Nordan Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 I wasn't very hyped about this one tbh, slightly hyped about the WC finally on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
git2thachoppa Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Daily Mail, Sun etc. already telling us how Robbie SHOCKED us by throwing up the MIDDLE FINGER on TV (when actually we think it was hilarious) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bestbrother Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 DOS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunmaN1905 Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 2-0 Cheryshev Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD nawrat Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 6 minutes ago, Koetzer said: He's injured but hasn't played for national team since 2016 so anyway was unlikely to be called up. Cheers. Just when I considered that Zhirkov was playing, I remembered Schennikov was meant to be the future LB of Russia but I guess it hasn't worked out. Cheryshev scores but he's been poor. Has no end product. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordan Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 There goes my guess, the sub did it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakarooney Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 2-0. Cheryshev does well there. Was a bit of a crappy pass to him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnhughthom Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Did well, pass to him underhit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orzelek Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 2-0 Cheryshev I wonder how that defence will do against Suarez and Cavani? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 goal for all of Russia! nice finish from Cheryshev Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haguey Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Uruguay are gonna stick 15 goals past these Saudis Nice goal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butts Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 That is absolutely class from Cheryshev. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
decapitated Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Saudi Arabia are awful at defending. Egypt and Uruguay will beat them easily. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harryseaess Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 That's class. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD nawrat Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Cheryshev scared to look up I think. He just blasts that ball and hopes the best Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren1983 Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Nice goal that. Always good when the hosts do ok. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
git2thachoppa Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Goal of the tournament already. Russia/Saudi delivering a good game with goals as expected. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baptista_8 Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Any way I can force a window (Chrome browser) to stay on top of other windows, without installing anything? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveUK Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 They look half decent going forward, can't defend and lack a defensive midfielder according to what the pundit just said... think Arsene might of just found his new team! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pukey Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Lovely goal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFuller Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Osama aside, Saudi Arabia have been pretty poor. No way they're taking any points from this group. I doubt they'll even score. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD nawrat Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 12 minutes ago, GunmaN1905 said: Yeah, that 2026 WC will have a lot of unwatchable games. This is pretty bad. It's the opening game so everyone's still hyped, but in a week noone will be interested in games of this caliber. In a week we'll rarely be seeing games like this. All the big teams will be playing and we'll have one maybe two stinkers per day at worst, then the KOs come anyway. E: I mean we have Spain Vs Portugal tomorrow. Do we all expect that to be a repeat of this game? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartwork Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Why do they think it was a close decision? The challenge was inch perfect, he got the ball. Fantastic tackle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD nawrat Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 You can tell Clattenburg works in the sun nowadays Had no idea he was a Geordie! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 should be Andy Townsend doing this, the real owner of the tactics truck on ITV Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bliss Seeker Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Ok, I hate VAR. It's all they talk about now. Just overshadows the action and discussion. Down with VAR Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunmaN1905 Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 7 minutes ago, JDownie said: In a week we'll rarely be seeing games like this. All the big teams will be playing and we'll have one maybe two stinkers per day at worst, then the KOs come anyway. E: I mean we have Spain Vs Portugal tomorrow. Do we all expect that to be a repeat of this game? Yeah, but there's at least 5-6 teams that obviously lack quality for this level, while Italy, Netherlands, Chile and even the likes of Ecuador and some other European nation are at home. It's not even the technical aspect, but some of these teams are playing recreational football. Saudis look stuck in the second gear. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
git2thachoppa Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Commentary annoyed me earlier complaining about the linesman not flagging offside, when literally just an hour or so ago Clattenburg said they're not gonna raise it while the ball's still in play. I know they do research but do they not ****ing do it properly or what? Don't be like Jonathan Pearce. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD nawrat Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 1 minute ago, GunmaN1905 said: Yeah, but there's at least 5-6 teams that obviously lack quality for this level, while Italy, Netherlands, Chile and even the likes of Ecuador and some other European nation are at home. It's not even the technical aspect, but some of these teams are playing recreational football. Saudis look stuck in the second gear. So you want a World Cup where we exclude Asian and African teams because there's better European teams not going? E: if Italy and Holland can't get there ahead of the likes of Iceland, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark then they don't deserve to go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartwork Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 If you just want to watch European teams, Euro 2020 is in 2 years. Wait for that instead. Some of the Saudi players have shown some decent flashes of ability but yeah they're nowhere near the quality of Russia and keep leaving themselves completely wide open for counter attacks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD nawrat Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Just now, Heartwork said: If you just want to watch European teams, Euro 2020 is in 2 years. Wait for that instead. Some of the Saudi players have shown some decent flashes of ability but yeah they're nowhere near the quality of Russia and keep leaving themselves completely wide open for counter attacks. And they deserve to go - they went through a qualifying campaign to prove that. Yes they're not gonna win it, but that doesn't mean we don't let them go just because there's other nations with better players who couldn't perform in their qualifiers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
