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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 12:56:47 GMT -5
England is a paper lion. Also the free kicks are frikin beautiful, latest classic found in Costa Rica vs Serbia. I’ll check that game out later. I’ve just woken up to the beautiful news that Mexico have beaten Germany 1-0 and Brazil v Switzerland is about to start. Half time update: Brazil leading 1-0 in Rostov courtesy of a wonderful outside the box strike from Phillipe Coutinho. Switzerland haven’t looked like threatening Brazil’s goal so far. Brazil now settled after the goal and are just passing the ball around without any sense of urgency, pacing themselves as a team that knows they are going all the way to end of the tournament. Hoping for another goal or two in the second half and for the Swiss to do anything that’s not boring. Update: and Switzerland have done that not boring lthing less than 5 minutes from the restart from a well taken corner kick. Good shit watchmen and game on! If I’ve learned anything from going to Brazil 9 times it’s that you’ve got to push the lazy cunts at times to get them out of their comfort zone. Full time update: 1-1 and fucken boring which is the worst thing you could say about a Brazilian team. Do they even want to win this thing? Can’t say anything bad about the Swiss, boring is par of the course for them. Onwards and upwards to Day 5 where we have the overrated Belgians v Panama, Sweden v South Korea which could be fun, and the first match of England v Tunisia. I’m pulling for Tunisia.
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Post by Aisleen on Jun 17, 2018 15:05:46 GMT -5
Jeez, this tournament so far has been anything but predictable. I never expected to think of the word "thrashing" when i think of Russia winning a match.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 15:10:05 GMT -5
Unpredictable is good and based on first match results which admittedly don’t hold much weight, we could be on track for a for a final featuring The likes of Mexico against Iceland. That would certainly be something heh. Seriously though this Cup appears to be anybody’s for the taking at this stage and that’s good for football.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 16:45:09 GMT -5
Argentine press wasted no time in cunting on their own, love that headline: Waiting for the equally talented Brazilian press' front pages tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 17:17:08 GMT -5
Also the free kicks are frikin beautiful, latest classic found in Costa Rica vs Serbia. I think Kolarov has outdone Ronaldo with this one, at least on difficulty points although that's hard to measure as Ronaldo needed that goal to tie up Spain. Excellent goals nonetheless. And wow what was up with Matic trying to brawl with the entire Costa Rican coaching staff near the end of the game? Spiteful stuff there I love it! Great counterattacking goal by Mexico, doing the thing that the Germans usually do these days, fantastic! And well done by them for holding the krauts off for the remaining hour of the game, a famous victory for them to be sure. Also where was the VAR for the obvious foul commited by Hummels on Javier Hernandez in the penalty box? It's a FIFA conspiracy I tells ya, and if there's any kind of piracy I hate, it's conspiracy.... Monkey Island represent yo. I fear this will make Germany hungrier to escape the curse that has been in place since 2002 where the defending champions have failed to progess past the group stage in each of those 4 cups. edit: that last part is incorrect, Brazil made it to the quarter final in 2006 as defending champions, but the curse still stands for 2002, 2010 and 2014. Come on Germany fulfill that prophecy! Cracking World Cup so far, and when the most boring game involves Brazil it's a good sign of things to come.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 18:04:31 GMT -5
On further reflection of the matches so far in this cup, I've noticed with the exception of France that all of the heavily fancied teams have failed to win their opening match. Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Germany and now Brazil, this must some kind of statistic. And France wasn't up to standard either against us. It will be interesting to see how Belgium and England fare tomorrow. This tournament is shaping up like the 2002 Korea/Japan underdogs World Cup, truly fascinating. In other wonderful news of the kind that only a World Cup can throw up, people in Mexico City have actually caused reported seismic activity at the exact time that Mexico scored against Germany, presumably from millions of Mexicans jumping with joy. In not so wonderful news the South Korean coach claims that westerners can't tell asians apart. Message to Shin Tae-yong: when you're reading this board next time because I know you do because who doesn't, I'll have you know that I can tell about you yourself. And that is that you are a cunt, a clever one but a cunt regardless.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2018 15:01:12 GMT -5
Well the poms pulled it off with 2-1 win over Tunisia, although it took until the very end to break the deadlock with Harry Kane heading that sucker in from a corner kick. I watched the last 20 minutes of this one where it was 1-1. That stage of the match was marked by England trying to get through Tunisia’s well constructed bus and Tunisia desperately trying to hold on for a point. Tunisia didn’t seem to have anyone to go to when they did try to get a run on with the counter, but they got what they deserved. Overly defensive teams can suck the big one, even if it is the best tactic they can use. It’s the football equivalent of door camp fights in Doom.
