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Ooh, Columbia realised there was a world cup on and turned up at last.

I guess we know where Russia stand now?

Uruguay are cheating b*****ds though tbf.

Plenty of VAR-induced drama in the Morocco - Spain and Portugal - Iran. Morocco found its scoring prowess at last and gave Spain a really hard time. De Gea has the confidence of an acne-ridden teenager asking the hottest girl in class for dinner.

Portugal didn't do much besides an awesome screamer of a goal, and Ronaldo choked at the PK spot so on injury time a VAR-allowed PK for Iran at roughly the same time the VAR refs allowed a goal for Spain which had initially deemed offside means Portugal gets 2nd place and faces Uruguay next round.

Such are the ways of football.

Phew. Things are back to normal again. The Russian team sucks. Thank God, I was almost getting hopeful here. Good to be back in reality.

Spain... Pain. De Gea has won sitting. Really, Spain thinks they can just win walking. Against Russia we have options to pass. Croatia and Belgiun are the two strongest teams on the Spanish side. On the other side Urugay and England

France Vs Argentina and Croatia Vs Denmark.

I reckon Croatia and France will press onwards for glory. Argentina are so lucky to have escaped.

Maybe semi-final Cratia vs Belgium

The curse lives on.

Snrk snrk snrk.
Germany getting knocked out is pretty funny.

Apparently, Sweden's won. Or something. I know nothing of football, but the shouting and cheering from my neighbours probably meant something good happened. I could just Google it, but where's the fun in that?

An emphatic win by Sweden.

And Germany is surprisingly out (good thing I don't bet, lol!)

SCHADE DEUTSCHLAND ALLES IST VORBEI!

So hilarious that Germany got knocked out by South Korea. South Korea is my new favourite country.

I am so looking forward to winding up my students tomorrow. The one south korean kid is going to be beaming as broadly as the one mexican kid was a week ago

Germany likes Spain 4 years ago. Slow. No idea even the Coach. And Ozil... Ozil likes a ghost.

Germany out in the group stage. That's definitely a turn up for the books.

There often considered a favourite.

They did worse than England...

Like... Worse... Than England.

1. there is no curse.
2. somebody lost against Austria before.... so maybe it wasn't a real surprise when they .. made Mexico Happy. And then South Korea. Sorry Sweden.
3. nix is vorbei! The fun will start right now. 80 Million Coaches who will exactly know what went wrong.

One of the good things about it being Sweden vs. Switzerland is that it's going to be really, really difficult for anyone to mix the two up, for once.

 1hadhq wrote:

3. nix is vorbei! The fun will start right now. 80 Million Coaches who will exactly know what went wrong.

Ahh, every football fan is a potential coach. Same here.

My Dad is german, so I am very sad for him. Hope Spain can arrive till semi-final

 jhe90 wrote:
Germany out in the group stage. That's definitely a turn up for the books.

There often considered a favourite.

They did worse than England...

Like... Worse... Than England.

Exalted for being just way too sarcastic and funny. Mostly sarcastic, but funny af!

Today plays England vs Belgium. Both want to be second. Will be funny to see how they will get it to loose.

It is a shame, this should be a very good match.

That was decidedly odd. Belgium's B team against England's B team. It makes it more difficult to work out where the teams sit when the players that were put out to play clearly wanted to win, but for both sides were clearly not the optimum teams. I still think Belgium are a serious prospect. I also reckon the winner this year will be from the middle pack of teams, so someone like France or Belgium.

Shieldwolf Miniatures wrote:

 jhe90 wrote:
Germany out in the group stage. That's definitely a turn up for the books.

There often considered a favourite.

They did worse than England...

Like... Worse... Than England.

Exalted for being just way too sarcastic and funny. Mostly sarcastic, but funny af!

Lol, thanks

Henry wrote:That was decidedly odd. Belgium's B team against England's B team. It makes it more difficult to work out where the teams sit when the players that were put out to play clearly wanted to win, but for both sides were clearly not the optimum teams. I still think Belgium are a serious prospect. I also reckon the winner this year will be from the middle pack of teams, so someone like France or Belgium.

Yeah, both sides where not playing a A game.

Both sides where just passing the match. There good players rested. Both coaches where basically on cruise mode.

Well one big team Germany down. Theres a final 8 slot that's not open normaly. They often even make final 4 potentially.

 jhe90 wrote:


Yeah, both sides where not playing a A game.

Both sides where just passing the match. There good players rested. Both coaches where basically on cruise mode.

Well one big team Germany down. Theres a final 8 slot that's not open normaly. They often even make final 4 potentially.

A bit of an odd game. England lost, but probably won. Belgium won, but probably lost. Strange to hear Belgium fans cheering when a player got a yellow card. England were 1-0 down and passing the ball between them at the back.

I think the managers had the following rules:-

Don't get injured,
Don't get booked
Rashford, don't score

 Whirlwind wrote:

 jhe90 wrote:


Yeah, both sides where not playing a A game.

Both sides where just passing the match. There good players rested. Both coaches where basically on cruise mode.

Well one big team Germany down. Theres a final 8 slot that's not open normaly. They often even make final 4 potentially.

A bit of an odd game. England lost, but probably won. Belgium won, but probably lost. Strange to hear Belgium fans cheering when a player got a yellow card. England were 1-0 down and passing the ball between them at the back.

I think the managers had the following rules:-

Don't get injured,
Don't get booked
Rashford, don't score

Yeah, because th probbly role them to both take it easy, no real risks. They had it in thr bag. No one pushed too hard, just a kick about at times.

Just a single clean, low risk game. Don, t push it too hard, Don,t blunt your edge.

These no-risk games are boooooooring.

 Iron_Captain wrote:
These no-risk games are boooooooring.

Boring but they secured there spot early..

England tactics are not as intresting as last match decidersnif we pass like normal, but show we have learned quite abit.

Very tactically sound game by England and Belgium, but my goodness do I regret getting up at 0600 and watching that.
Looks like everyone of the round of sixteen games are going to be good to watch with Sundays (NZ time) games being the pick.

 Iron_Captain wrote:
These no-risk games are boooooooring.

Could be, depends if someone wants/needs to prove himself... when my friends and I saw that major players sat on the bench, we switched and watched Panama vs Tunisia instead. Not as tactical I guess but a very passionate game, we enjoyed it.

Likes I said. I was thinking England-Belgium will ends 0-0. But Belgium wanted to win. I don't understand. England did everything for being second.

We will see who really won this match.

France-Argentina was a good match. Lots of nice goals. The one from Pavard was just beautiful. France won deservedly. Argentina has Messi and some other talented players, but no team. They just lacked coordination. I kinda felt bad for Messi.