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TBH I’m going off Neymar.
C'mon Costa Rica ... rest of my office agrees ... there's a thing cheering against Brazil !!??
Neymar should've been off - 1 x yellow for diving, 1 x yellow for mouthing off to the ref
He’s like a petulant toddler. He should have been off for cumulative nobishness
Going to miss all three games today 🙁
Have we all seen these?
🙄 ??
anyway just got in to see Iceland a goal down and doing their chant...awesome! Nigeria looking comfortable though.
Musa playing brilliantly...hits the bar then scores fabulous solo effort.
Just seen Musa’s first goal......wowser!
VAR working is good. Neymar shown up to be the bawbag that he is. And defo a penalty for Iceland. The taker was a clear flapper mind you and stick o. To sky it. Was still a penalty though!
Good lad Mitro ..thats another couple of Mil on your transfer fee ...great header.
now honestly - was that total airshot (airhead) any worse that Caballero's error, or De Gea's fumble, or Karius's flap
But can you even remember who it was now, 2 minutes later?
Bloody hell! Pick that out! 😳
Another absolutely top drawer finish there from Seitzerland ! Goal of the tournament already has some pretty serious contenders. And theyve not come from the usual suspects.
I try and defend the officials, it's a tough job, but did all the VAR team nip out for a piss briefly?
Shaquiri is awesome, that shot on the turn would have been an amazing goal, Xhaka’s goal was fantastic....it’s all awesome stuff so far.....loving it!
Great game - Serbs v Swiss.
the lukaku interview looks worth watching tomorrow.
Righto then. Looks like we’ll have to be happy with being runners up. Belgium absolutely mullering Tunisia.
I think the ref handled Tunisia much better today.
Can't see England matching Belgium for finishing....
Yeah but they do look like they will concede so it's going to be tough, other part is the England and Belgium players know a lot about each other
In the office:
“We’re gonna win!”
”England look crap lol acting like they’ve won the World Cup at every goal.”
“Belgium will destroy England.”
“Well they better win tomorrow.”
😳
Depending how that other group goes, losing to Belgium could be no bad thing. The further we manage to stay away from ze Germans the better.
The further we manage to stay away from ze Germans the better.
Lets see how they turn up against Sweden first, though knocking the stuffing out of Belgium would do a lot of good for England, momentum works
We do, of course, have to beat Panama first.
Bit unfair....
Looking like Mexico to top the group at this rate, if Sweden get something out of the game it's very bad news for the Germans
SK are like their early cars....get around well, but no quality!
Oops Spoke to soon....great strike!
I think that was just because of the amount of time Terry Butcher kept saying 2 clean sheets.
Going to be a very big game this evening
Germans will be like a wounded tiger they'll probably go on to win the whole thing now.
It will be interesting to see if they can respond tonight, I am not sure they will. Other than Werner up front they are not blessed with any real speed in the squad.
The view from some of my German colleagues is that Low isn't a great manager, he hasn't underachieved, but he hasn't overachieved with the players he has either. Germany has a good structure behind the scenes and pretty much any manager could have achieved what he has.
I wanted South Korea to win.
I want Sweden to win too.
Come on Swedes......you can do it!
Oh dear - that looked like penalty
At full speed I thought it was 50/50, on the replay it was a definite pen.
Has there actually been any penalties awarded by var? I have seen them overturned, and I have seen a few that should have been given, but I don't think I have seen one awarded that the ref has missed yet.
I thought it was a penalty ...went through the player!
Yep penalty for me, but a busy start by germany but they are getting away up the other end
31 mins BOOM 👍👍👍👍💥☄️
Good finish that. Germans look annoyed, don't think they are going to take that lying down.
Jebus Germany!
Has there actually been any penalties awarded by var?
Yes, a couple at least - Australia scored one, Iceland missed one.....
Germany last went out in the group stages in 1938....... are we sure we want to risk annoying them again?
Might be a bit early for that moley!
lol at jonv! 😄
Bit frantic first half.. bet they’re knackered 🤣🥊
Lol
Soon to be sayonara Deutschland. 😀
Germany are very lucky to be only one down. That was a nailed on penalty, because they were absolutely all over the place at the back
I didn’t think I’d ever say that about a German defence 😳
Oohhh ek.
