Qatar Nights - The Winter World Cup Thread

Seems to me that this GK Livakovic isn’t gonna be playing his club football in Croatia very much longer.

 

It never ceases to amaze me. the strange English transliteration of foreign city/country names, e.g. Hrvatska -> Croatia. I assume there's no chance that Hrvatska is pronounced Croatia in their language.

Not to mention Munchen -> Munich, Beijing -> Peking, etc, etc. Of course it goes the other way too, e.g. London -> Londres. And there are even more extreme examples that just aren't coming to mind right now.

In any case, Hrvatska is doing a very credible job of holding Brasil to a 0-0 draw with only 15+ mins of ET to go. Whoa they just had perhaps their most open chance at a goal from 20 yards out, but sadly skied it.

 

OMG Neymar just probably settled it. With a moment of individual tenacity, poise and brilliance.

Edit: Oops! Spoke a bit too soon. Crotia with a 117' equalizer. PK's loom!

p.s. He ties Pele's goal scoring record with the Selecao.

 

Martinelli would have made his PK

 

WOW. Brasil are out. On a few levels I'm not disappointed. Well played Croatia!

What a crazy cup.

p.s. Perhaps the most obvious MOTM of all time.

 

Happy that the team who used a stutter penalty crashes out to a team that does them the good old fashioned way.

Bye Brazil, thanks for not running Martinelli into the ground while simultaneously running Casemiro and Anthony into the ground.

But ******** you for wrecking Jesus

 

Those two up the middle mentally shattered Allison. He might never save another one again.

 

That first one, roof of the net, was only getting saved if he had some sort of ability to see into the future because it hit so hard and sweet it would still be difficult for anyone to stop even if they guessed the direction correctly.

 

Marquinhos may need some therapy in the coming hours and days. Amongst others. But he was central to 2 decisive moments which lost them the game, even if one was very much bad luck (the deflected equalizer)

 

Sad Samba Dance

 

That needle-threading thruball assist by Messi.

 

Not just English, in Italian Croatia is Croazia. In German it is Kroatien. Here is something weird, not related to Croatia but related to locations in other languages. In Italian, Munich is Monaco (basically monk, probably from the latin name Monachium). So if you are in Milan and getting on a train to Monaco, make sure it is the Monaco you want to go to!

 

Pretty funny handball by Messi, ref too much of a coward to card it

 

This Dutch team is easily the worst hairline team at this WC

 

It ain’t over until the fat lady sings?

 

Holy shit. There should be two red cards in that play I think.

And yet there’s only one yellow card given. This is Qatar 2022.

 

This ref has totally lost control, terrible officiating

 

I’m a pure neutral in this, but it seems to me Argentina is getting nearly all the marginal foul calls in their favor.

 

WOW

 

Hahaha what a shit house reverse Uno

 

OMG. What was I saying before about fat ladies and crazy cups?

 

The Fox Sports commentator just finished that by calling the score "Netherlands 2 Argentina Nil"

fcuking hell I hate Fox Sports

 

The Dutch height advantage makes this look like adults against a bunch of 8 year olds.