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The Japanese fans were so friendly on Twitter that I wanted them to win.

Though I also saw a lot of Brazilians mocking Euros for not having A/C, so it's not the worst thing in the world that they won.
 
Eh... not making it out of group play the last two World Cups was worse. Especially in '18, coming off as World Champions and not making it out of pool play.
No, this is the giga world cup with extra Third World Countries to pad the tournament. Making it through the group phase required a single win and two draws, which was automatic for everyone other than island nations.

Ahead of the tournament the German players, especially Undav the "poor overlooked brilliant player" ran their mouth about Germany's chances, and the way they played against anyone other than an island nation was pitiful at best.
 
Honestly out of both games today I thought Brazil was going to be the real upset, they looked completely toothless against Japan and if they don't sort themselves out they're going home in the next round.

Netherlands vs Morocco is probably going to be a walkover compered to these games, but so far no team bar Argentina and Holland have actually shown they can play free flowing football as the modern game is basically twenty players all running from one side of the pitch to another with NOBODY staying back to get a cheeky counter.
 
No, this is the giga world cup with extra Third World Countries to pad the tournament. Making it through the group phase required a single win and two draws, which was automatic for everyone other than island nations.

Ahead of the tournament the German players, especially Undav the "poor overlooked brilliant player" ran their mouth about Germany's chances, and the way they played against anyone other than an island nation was pitiful at best.

Have they completely stripped players of creative freedom in Germany? I started nodding off at a couple points I was so bored watching them. Their passages of play are so formulaic and no players ever seem to step up.
 
Have they completely stripped players of creative freedom in Germany? I started nodding off at a couple points I was so bored watching them. Their passages of play are so formulaic and no players ever seem to step up.
The bigger issue is that Germany only has a single top club, Bayern Munich, so unless the players play at Bayern, the best German player will all go play outside of Germany, in particular England or for Barcelona/Madrid in Spain.

This leads to entirely different philosophies of football played and you could clearly see the disjointed midfield and defense struggling building up the German game. Little movement, few deep runs drawing away players to create room, just in general poor strategy, badly prepared and/or the wrong tactic for the players available.

This was particularly clear to see when the Bayern Munich players were expecting the other German players to move into certain positions or make runs to create space, and running into problems due to no open players presenting themselves, players going into bad positions, and then getting pressed by opposing strikers, leading to turnover after turnover. Which in turn hampers the build up for offensive play.

So yes, you are 100% right. The German game was utter shit.

(the 2014 world cup winning team had about half the players on the pitch playing for Bayern Munich at the time and every single one of them was a generational talent on their position. That and a lot of luck won that tournament)
 
This games was what I expected from the PARAGUAY vs USA in the first round. In the end USA believed that they were hotshit but early goal and being forced to play on offensive made Paraguay open too much.

So far I didn't see any european team in the cup that plays like them, full defensive power. When Balbuena lost that fifth pen I thought: they are going to choke, oh no. But the german kicked it so far away that I couldn't believe.
 
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No, this is the giga world cup with extra Third World Countries to pad the tournament. Making it through the group phase required a single win and two draws, which was automatic for everyone other than island nations.

Ahead of the tournament the German players, especially Undav the "poor overlooked brilliant player" ran their mouth about Germany's chances, and the way they played against anyone other than an island nation was pitiful at best.
That's true, it's basically the same thing.
 
Fucking hell Morocco, I wanted to go to bed.

Funny that 3 of the Round of 32 matches so far have involved climactic goals being scored in stoppage time.

Can it be the United States?
As funny as this would be, Canada would somehow have to make it to the semifinals to have a chance of meeting the US. Canada is not good enough to make it that far.
 
Morocco cucked Netherlands in the end of the normal game. I hope it goes to penalties just to see what Morocco will do. Also the possibility of a brawl is too strong too since NETHERLANDS are playing
 
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