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Ref seems to have got a good handle on this game after the first few mins.
And as I type that... !! 😀
No a bad first effort at goal! 🙂
offt some save!
Well I don't see Uruguay coming back from that, time for the goalies to start catching the ball
anyone have 68mins before it all kicked off?
Horrific keeping for goal 2. France the better side without argument
Arrgghhh ... France won ... dammit, completely spoiled my forecast.
I now hope Belgium will beat Brazil ...
🙁
p/s: my forecast ...
Next round quarter-final stage:
Uruguay will beat France by 2 goals. (France won 2 nil instead)
Belgium will beat Brazil by 1 goal.
Croatia will beat Russia by 2 goals.
England will be Sweden by 1 or 2 goals.
Next next round semi-final stage:
Uruguay will beat Belgium by 2 goals. (arrghhh ... now replaced by France)
Croatia will beat England by 2 goals.
Ready for the main event?
I think this is my most anticipated game since the Spain vs Portugal encounter, hope it proves to also be a cracker.
Hopefully my forecast is right for the rest coz me mates are going to kill me for losing bets for them ... 😀
Settled in, fridge is stocked hopefully this will be a good entertaining game as I hope 3-5pm tomorrow is a snoozefest
Slotted in Lukaku, Hazard and Courtinio to my FF team for this one,
Well I really enjoyed listening to the Fra-Uru game on R5L, I think thier commentary has been really insightful and interesting so far.
Bit miffed at France winning by 1 more goal than my prediction, how rude.
Onto Bra-Bel then... we’ll im hopeful Belgium will go through, 1-0 and the goal comes in the second half. I shall be watching on the tv though, so torn whether to put the radio on for the commentary..
Yep, but can't support a team that contains that stunt man Neymar.
I shall be watching on the tv though, so torn whether to put the radio on for the commentary..
Apparently you can do it via the red button to be synced properly
anyone want to chuck a fiver on this ending 0-0 😉 there be goals in this one
Goooaalll ... Belgium 1 - 0 Brazil.
😀
That's not going to be the last goal tonight.
It’s all a bit cagey this, isn’t it?
Like a game of chess 😳
I’m going For 5 - 4, but god knows who too
5-4 on goals scored or in the right net?
That’s not going to be the last goal tonight.
As long as Belgium wins by 1 goal that should be good enough.
At this point if I was France I'd be cheering for Brazil, Belgium have turned up and De Bruyne is reacting perfectly to getting the news I dropped him from my FF team, the Ginger kid has got the hang of the heat
You were bang on Mike. That and my bet on them to win has sealed Brazil’s fate.
What a finish! Lukaku’s looking like he fancies it tonight too
Gooaaaal ... DeBruyne ...
Belgium 2 - 0 Brazil
Brazil ... " ... You shall not pass ..." (voice of Gandalf) LOL!
That's 2 goals for man city so far.
Well that was the best finish by a Belgium since Phillipe Albert made it 5-0
For all the talk of Belgium being a team of individuals it looks like they are a proper team now, coming back against Japan probably did them a lot of good there.
France are going to need to find the next gear for a semi if this carried on.
The Brazilians are getting shown up with all these cameras on them
The fat lady ain't singing yet (if the cameras find one in the crowd) - Brazil need to get one back before half time.
Hazard is superb so far, using his bum à la Dalglish.
Is Jurgen in there just for t he diving teams?
Hazard, De Bruyne and Lakaku all look absolutely awesome! Hair’n’elbows is having a great game sat behind them too.
This looks like the tournament winnning squad to me
As much as I hope Belgium win, I hope Brazil get a goal soon to keep the pace of the game up.
Don’t know the big black Belgian players name but blimey, he’s been everywhere that Brazil haven’t been.
Awesome effort that man.
Much better from Brazil, I'm not sure why they didn't start with Firmino maybe he was still doing his teeth.
Naymar needs to go into the book though
Good refereeing.
Brazilian diving skills are rather good. 😀
That was a pen though,
Surely that was a penalty?
That's a genuine penalty that Neymar's theatrics has cost them. It will take a lot to convince this ref that they aren't just chucking themselves over the nearest leg.
It’s getting scrappy, but I like the refs decisions so far. That Naymar bloke should be up for an Oscar, then refuted whilst on stage.
You lot must think the sun shines out of his bottom, me I think he should be sent off.
. It will take a lot to convince this ref that they aren’t just chucking themselves over the nearest leg.
+1
It's cost them as every time they are thinking dive and exaggeration,
and perfect timing there!! Game on
Whaaatttt ... Brazil scored ...
Belgium 2 -1 Brazil ... hhhmmm my forecast is still on ... 😀
Game on!
hhhmmm my forecast is still on
A stopped clock is right twice a day
Brazil look like they're going to score again
How long can Belgium hold on... Exciting stuff
Is this a time out?
