Dutch TV was broadcasting this song on repeat this morning :D

pulisic almost started early :eek:

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well now reality sets in... depay makes us pay. or memphis, whatever...

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lol 2-0 at halftime. ouchie.

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eh, at least we scored. ok? no more false hopes. was glad to make it out of an easy group.

Oh you don't want to know how deep in it I'm getting. ;)

Anyway, two pretty expected results for today. Netherlands 3-1 over the United States was a fair result, the Dutch were unremarkable but pretty convincingly better.
Australia held their own against Argentina, one goal was Messi doing Messi shit and the other was appalling goalkeeping on our part. They won deservedly, but we pushed them...please can we keep this motivation up.

Yikes... How deep in it are we talking about? Jeffrey Toobin deep?

luis enrique a complete wastrel ruined it for spain with his bad tiki taka schemes with no alternative.

morocco meanwhile made the best of the situation, had a well deserved win for character and effort, even when featuring lesser individual talents.

great team effort, great morale, great spirit. japan showed the way and morocco learned well.

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and now portugal's better individual quality showing, no cronaldo necessary. the swiss do try, but...

Good thing I haven't placed any bets on this bonkers Cup.

As for Cristiano Ronaldo Reagan, he rots the mind.

i didn't understand the "rots the mind" part, but anyway, 6-1 quite a massacre in the end. what a nice team. thw totl opposite of spain.

Spain's statistics vs Morocco:

- 77% ball posession
- 1,019 passes (!)
- 1 shot on target

The Dark Side of Tiki-Taka.

i saw a bit of the press conference with luis enrique where the deluded fuck made the claim that he had "dominated" against morocco and he was happy with his team and they had carried out his theory etc



what an utter moron

Place your bets and lose! :D

brazil beats croatia seems clear to me. not only in personnel, but croatia will arrive burnt out from the previous long match.

i favor argentina's chances over the netherlands, but i don't know really. it might go to overtime and penalties and then who knows.

france should beat england in the end. probably within regulation time. not easily, but good goalscorers on both sides.

portugal should beat morocco, it has superior talent up and down and the manager is not a dumb twat. morocco has been full of surprises though, but i think this is when they run out of luck.

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if i were into bets i would bet a for a brazil france final which ought to be glorious football. a france portugal semifinal could be a real beauty as well. i like portugal. not cristiano, but portugal.

on the other bracket for me it depends on richarlison because that other guy who missed like 20 shots, oooooffff....,

whoever makes it to the final, i see france as having a deeper bench. pity benzema did not make it. but champs twice in a row why not.

I hope the "gift link" below works for everyone here; otherwise I'll have to copy/format/paste the whole thing:

Why doesn’t Argentina have more Black players in the World Cup?

Argentina is far more diverse than many people realize — but the myth that it is a White nation has persisted

ETA: More Black players? How about any?

haha, interesting subject but that has nothing to do with the football, does it?

i mean sarmiento & co. were a bunch of shitbirds but how do you get a football team out or that 170 or so years later.... no idea

interesting topic but bad headline i guess, they try to cram it into the world cup somehow hahahha.

now let's talk about argentina's foreign debt and the world cup. they've defaulted 4 times since 1980 :D

brazil keeps pounding at the door but nothing

croatia well planted on the defense... and holding on to the ball with boring passes when they have it

this game could go either way? 0-0 and penalties?

brazil needs to score or it will pay

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too many goddamn yellow cards

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fffffffffffffffrustration...

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GOL!!! AT LAST!!!!

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fffffffff, again

How Croatia got away with that I don't know, lousy defending by Brazil for the equaliser.

it went according to their plan. this was their endgame all along. except for that pesky neymar that almost derailed it.

i lost one and won one :confused:

Crazy fucking game, absolutely glorious. I'm all on for an Argentina v England final, that would rule.

the Dutch are now ranked three times in the top 5 of World Cup matches with most cards:


20 - Nederland - Portugal (2006)
18 - Germany- Kameroen (2002)
17 - Nederland - Argentina (2022)
15 - Nederland - Spain (2010)
12 - Senegal - Uruguay (2002)

There's even confusion about the amount of cards, in another article it is mentioned that the amount was 19 including bench players and coaches:
Nederland: Timber, Weghorst, Depay, Berghuis, Van Dijk, Bergwijn, Dumfries, Lang, Dumfries (second yellow and thus red)
Argentina: Acuña, Samuel (assistent-coach) Romero, Li. Martínez, Paredes, Scaloni (trainer), Messi, Otamendi, Montiel, Pezzella.



Anyway, the Argentines deservedly won, even though Messi should have gotten a yellow card as well for that hands ball

When the Afro population adds up to 0.37% I wonder why there's none in the team. The numbers couldn't possibly add up, could they.

There is a significantly larger demographic of Asians in Argentina but why bother mentioning them when there's a specific enervated narrative to push.
She could easily work for the BBC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjhxYXtDkl0