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World Cup 2018: The best party money could buy (until 2022)!

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Group H could provide the first surprise exit from the world cup. Barring two draws, either Poland or Colombia won't be able to advance.
 
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Although if there is a winner in Japan-Senegal, a draw between Poland and Colombia would keep both alive but only one of the two could advance on final day. That's what I meant.
 
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Panama cuts through an asleep English D and SCORES!!!

The comeback begins!!!
(just kidding)
 
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Entire Senegal team was just offside
 
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Japan and Australia much more impressive than Panama and Costa Rica
 
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Casual fan here. These Volkswagen commercials trolling America for not making the tournament are genius :D
 
Re: World Cup 2018: The best party money could buy (until 2022)!

Casual fan here. These Volkswagen commercials trolling America for not making the tournament are genius :D

They really are. But it also casually trolls all of the other major teams.
 
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If England and Belgium tie, it will come down to a Fair Play tiebreaker, which England currently wins with just two yellow cards to Belgium's three.
 
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Being a ref and doing ref things doesn't work at this level?
 
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Being a ref and doing ref things doesn't work at this level?

That comment made no sense. Yeah, the guy who did the second biggest game of the first match dates, then doing the game with the most ramifications of the second match dates doesn't know how to ref on the big stage.
 
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That was a nice goal by Columbia.

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And now it's 2 nil. Poland is in deep doo doo.
 
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Japan and Australia much more impressive than Panama and Costa Rica

Shouldn’t you be comparing them to Saudi Arabia and South Korea? I mean you really shouldn’t be ignoring Mexico...
 
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Shouldn’t you be comparing them to Saudi Arabia and South Korea? I mean you really shouldn’t be ignoring Mexico...

Mexico is a notch above all those teams. I'm just comparing these four because I view them on a similar playing field. The fact we couldn't even qualify, what a terrible cycle for CONCACAF. I know the FIFA world rankings don't mean much but CR is ranked ahead of Australia and Panama ahead of Japan (and South Korea). From what I have seen, I just didn't expect the level of play Australia and Japan have provided. They have had bright spells of attacking play.
 
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The Belgium/England game is fascinating to me because finishing 2nd is most likely a better draw when you look at the bracket. Finish first and you set yourself up for a date with Brazil or Germany in the quarters.
 
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Is there always so much diving and flopping in World Cup soccer? Of the few games I watched this weekend, I expected at least half a dozen players to die right there on the grass.
 
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Is there always so much diving and flopping in World Cup soccer? Of the few games I watched this weekend, I expected at least half a dozen players to die right there on the grass.
Sadly, yes. You learn to tune it out to a certain extent.

Poland was dreadful
Not saying that Poland played well by any stretch, but a lot of it had to do with how **** good Colombia was today. Especially through the middle of the park.

Mexico is a notch above all those teams. I'm just comparing these four because I view them on a similar playing field. The fact we couldn't even qualify, what a terrible cycle for CONCACAF. I know the FIFA world rankings don't mean much but CR is ranked ahead of Australia and Panama ahead of Japan (and South Korea). From what I have seen, I just didn't expect the level of play Australia and Japan have provided. They have had bright spells of attacking play.

The first 35 minutes today, Panama actually was playing England pretty evenly. It's just after 35 minutes England had 3 attempts on goal and scored 3 goals. But in that same period Panama had some pretty bright stretches of possession and some quality looks at goal.
So ok, Panama have not looked good...but not as bad as the score today would indicate.
 
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Mexico is a notch above all those teams. I'm just comparing these four because I view them on a similar playing field. The fact we couldn't even qualify, what a terrible cycle for CONCACAF. I know the FIFA world rankings don't mean much but CR is ranked ahead of Australia and Panama ahead of Japan (and South Korea). From what I have seen, I just didn't expect the level of play Australia and Japan have provided. They have had bright spells of attacking play.
If you knew anything about world soccer you wouldn’t be surprised by Australia and Japan. They’re two of the best teams in Asia and also have two of the best leagues in Asia. Also they’re two teams with veteran players and plenty of World Cup experience.
 
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If you knew anything about world soccer you wouldn’t be surprised by Australia and Japan. They’re two of the best teams in Asia and also have two of the best leagues in Asia. Also they’re two teams with veteran players and plenty of World Cup experience.
Yeah, for outsiders (not UEFA/CONMEBOL) it’s basically Mexico, Japan, Auastralia and the US that crash the round of 16.l with any consistency.
 
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