we all get found out eventually
― ogmor, Friday, 29 June 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
ppl watched wayne rooney wiwo for fifteen years cunt still getting a game
― under a mand'rin tsar (darraghmac), Friday, 29 June 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
tom d doling out some very received wisdom here but I think England will not only beat Colombia but that it'll be a good thing even in footballing terms
― imago, Friday, 29 June 2018 12:47 (five years ago) link
538 has england with a 60% chance to win, with a no doubt bulletproof method i have not troubled myself to investigate furtherhttps://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-world-cup-predictions/bracket/
also brazil at 83% to beat mexico, france and portugal both favoured
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 29 June 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
i've enjoyed experimental361s percentiles, which has england at a similar 56%
Here's how the #WorldCup probabilities look for the quarter-finals onwards, updated after tonight's games.If #ENG can get past #COL, then it's #SWE or #SUI in the quarter-finals and probably #ESP or #CRO in the semis. pic.twitter.com/msgdBlbF5B— Ben Mayhew (@experimental361) June 28, 2018
― nxd, Friday, 29 June 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
Brazil likeliest to take it all, eh? Can’t say I’m convinced.
― pomenitul, Friday, 29 June 2018 13:03 (five years ago) link
Who has been better than them so far given the quality of opposition they've faced? Not saying they're perfect but I can't really dispute them being favourites.
― Matt DC, Friday, 29 June 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
I was impressed with the way Croatia powered through a tough group. But yeah no team has the aura of invincibility yet, it's open and exciting this year. Wouldn't bet against Spain- Brazil final.
― thomasintrouble, Friday, 29 June 2018 14:29 (five years ago) link
Uruguay-Portugal is wonderful. I expect lots of yellows and no flowing play whatsoever, but rather the sort of petty, whining foulfest that really makes a world cup.
this is what everyone is saying, but no team had fewer yellow cards than uruguay in the group stage. maybe their group was so shit they didn't need to turn it on?
― mizzell, Friday, 29 June 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
Always feels like a big advantage in these situations to have a settled & stingy centre back partnership who are used to each other from club level* so quite fancy Uruguay to go deep from now on (allowing for Ronaldo magic ofc) *not that this has worked out brilliantly for Italy or Germany this year
― Windsor Davies, Friday, 29 June 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
granted I've not seen much of mex, but I've seen about 180 mins of brazil and they don't seem that convincing. beat serbia (utterly uninspiring); costa rica (lol); and drew with switzerland (who are at best 'resilient'.) they probably do have the 'character' and 'experience' and the superior H2H record and that will /probably/ take them through but don't think them beating mexico is nailed on
― ||||||||, Friday, 29 June 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
uru-por is tie of the round. totally uncallable and could just turn into a massive shithouse-off/heel-off
― ||||||||, Friday, 29 June 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
col-eng is a banger too
i count 4 excellent matches in the 1/8 finals. more than expected. It's hard to call Belgium favorites, but they have a great game, and seemingly a working game plan. (though this hasn't been tested to good opposition yet) (i mean England weren't bothered)
Brazil is like Germany, they'll certainly grind past Mexico, but Belgium aha!
― Ludo, Friday, 29 June 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
ARGPORBRABELSPACROSWECOL
― challops trap house (Will M.), Friday, 29 June 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
same reasons as everyone above and i also want/am maybe ready to predict a BEL-CRO final (i'll be wrong)
― challops trap house (Will M.), Friday, 29 June 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
BEL-CRO final would be fantastic imo
― gbx, Friday, 29 June 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
sounds like a sticky one
― under a mand'rin tsar (darraghmac), Friday, 29 June 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
lol!
― calzino, Friday, 29 June 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
No world cup final is gonna be fantastic ud have to be fucking methuselah to remember a watchable world cup final
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 29 June 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
but I've seen about 180 mins of brazil and they don't seem that convincing. beat serbia (utterly uninspiring); costa rica (lol);
why costa rica lol? Seems like unpleasant eurocentrism & goldfish like ignorance tbh
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 29 June 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
Colombia are doomed if they do that thing teams often do against England of confusing a Great Footballing Nation with a Great Football Team
Has this ever happened?
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 29 June 2018 22:47 (five years ago) link
Brazil won a tough group reasonably comfortably in the end. I like the look of the Swiss, unusual to think of them as a 'flair team' but they will be against Sweden. Which inevitably means they'll lose.
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 29 June 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
Before we started, I'd have said Mexico wd have a decent chance against Brazil in the second round... now, I worry they'll be totally deflated by the last group game, and shamefacedly having to be bailed out by Korea. Otoh, perhaps they'll prefer to play Brazil, who will probably try and impose their own game, perhaps allowing for lethal counters, rather than Switzerland, who would surely set out to stifle them as Sweden did.
