FIFA World Cup 2026 Results & Discussion Thread [R]

Dominance

 

Ahahahaa

 

8 finals (WC + Copa) = 1 non-PK G/As

 

Toni Kroos was happy with the World Cup final result 😅🤣 pic.twitter.com/dvE2V1xCIL

— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) July 19, 2026

Footballs the winner#fifaworldcup #fifaworldcup

— Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) July 19, 2026

 

ESPN FC commentary was hilarious, they swallowed Argentina antics all tournament and then after they lose the commentators feel free to call it out. I think this just affirms winning regardless how ugly and with few exceptions is celebrated but losexand the comments come out.

 

This reminded me of the 1990 WC Final. I was 21 years old at that time. Argentina was despised by the rest of the world. But they somehow survived until the Final. Everyone was happy (may be not the English).

This WC Finals, Argentina was worst. Thanks to VAR, Instagram, youtube. We knew how despicable they were. The brawl with Bellingham and then, Spain did not happen in 1990. At least, I did not recall.
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I hate Barcelona. I found myself rooting for their players. Actually, i don't know any of Barcelona's players. I dont watch them. Except Yamal and Olmo, I don't know if any of them. I literally just found out that Pau Cubarsi and Gavi play for them. I did wonder if Cubarsi plays for them during the game. I mistook Gavi with Gabi. I hated Gavi because he plays for Atletico Madrid, i said to myself. I really did not know.

 

Modric not listed because, of course, he'll still be playing in 2030 and bossing...somehow...

 

Modric is an awesome dude..like R9, Zidane, Iniesta and Kante..

 

BBC was awesome, deservedly shredded them to pieces

 

The British ESPN FC commentary was about as harsh as I’ve ever seen from a show of that type.

 

Brilliant, thanks for sharing.

One of the biggest reasons Argentina felt emboldened to carry on with their thuggery even after the final whistle tonight was Messi setting the tone early vs Algeria. He committed what was a blantant straight-red challenge (excessive force) in the opening half-hour of their WC campaign and walked away untouched. The rest of the squad got the message and were like oh, that's pretty cool..

Messi is every bit as dirty as the rest of that pack. The only difference is Paredes, Enzo, Romero get called thugs, while the elf gets wrapped in bubble pack by FIFA and the media because he's their cash cow and poster boy. Accountability simply doesn't apply to him, neither does critisism.

I'm fvcking glad he's done.

 

I didn't sense that as being the theme you were going for, I just saw three legends who have played their last World Cup and wanted to riff off that.

 

Just "polarizing" players that benefit from media coverage, manufactured comparisons, and should have retired at least 4 years ago..I just want to watch football in peace without commentators, pundits, journalist going on and on about those three..enough already..

Also, Neymar..a legend? I disagree with that but to each their own

 

Vickery is one of my favorite journalists..



Some stuff from Sid Lowe also

 

the thing about the dark arts is if you constantly operate on the boundary of what you can get away with, it's really blow up in your face when you lose. winning covers everything, but if you lose the way they do, you're gonna have to eat it.

 

Do we even call that sh!t Argentina has pulled since June dark arts?

I mean Pep's Barcelona deployed dark arts but they played ball..some of the best according to some..

Argentines don't want to play ball even though they played against inferior opposition in 7 out of their 9 games; they just want to hit, shove and punch..and demand they get away with it..

 

1990 was the worst until today. These classless thugs just delivered the absolute worst performance in World Cup final history.
After their infamous match 60 years ago (in the 1966 World Cup), England's World Cup winning coach, Sir Alf Ramsey, described the Argentine players as 'animals'. Today, they matched every single bit of that description, just like their disgraceful performance in the 1990 World Cup final.

 

🚨🥊 Full scenes after final whistle.@MickyJnr__ 🎥 pic.twitter.com/ZXCvAFkHwy

— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) July 20, 2026

 

I suppose we should also thank social media users and true fans for exposing the con. These thugs were handed soft penalties almost every single game in the last World Cup. That exact trend continued into this World Cup throughout the group stages and until the Egypt game. The blatant cheating that occurred in that match triggered global contempt and intense social media scrutiny from all quarters. That public backlash effectively forced a stop to the awarding of those soft penalties.

Nevertheless, they somehow managed to curry favour with VAR in the game against Switzerland, which only intensified the cheating allegations. So, no further blatant cheating was possible. Even in the final, several Argentine players should have been sent off, and Spain’s disallowed goal(s) should have stood. But without a soft penalty to bail them out, they had no possibility to win.

 

Cristian Romero airing Trump.

Fair play.

pic.twitter.com/hn1jok7jUR

— Out of Context Football Manager (@nocontextfm1) July 19, 2026

 

Well said, but just one correction. Their favoritism conrinued even in the final. They did not get a penalty because they could not even get there. Spain suffocated them completely.

 

One of the most impressive stats for me is how Spain have conceded just one goal in the tournament, and kept France and Argentina to essentially nothing in 90 minutes.

It doesn’t look like a fearsome backline - Porro almost got relegated with Spurs, Laporte was playing for Al Nassr until last year, Cubarsi is 19, and Cucurella has passed under the radar for years.

 

The funny thing is that last year the United States bailed out Argentina under Trump, they should be a bit more gracious under the circumstances. Argentina's economy has improved due the free market reforms under Milei and that would have been much harder without that currency swap last year.