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Jimmy_D

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VAR hasn't been anywhere near perfect, but one thing I've liked is that referees have been more willing to give penalties against the big teams, knowing they've got VAR to bail them out of mistakes.

 

Before they'd have been scared to give them and more often than not unjustly given the benefit of the doubt.

Batman

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France.

 

Good stuff

Round 2 could have France v Argentina with Brazil v Germany... and Uruguay v Portugal

Some big hitters going out

 

The ducks are lining up in a..........

shurlock

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mascherano looks well past his best.

Argentina deserved the win as Nigeria didn’t really offer enough imo.

 

Missed the first half but thought Nigeria were the better side in the second half.

Batman

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France vs Argentina, what a horrid game that will be. Negative ****e teams.

 

 

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It will be a ****ing mess

Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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France vs Argentina, what a horrid game that will be. Negative ****e teams.

 

We are guaranteed to see either Maradonna or Pogba crying, what's not to like.

jawillwill

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Love to see bobby charlton giving it some of this...

 

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Apparently collapsed and rushed to hospital straight after the game. Not surprised, he looked as high as a kite all game.

Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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Apparently collapsed and rushed to hospital straight after the game. Not surprised, he looked as high as a kite all game.

 

Hope he pulls through. Diego's coke dealer is 8% of Argentina's GDP.

Lord Duckhunter

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As an example the ref clearly had a good view of the soares handball. Ordinarily he would have waved away the penalty and carried on but the presence of var makes it too tempting to just use the technology and then he ended up reversing his decision which was correct in the first place. If the ref doesn't see something then that's different.

 

Refereeing error then

 

 

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Pamplemousse

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Good stuff

Round 2 could have France v Argentina with Brazil v Germany... and Uruguay v Portugal

Some big hitters going out

 

The ducks are lining up in a..........

 

All those six teams on the same side of the draw as well! England will be if we finish first, if we end up second, the only tricky teams really will be Spain, Croatia and Mexico

LGTL

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I know people harp on about momentum, but I think it’s important to finish second in the group. Much better chance of a semi final appearance on that side of the draw.

SKD

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I know people harp on about momentum, but I think it’s important to finish second in the group. Much better chance of a semi final appearance on that side of the draw.

 

Agree. Thursday could be a very boring game.

benjii

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I know people harp on about momentum, but I think it’s important to finish second in the group. Much better chance of a semi final appearance on that side of the draw.

 

That's fine in theory but what exactly do we do to ensure that? Throw the game? We will rotate that squad and so will Belgium and those players who come in will want to show the manager they should be in the starting eleven.

LGTL

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That's fine in theory but what exactly do we do to ensure that? Throw the game? We will rotate that squad and so will Belgium and those players who come in will want to show the manager they should be in the starting eleven.

 

Get a few early yellow cards and then play for the draw. It's easier to try and not particualrly attack, you only had to watch the France Denmark horror show yesterday!

Lord Duckhunter

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The time to start ****ing about and playing for second was during the Panama game when we were 3-0 up. Should have just taken that. I’ve no doubt Jose would have settled for a 3-0 then played out a boring 0-0 Thursday, job done.

 

 

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scotty

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Commentator: "Germany are on their way out of the world cup....."

 

Final nail, they'll definitely win now.

 

And he's now speculating on the headlines, just to seal it.

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