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Post by Aisleen on Jun 18, 2018 15:11:29 GMT -5
Welp, another day over: Sweden 1 vs 0 South Korea: Asian are always "the weaker side". Really, the Koreans didn't do too bad, some moments they were even a match, but they save themselves from giving a (VAR) pen to the Sweds. Belgium 3 vs 0 Panama: Finally a proper display of power. Lukaku got 2 goals here, but the true stars were Mertens, Hazard and De Bruyne. Panama was outclassed in every way. Still have my doubts, but good performance. Tunisia 1 vs 2 England: lol 28 year old Walker still too young, nearly got England burned at a stake, Mel Gibson style. You could just sleep through the match, then just wake up when you hear name "Kane" (its really loud heh, look at the press!).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2018 16:33:24 GMT -5
Thanks for the write up @aisleen! Looking forward to more from you, as it's better in your time zone seeing the matches as they happen. I'll catch up with the highlights soon. In Australia we've always watched the World Cup on the publicly funded broadcaster SBS. The indomitable Hungarian migrant Les Murray was the pioneering driving force behind pushing the round ball game in the land of the cunt when it was considered the game of the Eastern and Southern European immigrants, or wog ball as it was mockingly called by the Anglo descended Aussies. SBS gave him the platform when commercial networks wouldn't show it and he alone was responsible for growing the game in this country in my eyes and the eyes of many. In 2014 the government was looking to cut budgets all over the shop and this forced SBS to sell the majority of games in this World Cup to Optus. SBS used to show all games of the Cup live and now they only have 25 of the 64 games. Optus is not really a content provider as such, they are the number two telecommunications company in this nation, and they have had 4 years to prepare for this and have still managed to fuck it up. I was willing to pay for their service for the duration of the Cup, but they don't make it easy to sign up at all. They make it easy if you are a customer of theirs already, but if not you have to get a telephone, mobile phone or internet package through them to use their website to watch the games. Otherwise you have to download a buggy app through iTunes or Google Play, which I've had countless errors doing so in just downloading it that I've just given the fuck up on it. The poor streaming quality when it does work, software errors and massive public outcry has actually led to the issue being debated in the Federal Parliament, which is something that happens in Brazil but I never thought I'd see the day politicians are debating football in this country. Fuck Optus, fuck then Prime Minister Tony Abbott, fuck current Prime Minister and then Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull who is an aptly named politician if ever there was one. Now SBS gets to show all the games for the next 48 hour period instead of their allotted one match per day, but they should really get all of the matches back. In this country SBS is football.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2018 20:51:23 GMT -5
As @aisleen mentioned yet another VAR assisted penalty that resulted in a goal, this time for Sweden. This one was spot on but the technology leaves much to be desired so far. Human error is a strong factor in what makes football the game that it is. Imagine how poor the history and lore of the game would be if Maradona's famous Hand of God goal was overturned.
Belgium look to finally be a cohesive unit and perhaps this is their time. Mertens with an absolute stunner of a lobbed goal for the Belgians first, Romelu Lukaku with his usual silky smooth finishing skills for their second and third.
