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2018 FIFA World Cup Thread

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  • If there is a bass brawl in final and 5 players get sent off from each side, won't the third placed side win it due to disqualification? :)
  • Weird, we’ve scored 12 goals
  • Shots on target from open play, I think they mean. For some reason, shots from set pieces don't count anymore.
  • If there is a bass brawl in final and 5 players get sent off from each side, won't the third placed side win it due to disqualification? :)

    That would be a bit fishy.
  • cafctom said:

    It would have been absolutely epic to beat Russia in the Semi Final on their own turf. I don’t need to go into the details obviously, but the back story and context of the whole thing would have been unreal.

    Not if you were an English fan out there it wouldn’t.
  • I feel sorry for Harry Kane, he scored in nearly every game for England in recent times and when he missed one or rather the keeper did an amazing save to knock the ball onto the post he's slated by some folk.

    Are people serious when they say square it to Sterling and he has a tap in !
    Have you watched his last 25 games for England when he's yards from goal.
    The lad is good at running at defenders BUT his finishing is the worse I have seen in the last 40 years in a England shirt.

    I'm so desperate for Sterling to prove me wrong but never replicates his City goal scoring for England. The paradox is the lad is good at getting into goal scoring positions !
  • I didn't think it was that easy to square - it was just bad luck.
  • I wouldn't have a dig at Kane he was marvelous in the groups and v columbia. But he had no business being on the pitch v Sweden or particularly v Croatia as he was obviously carrying some kind of injury, which really hampered us and our ability to take some pressure off by holding it upfield in the second half, which he had done so well previously.
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    I'm not having a go at anyone who does watch it, but is anyone watching today? I'm thinking I'll wait until I see the lineups.
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  • edited July 2018
    Huskaris said:

    I'm not having a go at anyone who does watch it, but is anyone watching today? I'm thinking I'll wait until I see the lineups.

    Probably have it on in the background whilst I'm doing something else. One of those occasional games where naturally you want to win, but ultimately aren't really fussed.
  • Really trying to muster the will to care... I'll watch of course because it's footy on free tv... But yeah... not really fussed.
  • Surprised to see Trippier start. He looked crooked on Wednesday
  • That team looks poor imo
  • Oh well 4th place it is then, still way beyond what anyone expected 4 weeks ago.

    A midfield of Dier, Delph and Loftus-Cheek isn't going to do much.

    Amazed Trippier has made it, he was practically carried off 3 days ago.
  • Huskaris said:

    I'm not having a go at anyone who does watch it, but is anyone watching today? I'm thinking I'll wait until I see the lineups.

    If you are winners and not quitters you try to get third as opposed to fourth. I am going to watch it and expect us to try to win it. Best performance since 66 - bank that and try to exceed that next time!
  • Huskaris said:

    I'm not having a go at anyone who does watch it, but is anyone watching today? I'm thinking I'll wait until I see the lineups.

    If you are winners and not quitters you try to get third as opposed to fourth. I am going to watch it and expect us to try to win it. Best performance since 66 - bank that and try to exceed that next time!
    Agreed. Let's show the world we are the best losers out there!
  • Belgium 1-0 or 2-0 I think. Have backed Belgium the second that team was confirmed, surprised they haven't came in further. Midfield they will run circles around us and I sense it means a little more to them than us taking everything into consideration. Just a presumption.
  • Huskaris said:

    I'm not having a go at anyone who does watch it, but is anyone watching today? I'm thinking I'll wait until I see the lineups.

    If you are winners and not quitters you try to get third as opposed to fourth. I am going to watch it and expect us to try to win it. Best performance since 66 - bank that and try to exceed that next time!
    It's on itv again remember.... Don't get your hopes up!
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  • I didn't think it was that easy to square - it was just bad luck.

    Think the Croatian 'keeper would have gotten a touch had he tried which would have put tbe ball behind Sterling
  • Can’t be many teams to have lost 3 games at the same World Cup .
  • Can’t be many teams to have lost 3 games at the same World Cup .

    Apart from teams who have lost all three Group Games - You have to go back to Bulgaria in 1994 who came fourth yet lost a Group game

    Belgium in 1986 | France in 1982 | Uruguay 1970 | Yugoslavia 1962 also lost three games on route to finishing fourth
  • Can’t be many teams to have lost 3 games at the same World Cup .

    Apart from teams who have lost all three Group Games - You have to go back to Bulgaria in 1994 who came fourth yet lost a Group game

    Belgium in 1986 | France in 1982 | Uruguay 1970 | Yugoslavia 1962 also lost three games on route to finishing fourth
    I get the point but I completely enjoyed the ride.

    Draw against Tunisia and lose to Belgium in the group and we potentially go home. We didn't, the rest is history.

    Southgate and kids done well. Unified the nation for 3 weeks - thoroughly enjoyed.

    Euros 2016 completely the opposite - imo that's what watching England in finals is so so painful .

    My expectation at outset is never that we will win the whole competition . Getting to a semi finals is an amazing bonus and especially this year.

    Throw stats up however you like for me it was a great World Cup !
  • DRAddick said:

    FA given a £53k fine for players wearing unapproved socks, i.e. not by sponsers.

    I saw an England player with holes in his socks in the match on Weds, this might be the reason.

    Gods knows what would happen with 2 stripe Crufff.
  • Good start to the game.
  • I would always usually be rooting for the team playing against whoever knocked us out.

    Not this year - no controversy or foul play in the semi. We lost fair and square. Would love to see Croatia become World Champions. It’s the last chance they will get with this golden generation
  • Croatia are one of those sides who certainly baffle

    As they said on the BBC earlier... there is no Grassroots in their country, no version of St George's Park or the French version (forgotten the name), yet they're always up there and as this their second Golden Generation in 20 years you'd expect there to be another soon
  • France aren't going to bottle another final are they...?
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