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

Let's see how Germany get on tonight first. Not prepared to write them off completely after just one game

mexico and germany should breeze these games

Tunisia looked like they were at least trying to win today.

this one's starting out as a foul fest

That's the El Tri we know

counterattacks are gonna be impossible in this environment

helluva recovery there

Didn't see Mexico - Germany. They are...not that good atm.

lol Mexico have a pen

back to penaltyball we go!

I don't think that was one?

Shitdefenderball

that was 100% a pen

I'm not shocked that Mexico doesn't look as sharp, they sat back and let Germany have 2/3rds possession and feasted mostly on counterattacks. roles reversed in this match

this one is kinda fun atm

finally the flawlessly adjudicated tournament of my dreams

Fair enough yes this would be a diff sort of match for Mexico.

xpost at least it's been relatively unobtrusive here. in Major League Soccer in the states, we have VAR, but half the time the video reviews take 5 fucking minutes, they come back on the field and give someone a phantom red card, and forget to tack it back on to stoppage time.

I am overall though not a huge fan of Video review in a sport like this. goal line technology is ok tho

best part of the world cup is when they show all the ladies in a moment of excitement cheering on their team

yeah Neanderthal it has been administered pretty efficiently this tournament tbf and there's no point arguing with FIFA's idea of progress but it's just waste, really. goal-line tech works fine.

var is great and is working great

fuck defenders tbh

d u dont like catenaccio

the worth of an attacker is defined by the strength of the defence he has to get thru imo

looking forward to football becoming the equivalent of the Big Bash League tho

https://twitter.com/TheNutmegNews/status/101550222072631296

We take you now to Red Square where Alexi Lalas tries anything within his power to connect this Mexico team to the United States teams of the past.

— The Nutmeg News (@TheNutmegNews) June 23, 2018

Question mark should be part of the URL, weird

Sorry just had a look again and yeah its a pen. No need for VAR!

Alexi Lalas is annoying af, acts like he's the dean of US Soccer. tho tbf idk who else would want that honor.

Mexico just taking shots from outside the box and wasting it.

just trying to show their fans some love by kicking balls at them

Mexico should just start shooting from midfield, that'll solve it

one on target and its a good save!

Mexico tends to play very boring when they know they're better than their opponent.

South Korea's plan to win by breaking the shins of their opponents may not be paying off YET, but just WAIT

CHICHARITO!

2-0.

There you go

Nice team nnngooollll

mexico probably the strongest latin american team left

it's weird how often defences are foxed by someone coming inside and tucking one in at the near post, so quick to go to ground

mexico probably the strongest latin american team left

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They'd probably lose to Brazil and Uruguay

can't tell if colombia just had a one-off stinker

yellow cards! collect em, swap em with your friends! get the whole set!

xxp

maybe brazil

uruguay underperformed against saudi arabia

kinda surprised they only got one goal in

Ochoa should just rest on the sideline, Mexico go with an empty net for a while, don't think it will make much diff

korea had a bunch of opportunities but jesus they're so bad

mexico hasn't been playing their best game

playing down to their opponent, which they've been known to do.

also South Korea is mugging them out there every 2 minutes which tends to disrupt yr rhythm