Day 6 will bring us Lewandowski's Poland v Senegal, Russia v Egypt which will be interesting to see if the Russians can keep up their opening match form and if Mohammed Salah is indeed fit. The pick of the matches on paper is Colombia v Japan.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2018 2:59:02 GMT -5
I've caught all the highlights and watched two games. Spain vs. Portugal is clearly the best game so far and may end up being the best of the whole tournament. England last night were pretty dire, but Tunisia we're getting away with murder. There were replays of Tunisian defenders climbing all over Kane, tackling him NFL style when he's nowhere near the ball and more. It was weak refereeing, cynical play from the opposition and mostly weak play from us. Still, it's pretty exciting watching Sterling fuck up over and over again, as we're waiting for that one flash of brilliance that may yet happen.
I feel like a collective vote from the citizens of England would've left Sterling behind. Not sure who we'd rather have... Linekar or Shearer still talk the talk and can't do any worse!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2018 3:16:25 GMT -5
Gareth Southgate is one sharp dressed cunt, I like that style. Just on fashion alone he should be voted manager of the tournament. Linekar and Shearer have had their careers and didn’t play in such a promising looking England team. 1996 was all hype and doesn’t count, and good old Alan and Garry would struggle as traditional strikers in the modern game, but still it must be great to talk shit and make money doing it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2018 7:12:03 GMT -5
Colombia is off to a disasterous start! In less than two minutes after the kick off the Japanese were building up to certain goal when Sanchez of Colombia stuck his arm out for a deliberate handball inside the box. He was shown a straight red card, sent off and Shinji Kagawa converted tye resulting penalty with ease. 1-0 down and a player down Colombia are truly behind the eight ball now!
half time update: 1-1 in an extraordinary match. Colombia by way of cheating their drug pushing arses off have managed to get themselves back into the game and even in control despite being a man down. I’ve mentioned the Brazilian jeitinho, but what Colombia are doing is just flagrant out and out dirty fucken cheating. The players are throwing themselves on the ground at a mere fart just grazing them with ridiculous over the top levels of acting and simulation. The free kick that resulted in Colombia’s extraordinarily cheeky equaliser was in fact on replay viewing a foul that should have been awarded to Japan! Unfuckenbeliveable! Japan are running around on the pitch like honourable gentleman with a one man advantage while getting fucked up the arse for the world to see whilst doing nothing about it to protect themselves. Dumb cunts get what they deserve!
Full time update: 2-1 win to Japan. The Blue Samurai looked to have gone through a war for this victory. They were the better side by far in the second half and got the goal they deserved from a corner kick which by rights should have been a penalty. Where the fuck was VAR on that one? The referee along with FIFA have to be absolutely incompetent or corrupt. Seriously in this match a Colombian could have pulled out a gun and shot a Japanese and the ref would still say no foul.
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Post by Aisleen on Jun 19, 2018 15:01:37 GMT -5
Colombia 1 vs 2 Japan: Undone by a Asian dwarf header! Oh, and the red card didn't hurt either. Really unfortunate for Colombia, props to their efforts, especially the really well done free kick. Let's see where Japan can go from here (probably still not far though). Poland 1 vs 2 Senegal: Devilish second goal there from Niang, novel and hilarious stuff. Senegal basically just need their speed and power, seems like they will be the only African team that could be in the next round. Poor Lewandowski didn't have many chances. Russia 3 vs 1 Egypt: Fine show from the Russians, they just boosted Putin's ego up to eleven. Egypt was punished for every mistake, something the Egyptians themselves couldn't do to their opponent. M. Salah is back with a goal... from a penalty. Ah Salah, if only you had a better team...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2018 15:31:13 GMT -5
Fuck Colombia, that thrift shop counterfeit version of Brazil with no class whatsoever... I don’t know how much coke money and/or coke they keep FIFA supplied with, but it must be a fuckton based on what the cunts got away with. Colombia were really fortunate... there was an obvious penalty before Japan’s second goal that ref or VAR didn’t give. Even Colombia’s goal came from a free kick that should have gone the other way and also should of had Radamel Falcao sent off for simulation. They were lucky to finish the game with 10 on the pitch, could easily have been 9 or 8. Awful own goal by Poland to gift Senegal their first, and a great description from Aisleen for Senegal's second... terrible mistakes by Poland have really cost them here. Good goal from Poland to pull one back, but they've done themselves in here... go Senegal! Another unlucky own goal deflection today gifts Russia their first. The other two goals by Russia were just incredible. You have to chalk up the way they are playing to the home country advantage, I've never seen a Russian team play like this ever. They look truly devastating with