wow, the group gets interesting. nobody a lock yet.

peru reportedly has to win against france later, and i would expect them to score (so varane might not net me a lot of points), but peru could conceivably stay alive by tying this one and winning the last one against australia, depending on other results + goal differentials. no?

gotta wait for the result to hash out all possible scenarios but we could end up with suprises.

france too much talent not to make it, but for me they didn’t really click on their first game either, even though they won. when they do click they will be unstoppable.

posted earlier in the movie thread:

peru-france great first half. back and forth the first half hour then awesome mbappé goal. now france has peru against the ropes and unable to push forward.

carrillo seems injured and might get subbed out. obvious replacement would be farfan.

adding: france gelling nicely as a team

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dont know this santamaria coming in?

OH HERE COMES FARFAN

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farfan trying to break more ribs lol

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this game back & forth—bananas

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and démbélé comes in!

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this arab ref an idjit. has dished out a bunch of yellow cards that just no. pogba?? this can cost france later.

o man! peru the first south american team eliminated. a pity, because they played a great game today, but they threw away their chance against denmark with some stupid tactical decisions and now they must pay.

consolation prize is that varane gave me a clean sheet

anyway, now it’s time for argentina to wake the fuck up against croatia.

come ooooooooooooooon!!!

ANOTHER relentless back and forth now these two whatta day

good for the game to have early fuckups i guess

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caballero, fucksakes

omg enzo perez wtf

mandzu!

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getting a little brutal. and where is dybala?

Ew, massive mistake by Argentina

caballero, AGAIN

AGAIN motherfucker

everyone picks on messi but caballero keeps giving it for free

ealier today, and before with iceland

witlf

Aguero off?!?!?!?!?

Amazingly stupid indeed

But the shot's quite beautiful

maradona biting his nails looks like an old lady

Watching Mascherano you can see his legs have gone. Sad to see really.

finally dybala in lets see

wow, modric. hats off.

Argentina are a shambles

They had it coming... no support for their useless backline and another fine goal for a fine team

meltdown

wow. wowowow. wow.

Argentina have been HORRENDOUS in this game. The reach of Sampaoli's management is "give it to Messi" and that's it. Fair play to Croatia they've kicked it up in this 2nd half.

im not a coach and i dont have a winning formula to offer but i cant fathom how with so much individual talent argentina cannot find a winning formula

of course this is not just an argentina fuckup—croatia were well planted on the pitch and glorious in the attack.

(tired also of the pointless messi/ronaldo comparisons)

This is just wonderful. I saw the first 30 mins and the last 25 or so but in those last 25 we had
Beauty from Luka the tax dodging legend
Otamendi booting the ball at Rakitic's head at point blank range, only for him to get up and so nearly drill another beauty in the top corner. I hope Otamendi has the book thrown at him for that shit, you can properly hurt someone by doing that.
Rakitic getting a nice bit of revenge with the third.
And FINALLY they're so confident they can bring on VEDRAN CORLUKA who gets booked after about 2 minutes.

Honestly one of my favourite 25 minutes of football for some time.