They do get accumulated till quarterfinals. Semi-finals is where the slate is wiped clean to ensure players won’t miss final due to accumulated yellows. They can only miss it through a red in semis.
How is Alex Telles ruling out a big blow to Brazil? I get it every injury hurts in somehow, but is it in big blow level? Same for GabrielJesus tbh, their attack is stacked rn, will they even notice Gabriel's absence?
Aside from it being the biggest shock in World Cup history, Saudi vs Argentina I’d say is the best game of the group stages. Atmosphere felt like it was the World Cup final, and Saudi pulling off one of the greatest defensive performances in recent memory makes it sound like a fairytale. Sensational stuff.
Not definitely the biggest shock in World Cup history. Argentina weren't reigning champions or even nailed on favourites to win the tournament - just one of top 5 teams in world. Cameroon vs Argentina (1990) and Senegal vs France (2002) were probably bigger upsets
Many are saying Messi v Ronaldo final will be peak football. As a huge fan I would love to see that but I think I’m terms of quality Brazil v France final would be the peak of football.
People criticise him for some things but apart from a dissenting voice like Hamann who wants him gone immediately the consensus seems to be that he should get the home Euro in 2024.
All Polish referee trio for Argentina - Australia. Probably and hopefully won’t be the case since we accidentally helped them go through, but isn’t there a bit of a huge conflict of interest there? Imagine if we had knocked them out or thrashed them 7-0 or something, surely refs from the country we’ve just played shouldn’t be eligible for our next match?
Today Tó Silva will continue to demonstrate that he is our future main CB alongside Ruben, that he is our current 3rd CB (way clear of Danilo) and that he is the best young CB in the world
Is To short of Antonio in Portuguese? And why the hell your coach doesn't play Leao? Does he hate him or love him so much that he wants to keep by his side?
people in Argentina trying to find something to banter Australia with and accidentally studying Australian history and finding out about the war on Emus, the World Cup is truly a beautiful thing
I haven't seen people really talk about it, but the "Rodri at CB" experiment really isn't working that well for Spain. Yesterday he slowed down for Japan's second goal, unaware that there was a player making a run behind him. He could have easily intercepted the ball otherwise.
I think enrique feels like both Rodri and Busquets need to be on the pitch, but I'm with you. Rodri's distribution out the back is really nice, but it's a pure luxury at this point, and doesn't add much given our quality in midfield. I would definitely rather him play a little further up the field and have some more solidity at the back.
I think today is the day we'll actually find out if Portugal can compete for this WC or not, if South Korea want to remain in the competition they can't just stay in their box, they'll need to attack so we'll finally have some space up front, let's see what we do with it.
I think its the opposite, today is the day we learn the least useful information about Portugal. They are qualified already, their priority today isn't winning, its avoiding injuries and yellow cards and keeping their key players fresh. The only thing that might pressure Portugal into taking risks is if they see Ghana is winning their match while they are down to Korea, as I'm sure they want to avoid Brazil.
If Portugal finish first in their group this could potentially shape up to a Portugal - Argentina final. I'm not a fan of either but I think a world cup final Messi vs Ronaldo would be peak football.
So glad that Uruguay are reverting to the 4-2-2-2 they used during previous matches under Alonso before the world cup, and that Godin is not starting. And that De Arraccaeta and Pellestri are starting in the false winger positions.
I honestly think this WC is anybodies. I think we'll see a surprise winner, like Greece at the Euros all those years ago. Especially if France get knocked out. This has been one of the best tournaments I've watched, just a shame about the controversy around Qatar.
I love witnessing meltdowns from the sideline more than almost anything. It's one of the main reasons I like football. If Suarez does something illegal or completely psychotic against Ghana then I'm all for it. Sorry not sorry
It's not just lacking this striker but also the defensive solidity of past teams, Germany looked shaky at the back in each game whereas the 2010/2014 Germany was almost impossible to create against
Musiala is obviously great but at least in these WC games he’s relied far too much on his dribbling. he doesn’t seem to know how to do much else and while he has a lot of successful dribbles he also loses possession a fuckton.