git2thachoppa Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 I can't wait to hear the ignorant xenophobes of the 'I don't know about them so they're **** and gonna lose 6-0' variety come out during a 48-team tournament... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Readingfanman Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Excited already to watch Uruguay batter Saudi Arabia next week Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartwork Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Just now, JDownie said: And they deserve to go - they went through a qualifying campaign to prove that. Yes they're not gonna win it, but that doesn't mean we don't let them go just because there's other nations with better players who couldn't perform in their qualifiers. Yeah this is a great chance for them to show what they can do. Some of them have a lot of raw potential and if they went to a bigger club after this, they could refine their play a bit and become properly good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butts Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 6 minutes ago, git2thachoppa said: Commentary annoyed me earlier complaining about the linesman not flagging offside, when literally just an hour or so ago Clattenburg said they're not gonna raise it while the ball's still in play. I know they do research but do they not ****ing do it properly or what? Don't be like Jonathan Pearce. Hey? They said not raise it if it's marginal. Not even one part of his body was onside, got to be giving that ffs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunmaN1905 Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 10 minutes ago, JDownie said: So you want a World Cup where we exclude Asian and African teams because there's better European teams not going? No, just reduce the number. Senegal and Nigeria obviously have the quality. One of Morroco and Egypt would be enough as a direct placement. Korea, Japan, Iran, Saudi are all mediocre at best. 2 slots are enough for direct placement. Costa Rica and Mexico have the quality, Panama doesn't. That's 5 teams. Make inter-continental playoff tournament. Maybe 5-8 slots open for taking, 3-4 teams from each continent. Because there are obviously quality shifts and the most quality teams should go through. 8 minutes ago, Heartwork said: If you just want to watch European teams, Euro 2020 is in 2 years. Wait for that instead. Some of the Saudi players have shown some decent flashes of ability but yeah they're nowhere near the quality of Russia and keep leaving themselves completely wide open for counter attacks. I want to watch quality teams. If for example instead of some of the weakest teams we had peak Ivory Coast and Cameroon, I'd be all for it. I'd prefer Chile and Ecuador, even Paraguay to these amateurs. 7 minutes ago, JDownie said: And they deserve to go - they went through a qualifying campaign to prove that. Yes they're not gonna win it, but that doesn't mean we don't let them go just because there's other nations with better players who couldn't perform in their qualifiers. Yeah, because the system is fairly distributed. 4 Asian teams, 4 African and 5 South American. And no Asian or African, even Central American team would qualify through South American qualifiers. Even a lot of European teams that are here would have trouble. South Americans are at a loss because their continent has only 10 countries. And during every WC cycle there's like 8 of them who'd fight for knockout places in WC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartwork Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 OK then Gunman just hates Asians Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgreenio Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 what are the group sorting rules? head-to-head then goals scored? Russia need to really get at these Saudi's the hell is that from gunman Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nordan Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Infantino regretting sitting in the middle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orzelek Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 If the smaller countries don't have a chance to compete at this level, they'll never improve. Not only as for the team, but it creates a much higher interest in football in general if a small team suddenly reches the World Cup or th EURO. If you want to see the same bunch of teams/players competing for the win, we've already have the CL every single year... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFuller Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 1 minute ago, elgreenio said: what are the group sorting rules? head-to-head then goals scored? Russia need to really get at these Saudi's Points, goal difference, goals scored, then head-to-head. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartwork Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 1 minute ago, elgreenio said: what are the group sorting rules? head-to-head then goals scored? Russia need to really get at these Saudi's The rankings of teams in each group are determined as follows (regulations Article 32.5):[34] points obtained in all group matches; goal difference in all group matches; number of goals scored in all group matches; If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings are determined as follows: points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned; goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned; number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned; fair play points first yellow card: minus 1 point; indirect red card (second yellow card): minus 3 points; direct red card: minus 4 points; yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points; drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baptista_8 Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 15 minutes ago, git2thachoppa said: Commentary annoyed me earlier complaining about the linesman not flagging offside, when literally just an hour or so ago Clattenburg said they're not gonna raise it while the ball's still in play. I know they do research but do they not ****ing do it properly or what? Don't be like Jonathan Pearce. What? Not gonna flag for offside if the ball's still in play? So could play for 2 minutes after an offside, end up scoring then get called back for offside? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartwork Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 It's quite funny hearing them mention Faraj a lot Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 if you get through the qualifying, you deserve to be in the World Cup I'd love to see Italy, Holland, USA etc at the tournament but they didn't qualify so it's what it is Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgreenio Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 1 minute ago, CFuller said: Points, goal difference, goals scored, then head-to-head. cheers. Russia would do well to up the ante here then Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFuller Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 1 minute ago, Heartwork said: It's quite funny hearing them mention Faraj a lot He's done more today than he ever did as Portsmouth owner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMLF Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 If it was up to me the World Cup would have only 16 teams, but chances are Saudi Arabia could still qualify. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunmaN1905 Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 5 minutes ago, Orzelek said: If the smaller countries don't have a chance to compete at this level, they'll never improve. Not only as for the team, but it creates a much higher interest in football in general if a small team suddenly reches the World Cup or th EURO. If you want to see the same bunch of teams/players competing for the win, we've already have the CL every single year... I'm Croatian. we don't even have 5mil population yet we missed only 2 big tournaments since the independence. Uruguay also doesn't have even 4mil and they're at nearly every world cup. Iceland qualified for EURO and now WC with less than 500k. They knocked out England. You don't improve by getting wrecked in 3 WC games. They got wrecked in 2002, 8-0(!), and will probably get battered again. As I said, I don't care about population or big name countries, it's just about quality of football. I mentioned big name countries because they come to mind first. It's sad that Palermo-Frosinone, Serie A playoff game from last night is more quality than World Cup opener. And then they want to expand it to 48? Why? Because it generates more money. Not because quality of football will improve. 2 minutes ago, PMLF said: If it was up to me the World Cup would have only 16 teams, but chances are Saudi Arabia could still qualify. Yeah, EURO should definitely be 16. Maybe 16 is steep for the WC, but I want to see quality football, not amateurs parading. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northeu Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 You could pretend that the first two weeks don't exsist ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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