even a touch of flair. Wasn't much in the penalty decision that Salah was able to put away, very lucky there. The Salah/Messi comparisons are very apt as both are heads and shoulders above their national team counterparts and both will likely never win anything with them. A lot can be said about a certain Diego Armando Maradona, but he was able to win the World Cup basically on his own dragging a mediocre team along with him in 1986. Of the current so called superstars, only Cristiano Ronaldo seems capable of achieving the same feats. Coming up next on Day 7 will be when things start getting a bit more serious where all teams are playing their second match. Some teams will guarantee qualification to the second round, such as Russia have more or less done today, and others will guarantee themselves an early ticket home even before their third and final group stage matches. Portugal faces Morocco, Uruguay against Saudi Arabia, and Spain takes on Iran.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 8:07:57 GMT -5
1-0 to Portugal over Morocco at half time. Who else but Cristiano Ronaldo with a thunderous header from a corner kick in fourth minute of the match and looking very much like a cunt who came to win this whole thing, and Morocco who despite that early setback has come to play.
full time update: 1-0 the score remains. Entertaining second half, Morocco become the first team to be mathematically eliminated from this World Cup with one game remaining. They gave it a good shot but came up short the poor cunts. The Portuguese were dropping like flies trying to draw fouls at the faintest breeze passing by them, Ronaldo and Pepe with two laughably bad acting efforts, but thankfully the referee was having none of it. This kept the game relatively free flowing. Portugal still ain’t through yet and will probably need to at least not lose in their final group game against Iran.
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Post by Aisleen on Jun 20, 2018 13:04:43 GMT -5
Uruguay 1 vs 0 Saudi Arabia: La Celeste (aka Uruguay) lookin more like a European team than a South American team. Boring football, but slow and steady wins the race i guess. The Arabs just don't know how offense works, ending up the first Asian team to throw in the towel. Lucky bastard Suarez!
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Post by Aisleen on Jun 20, 2018 15:13:55 GMT -5
Portugal through now, thanks to the Spain's 1 vs 0 Iran. Good first half defense show from Iran actually, but that one sorta lucky goal from Costa basically changed everything, shirting the tides in Spain's favor. 2 dead Asian teams today, my condolences (Especially Iran's valiant effort). Edit: Forgot about Iran's win
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 18:33:00 GMT -5
Good stuff Totally not Aisleenpho! For clarification, in Group A Russia and Uruguay have secured qualification to the second round with a match remaining, which will be against each other, while Egypt will play the Saudis for nothing but pride and oil before they take the early plane home. Group B is not as conclusive at this stage other than the fact that Morocco is out but they can still cause problems for Spain. Spain, Portugal and Iran are all eligible for second round qualification which makes those last Group B matches very interesting. If Morocco take out Spain and Iran manage to beat Portugal in the last two Group B matches, either Spain or Portugal will be going home early again of which I will get immense personal enjoyment from. Not much to comment on the other two matches of the day other then good for Uruguay. Their football is often ugly but they manage to get the job done. Coming up to Day 8 things get a bit more interesting for this old cunt: Argentina v Croatia which will be a tight affair one would imagine. Diego Armando Fucking Maradona (that is his legal name btw) has had this to say about Argentine coach Jorge Sampaoli after their first match debacle against Iceland: That's football folks! Just remember it's not life or death, oh no that would be silly. It is much more important than that. A mate made the comment that Maradona looks like an old lesbian these days. I told him that he looks like the Argentine version of Kim Jong Un. You folks be the judge. The other two matches hold much more importance for me as they will decide the Aussies fate for this Cup. Peru v France in which I hope the Peruvians overcome their Brazil2014-esque emotional state and give a hiding to the frogs. Australia faces Denmark and us Aussies need to fucking win, a draw will not be acceptable.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2018 7:55:49 GMT -5
1-1 Australia v Denmark at half time and by rights the Aussie cunts should already be packing their bags and heading home because they just don’t know how to play football. Danish Star Christian Eriksen was woefully unmarked as he smashed home Denmark’s goal in the seventh minute... good going Aussies, you had one specific job and that was to watch that cunt! We then proceeded to play like 10 year old kids who have only seen a football a handful of times in their lives. Near the end of the half FIFA was on our side with the VAR and Captain Jedinak has a 100% penalty conversion rate for a reason so we tied it up, undeservingly I might add. Let’s see if we can salvage a point from this one as it’s hard to foresee Australia getting a winner here with our childish ball skills. Football just doesn’t want to progress in this country.