Klinsmann was right about Iran's ref crowding antics. I'm Iranian. They're kinda known for it. Constant bickering. Most of you aren't Iranian and have barely ever watched Iran play, so you thought it was a senseless attack. I grew up watching Iran play. What he said is true. Even my football-loving parents know it. Some of you guys got waaay too worked up about things you don't even have a clue about. It's not your job to defend poor little Iran and attack big bad Klinsmann. You'd be calling these types of comments based if he was talking about the US or something. You guys are surprised when Iran forget how to string 3 passes together and play hoofball while everyone I know expects it, how am I supposed to take your anti-Klinsmann comments seriously when you know fuck all about the Iranian team?
I think the issue mostly stemmed from Klinsman speaking in a language that’s not his own. He kept referring to the ‘culture’ of Iran, meaning the culture of the team , as you reference. But people took it to mean the culture of the Iranian people generally
My midfielder has 2 goals and 2 assists in 2 games with 2 motm performances securing his nations qualification. Their midfielder has less asists than maguire.
Depends if you take in account their overall form or NT form. If I was Scaloni and could build on top of the current team, the only players I’d 100% take for the starting XI would be Kane and James (Trent or any of the billion right backs you have if you consider James’ injury). There’s room for debate for a lot of others I guess but I wouldn’t drop anyone else from out starting XI for any of the english players.
Listening to some podcasts, Ghana fans and players sound so bitter about 2010. Luis Suarez was correct back then in saying, yes, he made the foul but he was punished and Ghana were given a penalty they missed. It's not his fault.
Fair play to Haaland picking Norway, basically resigning himself to the fact that he'll never win an international tournament and he probably won't even compete at many.
That would've been awesome to have both of those lads! Probably the only time where it would be justifiable for England to play two strikers up top, with Kane in a slightly deeper role!
Germany not winning against Japan cost them dearly. I thought they were better against Spain and played well against Costa Rica except for the defense.
They are, though. Dutch media and fans are very critical, and you should see the bracket threads here. They're already saying Argentina has a free path to the semis. Even the Yanks are joining in, would you believe.
So obviously I support Australia against Argentina but if Argentina win, am I allowed to support Argentina for the rest of the tournament because I like Messi?
The most mental thing about that Japan did it cross the line/did it not cross the line is the pass the lad plays. On the stretch and has to hit it into the ground to get the ball to pop into the air to avoid the other Japan player on the ground.
With the gap in European and South American teams vs the rest of the world becoming smaller and smaller, the 4 group set up would be much more exciting. A very big part of me hopes Senegal goes all the way this world cup.
twitter is full of islamofascists and right wingers celebrating that germany hasn’t qualified. Hope one day they move to a place together so they stop bothering everybody else
They’re celebrating their downfall because of their pro - LBTQ agenda. I’m celebrating their downfall due to English bitterness about their previous success. We are not the same
I really wish Croatia outclassed us yesterday, seeing how close we were and how much better we were with Lukaku on the pitch hurts. Ofc Martinez is to blame because he's never found a good plan B to play without Romelu but we could have done a lot of things if he was in his 2021 form for the tournament. His injury killed our world cup.
Morocco could cause the following countries to be knocked out: Belgium - Spain - Portugal - England/France - Netherlands. African revenge run against the colonizers.
Genuinely nothing better for us and our mentality that we're entering the knockout stages with a 0-0 draw, if we blew Belgium away we would already be crowning ourselves the champion.
Hey people. Just... be cool, okey? Remember the human on the other side.
Well there be any underdog surprises in the round of 16?
Broke: Germany can't make it of the groups lol they suck.
What happens if yellow cards at this stage. Do they accumulate?