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 29 June 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
No world cup final is gonna be fantastic ud have to be fucking methuselah to remember a watchable world cup final― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 29 June 2018 22:40 (yesterday)
― Neuer write off the germans (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 29 June 2018 22:40 (yesterday)
78, 82 and 86 all great. Since, not so much. 98 memorable for the wrong reasons, 06 also.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 30 June 2018 05:07 (five years ago) link
Costa Rica played with 11 men behind the ball for pretty much the whole game, they were extremely organised and difficult to break down. Suspect a lot of other teams would have drawn that one 0-0.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 30 June 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link
1966 was good
yr pal,methu$elah
― mark s, Saturday, 30 June 2018 10:46 (five years ago) link
(i didn't realise i'd watched it till years later, when i asked my mum -- we didn't have a TV then. she said "yes, the whole watched it, on the staff TV -- but you read a book the whole time")
― mark s, Saturday, 30 June 2018 10:47 (five years ago) link
obviously germany was robbed
― mark s, Saturday, 30 June 2018 10:49 (five years ago) link
FRA-ARG: 2-1aetURY-PRT: 3-1BRA-MEX: 1-1, MEX pensBEL-JPN: 4-1ESP-RUS: 3-2HRV-DNK: 1-0SWE-CHE: 1-1, SWE pensCOL-ENG: 1-3
FRA-URY 1-2MEX-BEL 0-2ESP-HRV 0-1aetSWE-ENG 0-1aet
URY-BEL 2-3HRV-ENG 1-3aet
(URY-HRV 3-4)
BEL 3-1 ENG (0-1 on 85min, then Stones (og), Pickford fumbles De Bruyne daisy-cutter, Batshuayi in off post DYS)
Golden Boot: Kane (9); Lukaku (8) subbed on 75min in F
(ISO3166-1 forever, except "England/ENG" doesn't exist)
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 30 June 2018 10:53 (five years ago) link
Jeez guy
― . (Michael B), Saturday, 30 June 2018 11:50 (five years ago) link
If all that happens then we'll presumably nuke Brussels
― imago, Saturday, 30 June 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link
Also, have two nations ever played each other twice at a World Cup before?
― imago, Saturday, 30 June 2018 12:00 (five years ago) link
Yep e.g. Brazil and Sweden in 94, Brazil and Turkey in 02
Most of these are too close to call, unusually so for a second round even if it's more because nobody's looking strong enough to win the whole thing. Still a bit of a shame there's no Costa Rica v Greece battle of upsetters too though.
France seem uninspired compared to two and four years ago but win on penalties AET 1-1Uruguay beat Portugal 2-1Brazil to beat Mexico boringly and unconvincingly 2-1Belgium to thrash Japan, De Bruyne and Hazard run the show - 4-0Russia beat Spain undeservedly 2-1Croatia struggle to break Danes down but Mandzukic nods winner in extra time 1-0Swiss have been better than I expected and perhaps 'due' a QF appearance - penalties AET 0-0 thoBeen too long since England won a knockout game and feel it must be time esp. with James unfit, ideally a 3-2 classic
― shaqiri tip (nashwan), Saturday, 30 June 2018 12:01 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dg7heq3WkAEzymk.jpg
he's ready.
― calzino, Saturday, 30 June 2018 12:07 (five years ago) link
Most famous instance of meeting twice in same WC surely Hungary v W Germany; 8-3 in group stage, 2-3 in final. Apparently, 5Live just said ARG-FRA had never met in WC before? 1978 group stage, late Luque goal, come on.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 30 June 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
ArgUruBraBelSpaCroSwiEng
― Kroos on first (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 June 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
Fra Por BraBelSpaCroSwe Col
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 30 June 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
Sweden, ultimately, to win the thing.
just reading some discussion about VAR over and the Express and Star and i've come to the conclusion that there's a kind of gammony rhetorical outrage about diving and all of the non-violent assault forms of gamesmanship and i just don't give that much of a shit, at all. NB cheating is bad, yeah.
― Kroos on first (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 June 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
anybody fancy a sweep on what minute Maradona dies?
― Kroos on first (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 June 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
whichever minute maximally trolls online ENG fans, i imagine
― mark s, Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
86 then
― shaqiri tip (nashwan), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
You heard it here first, speculative ghouls
― Kroos on first (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
Do you think Danny Murphy is deliberately mispronouncing 'Umtiti' to prevent himself from laughing?
― Matt DC, Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
shocker
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
Rojo you cock
― Kroos on first (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
this kid is why football
― the last famous poster you were surprised to discover was actually (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
holy shit, that run
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
ball had got away from Mbappe a little bit, that was just dumb