full time update: 1-1 it stays. Much better from the Aussies in the second, the Danes didn’t see many chances but when they did they were dangerous. Game changed when the youngest player at this World Cup Daniel Arzani was brought on to the pitch and the Aussies created half a dozen decent chances from then on. It stuns me how this kid has not started both matches. A lot of questions from Aussie fans as to why Tim Cahill has not seen any game time as of yet... we’re still a chance to progress, but victory in the final match against Peru is mandatory and even then it may not be enough.
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Post by Aisleen on Jun 21, 2018 14:00:47 GMT -5
0-0 at half time for the Argentina vs Croatia match. Thrilling and fast paced stuff, just missing the goals. Also looks like Peru has to wait another 36 years after their 0-1 defeat by the French
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Post by Aisleen on Jun 21, 2018 15:05:21 GMT -5
Argentina 0 vs 3 Croatia: Croatia was just better than sub-par Argentina. Disastrous move by goalkeeper Caballero was the turning point, and with movement frozen by fear and pressure, Argentina couldn't get back up. Also, Messi is not Ronaldo, deal with it! Welp, fantastic goal from Modric. Pure football art right there. That poor crying Argentinian kid. Its just not your country's time yet.
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Post by capodecima on Jun 21, 2018 15:43:10 GMT -5
argentina+messi= always failure, i like messi tho, i hope he will still play in argentina after WC and dont retire. I really enjoyed tho france vs peru today. France played really nice and fast football. I enjoyed this match. But some ppl says they were way too defensive when scored first goal..wellll
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2018 17:16:09 GMT -5
Good to see fresh blood in this thread! Thanks to the 1-0 victory by France over Peru, the Aussies face a monumental task to progress in the tournament as well as needing other results to go our way. First step in this slightly arcane process depends on Australia defeating Peru. If that doesn't happen the process stops right here. Step 2 requires France to beat Denmark in the other final group match. A draw will not suffice and will eliminate the Aussies. If these results occur, Australia will have needed to defeat Peru by two goals or more or France will have defeated Denmark by two goals or more, then we will qualify. If it's only one goal victory in both of these required results, Australia and Denmark will finish on equal points and goal differences, then it gets silly. The first part in separating teams who finish equally in this way will be to progress the team which has the better disciplinary record i.e fewest yellow and red cards. If it's still equal then two balls go into a pot to be drawn and the one that gets pulled out stays, the other goes home. Argentina-Croatia looked a fantastic game from the highlights, what a brain fart from Argie goalkeeper Caballero for Croatia's first! As Aisleen mentioned incredible goal for Modric. The encounter became increasingly spiteful in the final portion of the match going by the highlights with an Argentine player almost kicking a Croat in the head like you kick an American Football! Croatia have guaranteed qualification with their win over Argentina, although the Argies aren't eliminated yet. The other 3 Group D teams besides the Croats still have it all to play for. Day 9 will see Nigeria take on the giant boys of Iceland in the remaining Group D match. Hoping to see the Icelanders using their superior genetics (hi hardcoregamer !) to take it to Nigerians and shore up progression. In Group E action Serbia takes on the Swiss and motherfucken Brazil have a chance to pull their finger out against Costa Rica.
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