They do get accumulated till quarterfinals. Semi-finals is where the slate is wiped clean to ensure players won’t miss final due to accumulated yellows. They can only miss it through a red in semis.
:USA:
Can we get this post updated to show the bracket?
So, BBC did a prediction for Round of 16 and they are saying that the Argies are winning over Kangaroos 5-0. Damn.
Disrespect smh
Pelé is in a bad shape health wise
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How is Alex Telles ruling out a big blow to Brazil? I get it every injury hurts in somehow, but is it in big blow level? Same for GabrielJesus tbh, their attack is stacked rn, will they even notice Gabriel's absence?
Who will play instead of Telles?
Aside from it being the biggest shock in World Cup history, Saudi vs Argentina I’d say is the best game of the group stages. Atmosphere felt like it was the World Cup final, and Saudi pulling off one of the greatest defensive performances in recent memory makes it sound like a fairytale. Sensational stuff.
Not definitely the biggest shock in World Cup history. Argentina weren't reigning champions or even nailed on favourites to win the tournament - just one of top 5 teams in world. Cameroon vs Argentina (1990) and Senegal vs France (2002) were probably bigger upsets
I will never forget that day
Big shock but had no actual meaning because Saudi finished last and Argentina 1st
Feeling's mutual Uruguayans. Must suck when you win but the other top European team in your group loses to an Asian team 2-1.
All the "dark horse" predicted teams are now out?
Croatia is in
FIFA should introduce penalty goals a la rugby for occasions when a blatant goal (eg. A handball on the line) prevents a goal, CMV
Portugal with the bus seat training kit
Many are saying Messi v Ronaldo final will be peak football. As a huge fan I would love to see that but I think I’m terms of quality Brazil v France final would be the peak of football.
Neymar vs Mbappe man
Why are godin and cavani on the bench?
I think Uruguay and South Korea to win today
Who will win today
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Aaaaaaaaaa I need help! Which game should I watch?!
Ghana/Uruguay would seem to be the better one initially, but I’d keep an eye on the South Korea score and switch if they score
Ghana Uruguay seems to have some anger...
Hopefully we see the first team to get 9 points this worldcup.
Guys, Ghana ML +305... do I slam it
Did you?
Is there pressure on Flick in Germany after not going through?
People criticise him for some things but apart from a dissenting voice like Hamann who wants him gone immediately the consensus seems to be that he should get the home Euro in 2024.
Doesn't Portugal play Brazil if they finish 2nd? Why field a weaker team and potentially face the favourites?
Well they lost but didn't end up finishing 2nd tho so it all worked out ig
i guess he is banking on this team to get at least a tie
They have +3 gd while Ghana has 0. Also maybe it’s better to rest some players and give others some game time to keep them match fit
All Polish referee trio for Argentina - Australia. Probably and hopefully won’t be the case since we accidentally helped them go through, but isn’t there a bit of a huge conflict of interest there? Imagine if we had knocked them out or thrashed them 7-0 or something, surely refs from the country we’ve just played shouldn’t be eligible for our next match?
Today Tó Silva will continue to demonstrate that he is our future main CB alongside Ruben, that he is our current 3rd CB (way clear of Danilo) and that he is the best young CB in the world
Is To short of Antonio in Portuguese? And why the hell your coach doesn't play Leao? Does he hate him or love him so much that he wants to keep by his side?
Saliba
people in Argentina trying to find something to banter Australia with and accidentally studying Australian history and finding out about the war on Emus, the World Cup is truly a beautiful thing
Hope Alonso finally sets up to play some football today. Starting De Arrascaeta is a good sign.
Gyan is unhappy that Ghana are playing defensively, ayyyy
Ghana with 5 yellow cards?
I haven't seen people really talk about it, but the "Rodri at CB" experiment really isn't working that well for Spain. Yesterday he slowed down for Japan's second goal, unaware that there was a player making a run behind him. He could have easily intercepted the ball otherwise.
