FIFA World Cup 2022 - Diego still the GOAT

[james]

USA about to teach Europe a valuable lesson

[Snoopycat_]

ITV are really struggling to fill the pre kick off show

[Potato]

The Dutch performing to their usual world cup standards I see?

[james]

Freedom delivered

[Snoopycat_]

About the only thing that can be said is England aren’t going to have any problems with the US

[Kurt Russell]

Freedom delivered

[james]

Freedom delivered

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Equality delivered

Perfectly balanced as all things should be

Mexico-Poland will be 2-2

Costa Rica-Spain will be 3-3

Belgium - Canada will be 4-4

Thats the power of CONCACAF

[headwalk]

fun situation coming up where usa have 1 point going into their final game, with perfidious albion and taffy knowing that a draw puts them 1 and 2 in the group.

[Raist]

USA about to teach Europe a valuable lesson

lol.

[james]

USA about to teach Europe a valuable lesson

lol.

Those who understand soccer are in awe of USA the master

[MMaRsu]

Belgian shirt banned because it has LOVE written on the inside



They (and more countries) should just leave and pack their bags. Fuck Fifa and fuck Qatar

[Potato]

At some point these teams have to call FIFA's bluff and just say, "fuck it, yellow card us all".

It only takes one game to turn into a farce for this to all end.

[Nintex]

Belgian shirt banned because it has LOVE written on the inside

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They (and more countries) should just leave and pack their bags. Fuck Fifa and fuck Qatar

Are we sure Love is the problem and not the orange after yesterdays performance?

[NekoFever]

lolgentina 

[BIONIC]

Match was pretty sick actually. Saudis would’ve been fucked without that offside detection tech though

[MMaRsu]

Belgian shirt banned because it has LOVE written on the inside

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They (and more countries) should just leave and pack their bags. Fuck Fifa and fuck Qatar

Are we sure Love is the problem and not the orange after yesterdays performance?

I didnt watch that shit

[Uncle]

Belgian shirt banned because it has LOVE written on the inside

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They (and more countries) should just leave and pack their bags. Fuck Fifa and fuck Qatar

thank goodness qatar isn't hosting the tennis world championships

[Madrun Badrun]

dafuck happened with Argentina? 

[james]

México has been coasting on Ochoa for over a decade

[james]

All Mexico has to do is beat Argentina and eek out a tie with Saudi Arabia

[james]

Europe in shambles

[Madrun Badrun]

Look at that

[Madrun Badrun]

fuck

[HaughtyFrank]

Not going so hot for Australia

[Raist]

Not going so hot for Australia

[james]

Oceania in shambles

[BIONIC]

Frenchies not fucking around. Aussie GK is worthless

[Snoopycat_]

Did people actually think the Aussies stood any kind of chance against France?


 

[Madrun Badrun]

No, but people can dream

[Potato]

Oceania in shambles

We are officially Asian in football terms.

[Potato]

Did people actually think the Aussies stood any kind of chance against France?


 

We are terrible and our coach is the equivalent of a Sunday league "coach".

[Snoopycat_]

Canadians

[Potato]

No, but people can dream

Nobody was dreaming. We were praying that it wouldn't be too embarrassing. The general consensus was that it would have been better if we didn't actually qualify.

[Potato]

Dutch directness in action
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheEuropeanLad/status/1595042994801238016

[HardcoreRetro]

This Germany - Japan match has been quite good so far.

[Madrun Badrun]

yes it is

[Madrun Badrun]

What is the deal with the added minutes being so long?

[Madrun Badrun]

Nice

[BIONIC]

Weebs rejoice 

The German GK playing offense at the end

[Propagandhim]

Amazing. 

[james]

What is the deal with the added minutes being so long?

Its Qatar, so $$$$$$

More time to show the display board ads

[jorma]

What is the deal with the added minutes being so long?

FIFA is trying to get a grip on winning teams stalling for time. It's supposed to make Neymar rolling around in pain for two minutes pointless, since the ref will add those two minutes at the end anyway.

It was even wilder 10 years ago when players would act like their leg was broken, medic would run in and apply some magic spray and the player would bounce up like nothing had happened, and run the clock for two minutes just like that 
Shit got a little better when they added the rule that injured players had to be carried off the pitch regardless, but it wasn't enough. Will be interesting to see if this added time changes anything in terms of player behavoiur.

[james]

What is the deal with the added minutes being so long?

FIFA is trying to get a grip on winning teams stalling for time. It's supposed to make Neymar rolling around in pain for two minutes pointless, since the ref will add those two minutes at the end anyway.

It was even wilder 10 years ago when players would act like their leg was broken, medic would run in and apply some magic spray and the player would bounce up like nothing had happened, and run the clock for two minutes just like that 
Shit got a little better when they added the rule that injured players had to be carried off the pitch regardless, but it wasn't enough. Will be interesting to see if this added time changes anything in terms of player behavoiur.

I think it has, Ive seen less stalling for sure.

Dont forget the late substitute where the player is in the far corner and walks super slowly while clapping at the stands

[james]

Not looking great for CONCACAF

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ  CANADA TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ   

[Madrun Badrun]

I'm pretty confident that Canada can take Belgium.

[Raist]

I'm pretty confident that Canada can take Belgium.

 

[NekoFever]

What is the deal with the added minutes being so long?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/22/world-cup-qatar-fifa-new-directive-stoppage-time

The reason, Fifa has confirmed, is down to a new directive to ensure all “unnatural lost time” is added at the end of each half. In Qatar it has asked officials to more accurately monitor when a game is stopped for goal celebrations, time wasting, video assistant referee decisions, substitutions, penalties and red cards – even if it means extending a match by many minutes.

Basically they're trying to make the added time more accurately reflect the actual time when play wasn't happening (injuries, substitutions, goal celebrations, setting up free kicks, etc) to discourage time wasting. It's just everyone's used to football where they have four goals, six substitutions and players pretending to be injured to run down the clock but only having four minutes added.

[HaughtyFrank]

Weebs rejoice 

The German GK playing offense at the end

 Neuer is the most aggressive GK I've ever seen. Love the madman

[Raist]

Neuer is the most aggressive GK I've ever seen.

That "honour" goes to another German GK.

[Potato]

Canadia play some good football. Really enjoying this game.


This is a really tough group with Croatia and Morocco too

[Snoopycat_]

First the Saudis, then the Japs and now Canada are outclassing Belgium. The world makes no sense anymore

[HaughtyFrank]

Neuer is the most aggressive GK I've ever seen.

That "honour" goes to another German GK.

Ok, that's where being aggressive stops being fun. Knocked that guys teeth out, oof

[Madrun Badrun]

FUCK

[Snoopycat_]

Canada would have had an easy 3-1 lead if they had a striker who didn’t boot every shot at the goal like he’s 50 yards out

[Madrun Badrun]

TBF we have only had 16 attempts

[Madrun Badrun]

Also, TBF we have only had 25 attempts

[james]

Canada is the Italy of North America

[Raist]

FIFA cranking up the cognitive dissonance to 11.

https://theathletic.com/3927947/2022/11/23/fifa-mexico-ecuador-discipline-homophobic-chants/

[Madrun Badrun]

  well at least it was good game to watch

[Potato]

Canada played well, but were just a little naive in front of goal. Hopefully they can pick themselves up and play like that in their next two games. If they do that, they have a good chance of going through.