2:1 to France. I can’t see either team doing much going off that performance!
Following on from the Spain Portugal match last night, we don’t seem to have a thread for the tournament in general.
So here we have a thread to discuss everything going on in Russia fir the next few weeks.
Starting in 30 minutes with France/Australia; lets go!
My prediction for this one is France by the odd goal.
2:1 to France. I can’t see either team doing much going off that performance!
Iceland may be at it again, currently one a piece against Argentina.
Just noticed that Peru are managed by César Luis Menotti (minus the fags).
Last edited by Raffe; 16th June 2018 at 17:09.
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Messi, sigh....
Cost me money that miss...
Watched Spain Portugal last night good match just watching Denmark Peru but in truth only the England games mean anything just as for me only the Chelsea games really mean anything in the EPL.
Watching Denmark against Peru in a pretty rough bar in Denmark. They’ve just gone mad!
Spain against Portugal, although a MUFC fan, I’ve grown to detest Ronaldo. His gamesmanship is effective, but unappealing.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Think the implementation of VAR in the World Cup where the referee goes over to view the evidence and then makes the decision is a better implementation than what we suffered in the FA Cup.
Currently watching the Peru vs Denmark game. The ref has been great (so far)
Well done to Iceland. They did well against Portugal in 2016. Could this be an omen for Argentina & Messi to improve and go on after that result?
Portugal vs Spain has been the stand out game so far.
Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk
Messi just never turns up for Argentina. They should have had a pen tho, rhe VAR seems good but someone must have picked up the pen near the end. Seems a bit pointless if stuff still gets missed
I think that Argentina as a team would be better off without Messi: The players would be forced to think for themselves, become creative. Now, all 10 players are focussing on Messi. However, the creativity is lurking beneath the surface. E.g. when Argentina scored (Agüero). Messi was not included in that attack. Every time Messi plays for the National Team, his performance is poor compared with his performance with Barcelona. Simply because Barcelona has more fantastic players.
I didn’t realise he’d already quit playing for Argentina before coming back, just does not seem to be able to do it when it matters mostly, like yesterday when he missed the pen and cost me my treble bet!!!
So far all the games except Spain/Portugal have been pretty dire/boring.
Has Ronaldo already won the golden boot? If not who can catch him.
Mexico looking like a very good team.
Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk
Mexico looking superb, fingers crossed they can keep this up for the second half, doubt it but hope I'm proven wrong...
Mexican's looking tired, hope they can hang on...
Muller fouls, and immediately goes to the ref pleading............. Grrr!
Well talk about a 'coupon buster' what a stunning result, well done to Mexico...
You beaut...
Wow .
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Great game......
The Germans expected to win
Mexico WANTED to win
Germany like old and weary.
One happy camper here! Not a fan of Germany, so this is wonderful. (Although I still expect that they're going to win the Cup...). Dutch comment on forehand: "...the Mexicans expect the Germans to be positioned far away from their own goal, leaving space between the players and the goalie." How right the comment/prophecy was! And... Lozano plays for a Dutch team.
Menno
Last edited by thieuster; 17th June 2018 at 20:14.
Omfg what a Goal for Brazil
With the exception of Spain (and Ronaldo on his own) I've not seen a team yet that I would think England would really struggle against. Brazil started well but look vulnerable at the back. Appreciate it's the early games and teams are more reserved but this looks to be an open tournament.
Been impressed with most of the refereeing sofar, particularly the fact that they seem
to be not giving free kicks when players fall over when an opponent just closes them
from behind. Think players already catching on to this so trying to play rather than buy the
free kick.
Wow the Swiss are level - eek!
I know it's still very early days in the competition,but i honestly haven't seen any team that England need to be frightened of.
I’m expecting them to be frightened of Tunisia tomorrow for a start and probably every other team they play!
I do think that with Germany losing and Brazil looking shaky, the smaller teams are going to be a little more confident that they can cause an upset!
So many fall down fairies, get them suspended when shown to be cheating.
What’s happening to these so called world superstar’s? Yesterday Messi cost me, now Neymar just cost me when backing him to have 2 shots or more on target, friggin useless, give me Ronaldo any day over these two...
Well done to Mexico, Iceland and Switzerland though...
No rugby players, that's for sure. But the Brazilian defender was pushed away on a decisive moment.
M