I think enrique feels like both Rodri and Busquets need to be on the pitch, but I'm with you. Rodri's distribution out the back is really nice, but it's a pure luxury at this point, and doesn't add much given our quality in midfield. I would definitely rather him play a little further up the field and have some more solidity at the back.
There's no way Enrique benches Busquets though.
I think today is the day we'll actually find out if Portugal can compete for this WC or not, if South Korea want to remain in the competition they can't just stay in their box, they'll need to attack so we'll finally have some space up front, let's see what we do with it.
I think its the opposite, today is the day we learn the least useful information about Portugal. They are qualified already, their priority today isn't winning, its avoiding injuries and yellow cards and keeping their key players fresh. The only thing that might pressure Portugal into taking risks is if they see Ghana is winning their match while they are down to Korea, as I'm sure they want to avoid Brazil.
Portugal is playing their B team and using it to rest important players, I don't think it's a good game to judge them
I fail to understand how a less important game played with "secondary" players correlates to whether we are able to win the competition or not
My neighbour is blowing their vuvuzela to support Ghana for fucks sake man.
If Portugal finish first in their group this could potentially shape up to a Portugal - Argentina final. I'm not a fan of either but I think a world cup final Messi vs Ronaldo would be peak football.
Would be the biggest fixture ever by some distance, even with them both being well past their best.
I think Argentina Portugal could be decent but Ronaldo is just bad at this point. He will be the reason Portugal don’t make the final unfortunately
Portugals path would be Switzerland, Spain, France which seems unlikely
Holy shit De Arrascaeta is actually starting.
So glad that Uruguay are reverting to the 4-2-2-2 they used during previous matches under Alonso before the world cup, and that Godin is not starting. And that De Arraccaeta and Pellestri are starting in the false winger positions.
Well it looks like Alonso is finally fielding an attacking squad...so we are at least in for a good game.
I'd be so satisfied if we reach the knockouts at least.
He's actually using the formation they used before the world cup. Wow.
So Portugal heavily rotated their 11 but of course Ronaldo still plays.
TBF, out of all our players, he's likely the one with the least time played this season
Pepe still starting as well.
And it's a goal for Son Heung-Min in the 97th minute!!! He's scores against Portugal to make it three world cups in a row where he's found the net!!!
I honestly think this WC is anybodies. I think we'll see a surprise winner, like Greece at the Euros all those years ago. Especially if France get knocked out. This has been one of the best tournaments I've watched, just a shame about the controversy around Qatar.
England vs Argentina final.
I love witnessing meltdowns from the sideline more than almost anything. It's one of the main reasons I like football. If Suarez does something illegal or completely psychotic against Ghana then I'm all for it. Sorry not sorry
One of the main reasons you like football is the reactions from the sideline?
I really miss the early kick offs. I'd come to work and just watch football.
miss watching Klose era Germany, destroying teams until the semi final were a joy to watch.
It's not just lacking this striker but also the defensive solidity of past teams, Germany looked shaky at the back in each game whereas the 2010/2014 Germany was almost impossible to create against
Lol German fans have done a complete u turn from crediting Flick completely for their WC win under low to now wanting him out
SuperSport has Gyan on right now talking about Suarez's interview and not apologising lmao...
can't help but feel the Ghanaians will get Suarez in their heads too much
Musiala is obviously great but at least in these WC games he’s relied far too much on his dribbling. he doesn’t seem to know how to do much else and while he has a lot of successful dribbles he also loses possession a fuckton.
That, and better shooting too
Hoping for the best for Ghana today
I've got Uruguay in my works sweepstake so fuck you buddy
Klinsmann was right about Iran's ref crowding antics. I'm Iranian. They're kinda known for it. Constant bickering. Most of you aren't Iranian and have barely ever watched Iran play, so you thought it was a senseless attack. I grew up watching Iran play. What he said is true. Even my football-loving parents know it. Some of you guys got waaay too worked up about things you don't even have a clue about. It's not your job to defend poor little Iran and attack big bad Klinsmann. You'd be calling these types of comments based if he was talking about the US or something. You guys are surprised when Iran forget how to string 3 passes together and play hoofball while everyone I know expects it, how am I supposed to take your anti-Klinsmann comments seriously when you know fuck all about the Iranian team?