Arrrrgghhhh ... Deutschland scored ... 🙁
Hell of a game, 2 styles hitting full on here
The last 15 mins have been played in the Swedish half..
😳
The German team don’t seem to want to let the ball anywhere near their own half 🍔
Ahh, he deserved that.
Big issue there, VAR again but right call in the end
It wasn't a red card offence ..ahh hadn't realised it was two yellows first ..concentrate hodgy !
I do hope Sweden take advantage though..
Swedes have looked knackered and slow all half. Come on Sweden!
5 minutes!! Come on Sweden
C'mon Sweden.......
Great game of fitba
Chuffing hek... that was an awesome goal 💪
(not that I wanted it)
Massively disappointed in the Grips house but it's a fair result. Sweden didn't have much.
OMG 😮
...and there you go. They play right to the end and beyond.
Never ever write them off!
I think I hate the germans
couldn't you have held on against 10 men for one more minute!!
I'm off to burn my furniture.
It’s what they do.
I’ve got the feeling they’re now going to go on to win the whole thing, just to be really really bloody annoying
I know I hate the Germans. Just in a football kind of hatred though.
You’ll have probably guessed I’m not a football fan, but I’ve been watching most of the games since the start and that game was the most frantic and fast paced and nerve wracking as I’ve ever seen.
Fit boys aren’t they.
Blimey, they need a week of and a few beers I’d imagine.
Good result though IMO, even though I wanted Sweden to win .. Germany were relentless and committed.
Is it really that different to the England goal in their first game! But what a cracker. Even my German wife had a smile (which doesn't happen very often 🙂 )
^^ 😂. Mine too!
Ten seconds before the he hit the free kick I said to my GF that there was a goal coming.
Should have put some money on it...!
Favourites to go through now anyhow, even if Sweden beat Mexico (doubt they will)it's a goal difference shootout, and you'd expect the Germans to take a few off Korea.
I had a great line about Germany not doing very well in Russia....
Then I also had one about set pieces as they wasted so many too,
morning all, we all ready for the main event?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44439183
BBC reckons Sterling will start, which I could probably get if they want to give him one last chance to get into the goals for England, Rashford on late would hopefully let them cut through a tiring Panama.
Rumours of a weaker Belgium for the last game keep coming up too
I think they should play a front three of Rashford, Kane and Sterling. so play a 3-4-3. Play three proper centerbacks, Maguire, Cahil and Stones. In midfield Henderson holding, Cheek bridging to the front three, the midfield wide men would be the difficult question, they wouldn't have to get forward as much due to Rashford and Stones playing wide, but would need help out centrally, so I would probably go with Delph on the left and Trippier on the right.
For me the big difference will be Cheek for Ali, everyone is jumping on the bandwagon scapegoating sterling, but the whole team looked worse in the first match after Ali got injured, and didn't look better until he was replaced.
Rumours of a weaker Belgium for the last game keep coming up too
If we beat Panama, maybe we should give some other players run outs too, hard balance as to whether you keep a winning formula going for momentum, or keep the squad fresh. What is the score with yellow cards being carried into the next stages as well?
https://www.sbnation.com/2018/6/14/17452584/world-cup-rules-yellow-card-suspensions
2 Yellows = one match suspension
Reset at the Semis
Oh well, good to see England letting them tire themselves out early on there 🙁 need to get shot of those mistakes
Oh look a goal! Still think this England team will be torn a new arsehole by Belgium or any other half decent team.
BBQ’s have started down here, though I think it’s more to do with it being a lovely sunny day than a football game.
If g’urland scrape a 0-0 draw I guess that’s a “win” innit ?
I’m looking forward to Jpn vs Sen, so off for a run and back in time for sushi 🍣
Still think this England team will be torn a new arsehole by Belgium or any other half decent team.
Yes in this game, but Belgium also looked sloppy at the back, some of always seems to be you bring your game for the opposition, I'd expect it to be another level against Belgium and 2 Euro teams will be a very different style
No doubt about that, belter!