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― 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
I don't think I'll ever forgive Rojo for just ruining the goal of the tournament.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
yeah, he might not have scored had he not been fouled
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
Whichever Argentina midfielder allowed Mbappe to just run through the middle of the pass and pick the ball up there was a moron as well.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
still rooting Messi though. the blame he takes for his national team's failures is stupid af
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
It was definitely a lower chance than the penalty but it looked to me like he had a pretty clear path if he wasn’t fouled.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
Amazing run.
yeah I mean the yellow was a right call for that reason
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
Di Maria is awful
― Blandford Forum, Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
omg what
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
mbappe is the best player in the world
― the last famous poster you were surprised to discover was actually (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
Terrorizing Argentina.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
lol stick a fork in Argentina
― Kroos on first (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
Ok so just give Mbappé the ball and wait for Argentina to have no defenders left on the pitch
― Blandford Forum, Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
This is a complete tactical disaster from Argentina.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 30 June 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link