I think the issue mostly stemmed from Klinsman speaking in a language that’s not his own. He kept referring to the ‘culture’ of Iran, meaning the culture of the team , as you reference. But people took it to mean the culture of the Iranian people generally
Don’t fucking ask me why but today I had two separate dreams about Uruguay Ghana lmao.
Now wondering if there’s any way for Uruguay to go out whilst winning 5-1 (could happen if Korea batter Portugal, right)
Ghana wants revenge. Africa wants revenge. What better way to knock Uruguay out in Suarez’s last outing with La Celeste.
I feel like Ghana will be too overwhelmed with this sense of taking revenge instead of focusing on the actual game
My midfielder has 2 goals and 2 assists in 2 games with 2 motm performances securing his nations qualification. Their midfielder has less asists than maguire.
Saw Danny Murphy saying player for player Argentina aren't actually all that and only two players make it into England's 11 - Messi and Romero.
Depends if you take in account their overall form or NT form. If I was Scaloni and could build on top of the current team, the only players I’d 100% take for the starting XI would be Kane and James (Trent or any of the billion right backs you have if you consider James’ injury). There’s room for debate for a lot of others I guess but I wouldn’t drop anyone else from out starting XI for any of the english players.
Martinez
My combined XI would be like this
Pickford got 5 clean sheets at the euros, Martinez got zero
Well, if we win, we're through, if we lose we'll blame Alonso and move on.
Kimmich will take his anger out on Psg🙏
Come on, Ghana. Get your revenge on the pitch and send Uruguay home. Let’s add another African nation in the round of 16 🤞
At least when Germany looses they get to go back to Germany. Qataris have to stay in Qatar. Sad
True, true. At least we can take solace in the fact that we're better than Qatar
Listening to some podcasts, Ghana fans and players sound so bitter about 2010. Luis Suarez was correct back then in saying, yes, he made the foul but he was punished and Ghana were given a penalty they missed. It's not his fault.
I feel like Uruguay will win if the Ghana players are this bitter about something that happened 12 years ago...
Never really understood the controversy. I understand why Suarez did it and Uruguay got full punishment for it in form of a red+pen.
If Jamal Musiala and Erling Haaland had chosen to play for England now they'd both have some chances to win 2022 World Cup
Fair play to Haaland picking Norway, basically resigning himself to the fact that he'll never win an international tournament and he probably won't even compete at many.
That would've been awesome to have both of those lads! Probably the only time where it would be justifiable for England to play two strikers up top, with Kane in a slightly deeper role!
Did modric really get MOTM vs belgium?
He won because of his name, Gvardiol was a fucking monster
Thank God yes.. People who say Gvardiol are just crazy..
Should have been Gvardiol
Germany not winning against Japan cost them dearly. I thought they were better against Spain and played well against Costa Rica except for the defense.
It was a tough group, any team could have gone out
Bad luck with Spain losing v Japan and having such a tough group unlike Argentina which could recover v Mexico instead of Spain
Am surprised Louis van gaal and Netherlands aren’t getting any criticism, their performances have been disgustingly bad.
They are, though. Dutch media and fans are very critical, and you should see the bracket threads here. They're already saying Argentina has a free path to the semis. Even the Yanks are joining in, would you believe.
I mean they beat the 2nd place team in the group 2-0.
That's Van Gaal for you, loves playing shit football.
Their squad is a bit hit and miss, they essentially cruised to the KOs without playing very well, and have probably the easiest Ro16 draw
Get Cro Cop in there to announce the game
So obviously I support Australia against Argentina but if Argentina win, am I allowed to support Argentina for the rest of the tournament because I like Messi?
