The World's Greatest Sporting Competition - The 2022 Qatar World Cup Thread

Umar · Dec 10, 2022

England have home advantage - Qatar was a British protectorate until it declared independence in 1971.

Saeta Rubia · Dec 10, 2022

Umar said: ↑

England have home advantage - Qatar was a British protectorate until it declared independence in 1971.
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But Qatar owns Macron so France has the home advanatge now.

4x4s · Dec 10, 2022

Argentina - England would be an absolute dream final.

Umar · Dec 10, 2022

Nah. It would be a good third place playoff. I don’t want Argentina anywhere near the final.

4x4s · Dec 10, 2022

Umar said: ↑

Nah. It would be a good third place playoff. I don’t want Argentina anywhere near the final.
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I don't care, the political and football historical aspect would be absolutely brilliant for me. Vintage modern.

J-Mezzy · Dec 10, 2022

4x4s said: ↑

I don't care, the political and football historical aspect would be absolutely brilliant for me. Vintage modern.
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The hated Messi vs the SHITpl

Man. The enemy of my enemy is my friend kind of attitude would take over the forum lol

saadomar · Dec 10, 2022

Argentina GK says Matheu Lahoz gave Netherlands 10 minutes of extra time "for no reason". Messi talked sh*t about both the ref and Louis Van Gaal. Argentina is scummier than Atletico Madrid. It really sucks that Croatia probably won't beat them without penalties. I'm hoping France or Portugal can do something. England and Morocco are longshots.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/argenti...srespected-him-before-argentina-world-cup-win

4x4s · Dec 10, 2022

saadomar said: ↑

Argentina GK says Matheu Lahoz gave Netherlands 10 minutes of extra time "for no reason". Messi talked sh*t about both the ref and Louis Van Gaal. Argentina is scummier than Atletico Madrid. It really sucks that Croatia probably won't beat them without penalties. I'm hoping France or Portugal can do something. England and Morocco are longshots.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/argenti...srespected-him-before-argentina-world-cup-win
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The Dutch brought on every single tall person they had on the team to milk headers and dead ball situations.

It's absolutely cringeworthy to see how some people are getting in their feelins because of Argentina.

So far all teams that advanced did what they had to do to make it. Not a single bad result so far. If the Brazilians had a bit more fight to them than smiles and complaints to the ref, they'd be facing Argentina next week.

meringues · Dec 10, 2022

Brazil I think just lacks a focal point. Especially in NT football you need a real 9 for when it’s just not happening.

Also that Antony kid. I know why people find him frustrating and he definitely seems like a shithead. But I think the ability is there. No idea if he’ll make anything of it though.

Akramzizou · Dec 10, 2022

Croatia has needed extra time and penalties in every single knockout game so far and in 2018. Argentina has an excellent penalty keeper in Martinez, would be interesting to see if Croatia adapts their approach.

meringues · Dec 10, 2022

I think Martinez is overrated, both saves yesterday were absolutely atrocious penalties.

Lyra · Dec 10, 2022

Nervous asf right now. Why it gotta be France man Anyways let’s hope for a miracle!

J-Mezzy · Dec 10, 2022

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Nervous asf right now. Why it gotta be France man Anyways let’s hope for a miracle!
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Win win for me

Either more shitpl tears or Mbappay goes home

meringues · Dec 10, 2022

"Van Gaal sells that he plays good football and then he puts forwards in the box and starts throwing long balls," Messi said of Van Gaal's tactics. "We deserved to go through and that's what happened."

hahahahahaha I like the cule on cule violence these two deserve each other

Also from an American perspective man we really have a long long long way to go still.

Lyra · Dec 10, 2022

J-Mezzy said: ↑

Win win for me

Either more shitpl tears or Mbappay goes home
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Lol you’ve lost your standards the moment you decided to hop on shithouse Argentina bandwagon so nobody’s asking you

4x4s · Dec 10, 2022

meringues said: ↑

"Van Gaal sells that he plays good football and then he puts forwards in the box and starts throwing long balls," Messi said of Van Gaal's tactics. "We deserved to go through and that's what happened."

hahahahahaha I like the cule on cule violence these two deserve each other

Also from an American perspective man we really have a long long long way to go still.
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He's right though, van Gaal pretends to know better but in the last World Cup he was subbind in that absolute clown of a goalkeeper that overdid it so much they ended up changing the rules just because of it.

Akramzizou · Dec 10, 2022

meringues said: ↑

I think Martinez is overrated, both saves yesterday were absolutely atrocious penalties.
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He is a shithead that gets into players heads during penalties. Did the same when Argentina won a couple of shootouts when whey won the Copa America, I think one of them was against Colombia.

J-Mezzy · Dec 10, 2022

Akramzizou said: ↑

He is a shithead that gets into players heads during penalties. Did the same when Argentina won a couple of shootouts when whey won the Copa America, I think one of them was against Colombia.
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completely owned our weak minded players

Glad the refs seem to be aware and stopped him yesterday

J-Mezzy · Dec 10, 2022

Lyra said: ↑

Lol you’ve lost your standards the moment you decided to hop on shithouse Argentina bandwagon so nobody’s asking you
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It’s never coming home

Lyra · Dec 10, 2022

J-Mezzy said: ↑

It’s never coming home
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Reverse jinx? Thanks

temesgen · Dec 10, 2022

J-Mezzy said: ↑

Neymar’s time with Brazil has been a major disappointment

Other than an Olympics medal won on home turf, the only other international success has been a Copa America also won at home without him.

Not that I blame him, Brazil have been underwhelming for the majority of his time there, but still has to be pointed out.
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Great players make those around them better. I think Neymar just simply never reached his potential.

temesgen · Dec 10, 2022

4x4s said: ↑

The Dutch brought on every single tall person they had on the team to milk headers and dead ball situations.

It's absolutely cringeworthy to see how some people are getting in their feelins because of Argentina.

So far all teams that advanced did what they had to do to make it. Not a single bad result so far. If the Brazilians had a bit more fight to them than smiles and complaints to the ref, they'd be facing Argentina next week.
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Argentina should have finished the match with 9 players.

4x4s · Dec 10, 2022

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Argentina should have finished the match with 9 players.
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Nonsense. Barely any real aggression. What we played during the Mourinho era was borderline butchering compared to it, if we go even further look at Caparros era Sevilla. That was on another planet.

temesgen · Dec 10, 2022

4x4s said: ↑

Nonsense. Barely any real aggression. What we played during the Mourinho era was borderline butchering compared to it, if we go even further look at Caparros era Sevilla. That was on another planet.
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Strongly disagree

4x4s · Dec 10, 2022

temesgen said: ↑

Great players make those around them better. I think Neymar just simply never reached his potential.
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I started to worry when Vinicius and Neymar were laughs and giggles after they missed a pretty big chance in the first half. Mostly because we do the same (not just with vinicius, but in general) in Madrid. You can laugh when you've put the game to bed.