i know who any footballers are")

I read it as a not very subtle dig at Sterling

brb, I'm off to get a gun tat.

"engaged to childhood sweetheart" is the strangest credential. a nation of people still pissed that their childhood sweethearts kissed and left them in the 6th grade.

sick of these jumped up prannies marrying spice girls and actresses off emmerdale

Criticising Iran for putting the ball out of play so their captain (who went down holding his thigh unchallenged) is a new low, maybe.

Missed out "can get treatment" somehow.

"never met new people or evolved. maintained evil alliance with whomever happened to be around when he was young. a football hero england can be proud of."

Jeez this match is getting testy.

If Iran get something out of this game then the narrative for that final group match against Portugal is going to be off the scale. Queiroz could send them home.

Are these the first vuvus of the tournament by the way? I've kind of missed them.

Ah, I still chuckle whenever I heard 'Isco, Busquets'.

They had them against Morocco too.

My main take from this so far is that Iran are better than Portugal

yeah they've definitely put in some appearances already. they do feel v world cup now, part of the tapestry