You may support us because going out to the champions is more glorified than going out to a team that lost next round tbf
No
I will allow it. I can provide a note in writing in case anyone asks for identification
I think today we'll see Tony das babes playing and pocketing Son
I can legitimately see Japan doing a Greece 2004.
They will reach QF and Brazil will have too much for them.
You think Japan are going to win the World Cup?
I really don't see them winning the Euros
Lol the German 🤭 protest really got to the Qatar supporters in
Disgusting how that brought all the homophobes out of the woodwork smh. Very revealing of how far we still have to go as a people.
So easily rattled, guess living in their shithole country means they have little else to do than get worked up over protests.
Because regular Qataris aren't the ones silencing them but people like you keep treating them shit for what?
https://twitter.com/nocontextfooty/status/1598611917840474112?s=46&t=f-nT66GL-7zHO2s-U315OA
The most mental thing about that Japan did it cross the line/did it not cross the line is the pass the lad plays. On the stretch and has to hit it into the ground to get the ball to pop into the air to avoid the other Japan player on the ground.
I think the entire thing made people forget that the winger was fantastic
Even though the Japan goal is clearly a good goal as per the rules, it just feels wrong that something like that can count.
Not really, if anything it's more annoying when a ball is clearly inbounds and they call for a throw-in because it "feels" out
What?? It feels wrong that a goal scored stood because it didn't actually go out?
Thankfully, we do not have to rely on feelings to decide the winner of a football match.
Yesterday's crazyness turned me into a strong proponent of the 4 group system and I hope FIFA keeps it in 2026 as it looks like they might be doing.
With the gap in European and South American teams vs the rest of the world becoming smaller and smaller, the 4 group set up would be much more exciting. A very big part of me hopes Senegal goes all the way this world cup.
I looked back at World Cup 2018 groups, and I could have guessed the teams that make it out 15/16 times. Only Germany was a surprise.
the 2018 was expected, but only in hindsight I feel.
Ladies and Gentlemen, it's Ghana vs Uruguay.
Goals
Tournament successful: outperformed Belgium and Germany.
Swamp Germans are best Germans, confirmed
My joy is immeasurable and my day is made
twitter is full of islamofascists and right wingers celebrating that germany hasn’t qualified. Hope one day they move to a place together so they stop bothering everybody else
They’re celebrating their downfall because of their pro - LBTQ agenda. I’m celebrating their downfall due to English bitterness about their previous success. We are not the same
I really wish Croatia outclassed us yesterday, seeing how close we were and how much better we were with Lukaku on the pitch hurts. Ofc Martinez is to blame because he's never found a good plan B to play without Romelu but we could have done a lot of things if he was in his 2021 form for the tournament. His injury killed our world cup.
I've had vamos Nippon stuck in my head since the Spain game, annoyingly catchy
Morocco could cause the following countries to be knocked out: Belgium - Spain - Portugal - England/France - Netherlands. African revenge run against the colonizers.
In comparison to these countries Marocco is actively occupying another country rn.
As someone from a colony that swapped hands between three of those countries...Morocco
Football is about connecting.
Croatia ran 122km yesterday, the juice is back
Cancelo has been shit this world cup
Esgaio is banned by FIFA for being too good
He's been shit for a while
Uruguay still remain the only side to not score a single goal in the entire tournament.
Luis Suarez Hand of God 2: Electric Boogaloo incoming.
Coates will score in the 90+3 with a header
Genuinely nothing better for us and our mentality that we're entering the knockout stages with a 0-0 draw, if we blew Belgium away we would already be crowning ourselves the champion.
Apparently Lukaku missed his flight home
Serious question: why do players never stay to watch the rest of the games? Back to training?
Source or are you joking?
We're tied for the second best defense and tied for the second worst attack of the tournament lol
Can any English fans tell me why tavernier doesn’t get a call up? Or is he not eligible?
Which Tavernier?
he’s not good enough