Hate It If We Played It - Qatar World Cup 2022

well, if CRC could beat or draw with Germany in the last game it will have all been worth it

well, if CRC could beat or draw with Germany in the last game it will have all been worth it

oh no my first doublepost in ages, hellish

Crazy. Would love to see CR and Japan advance. If Germany wins later, the whole group is tied with 3?

If Spain put Germany out the chances of the Germans saying fuck it and sticking out any old shitty reserve team out against Costa Rica seem slim to non-existent so I don't see Costa Rica progressing much further - which is just as well as they're rubbish.

I can see Germany grinding out a win against Spain and it going down to the wire.

Both these teams want to attack. Good

Saiss not given a yellow there, clearly could have been, one of the tournament's clear themes

note to self: never judge a game on its first 5 minutes

Oh here we go! Morocco in front!

... or are they?

Bah humbug!

Do you have that Scrooge cellphone commercial as well?

“Trying to screen the match but my signal’s gone afoul!”

funnily enough, my statement from earlier seems truer of Morocco than Belgium

LOL Belgium fall for the same trick and Morocco are ahead!

Lol fantastic

The death-star of goalkeeping has a weakness!

“It’s all going pear-shaped for Belgium!”

Yessss! Even though Thierry is there, I’ve never liked this Belgium “golden generation”. Happy to see them potentially get beaten

(Idk if they are still seen as a golden generation but that’s mostly cos Hazard isn’t a star anymore)

Same trick? Did something like it happen earlier as well?

First fk goal of the tournament too

Woohoo! Brilliant!

Awesome!

always happy for Saiss

and for Europe getting beat

Sweet sweet strike

Useless Belgium fuck off

Lovely

I think Belgium were actually more successful in the Ceulemans/Gerets etc era despite the enormous quantities of smoke blown up the arses of their recent teams.

“It is a Moroccan masterpiece, at Belgium’s expense!”

I miss all the best matches. 8 am here is too early meh

If we get through the second week with only Qatar (and I suppose Wales) eliminated that's great.

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BEL were 4th in the 1986 WC, 3rd in the 2018 WC.

Technically, therefore, I think the recent team is more successful.

But they have underachieved at times, eg being knocked out much too easily in 2014. And they sadly appear to have reached the end of the road now.

Fuck Hazard

chris sutton has predicted a 1-0 win for canada here. it will definitely not be that

wow

it may be that

Get in!

89 minutes for it to stop being that! Been a day of great calls by me

Loved seeing a foul throw earlier. Average Sunday league left backs of the world unite.

BEL were 4th in the 1986 WC, 3rd in the 2018 WC.

They were also beaten finalists in the 1980 European Championships, a competition the current team of golden boys have done fuck all in.

That’s been coming

Will always be bemused that Belgium gave this group of players to Roberto Martinez for the whole of their international careers xp

They are very good at winning friendlies and qualifying matches

Ooh, assist by a Celtic player.

A rare poppin' first half

Excellent half. Well done Canada for their goal.

I was wondering why the Canadian goalkeeper keeps getting booed and, inevitably, it's because he's Serbian.