Come on you Brazzers (I think that's what you call a group of Brazilians, maybe they have a website I can check)
A lot of the Belgium players look dead on their feet. I bet they don’t fancy extra time?
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Don’t know the big black Belgian players name but blimey, he’s been everywhere that Brazil haven’t been.</span>
this post made me chuckle...perhaps not the most pc description ever* but 100% accurate ! yeah hes been immense. Reminds me of emile heskey, but with a bit of talent. As the pundits said, he looks like when you played school football and there was a lad who had reached puberty about 3 years earlier than everyone else!
* thats not a dig btw!! I found it funny because some folks would have spent a paragraph trying to avoid using such a succinct and obvious description!
Tick tock tick tock ... Belgium will hang on to their 1 goal lead ... 😀
Diving boy is trying to pull a quick last minute penalty ... 😀
I do hope Neymar sticks with PSG as this will be the last of his antics we see for another 4 years
That's a penalty. Fingers in the eye.
That’s a penalty.
What you been smoking there?
Shame to see Brazil go out.
Belgium 2 - 1 Brazil
Brazil is OUT of the the World Cup ... wohooo!
Awesome, Brazil out.
The historionics do not pay.
Belgium have a real chance now.
normally I love watching Brazil, but this team deserved to go out I reckon
Want to see it again. But reckon it was. Hand in the face doesn't take much at all.
The right result, Belgium had the skill, flare, passion, physicality and temperament to deal with all that. They went so hard at them they were dead on their feet, what a game it could have been in Brazil had spent more time on their feet.
That’s was one of the best games I’ve ever watched - who’s betting against Belgium now?
Cracking game, fairplay to Brazil despite the histrionics, they put Belgium under constant pressure in the second half.
Well deserved Belgium victory ...
But will Terry Henry really want this team to beat France ..?
Lukaku, that’s the bloke.
Can’t deny he wasn’t simply effective and challenged pretty much everything out there.
Was that Thiery Henri in the bench?
So 6 European sides left.
Was that Thiery Henri in the bench?
strike/forwards coach
If the eventual winners come from this side of the draw, god they will have earned it.
Good on ya Belgium. Glad to see the cheating shite Neymar going home.
My forecast for next rounds:
Quarter-final stage:
Uruguay will beat France by 2 goals. (France won 2 nil instead)
Belgium will beat Brazil by 1 goal. (Spot on!)
Croatia will beat Russia by 1 or 2 goals max.
England will beat Sweden by 1 goal. (Sweden being underdog is no walk over)
Semi-final stage:
Belgium will beat France by 1 goal but maximum 2.
Croatia will beat England by 2 goals.
Final will be ...
Belgium Vs Croatia
Croatia to win the World Cup ... hopefully 😀
Karma.
I strongly suspect that a less play-acting striker may have got one of those penalty decisions, but tough titty. The thunderous cacophony of chicken feet racing home to roost is music to anyone’s ears who deplores cheating.
Belgium v England in the final? Last time the final was between two teams whose national drink is beer? 1966.
It’s nailed on, isn’t it?
The banana skin is the Sweden game ..get through that and I think England can win it ..
Yip definite penalty
Which one? The last one? No chance - tiny contact followed by the usual swan dive and agony face.
The Kompany one was debateable, but given Neymar's conduct, officials were probably looking for any reason not to give it.
Belgium v England in the final? Last time the final was between two teams whose national drink is beer? 1966.
That is the dream final with England winning but somehow I feel English players sometimes get demotivated too soon too quickly.
If the English players would pour their hearts out they can beat Croatia.
Damm, Courtois what a nice humble chap there kind of hope they win it there....
Henri will be conflicted in the semi I suspect
Yip definite penalty
You still reckon he was gouging the eyes there? He was already warming up for the roll and appeal when he should have been concentrating on heading the ball. Cheating scumbag that has dived so much nobody believes him.
You still reckon he was gouging the eyes there? He was already warming up for the roll and appeal when he should have been concentrating on heading the ball. Cheating scumbag that has dived so much nobody believes him.
Diving boy was already preparing to pull a quick last minute penalty there ... LOL!
I’m really enjoying this tournament so far.
I’ve had the opportunity to listen to most games and watch the ones I’ve wanted to.
I do hope that the fights continue to be clean and well mannered.
👍
I’m really enjoying this tournament so far.
Yes, I agree because most of the big teams are out.
I do not want to see another previous winner to lift the World Cup.
England to lift the World Cup is fine ... 😀
You still reckon he was gouging the eyes there?
Gouging no, doesn't take much in that area of the face to blind someone for a second though.