Russia World Cup 18

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

[suzy]

Alex Scott is doing my head in a bit, sounds too much like a kids TV presenter.

Saying too much too quickly, a bit giddy.

 

Maybe she's trying too hard to nail down a permanent punditry gig after the world cup finishes.

 

Maybe I'm just used to years of dull, slow, inane, drones from Alan shearer Glenn Hoddle and Danny Murphy so I'm finding it a bit hard to keep up with somebody showing even the slightest bit of enthusiasm for the job.

 

 

I'd deffo let her kick my balls around for 90 minutes anyway.

She’s already been doing some punditry for Sky this season

[Trumo]

Not sure why the Russian defender decided to let Suarez have such an open target at that free kick. Uruguay are 1-0 up on the Russians.

[polymerpunkah]

Salah with the first for Egypt.

 

He looks okay.

[Trumo]

Mo puts Egypt 1-0 up on Saudi Arabia, lobbing the goalkeeper after a through ball.

[Grinch]

Quality finish.

[Trumo]

Uruguay 2-0 up on Russia through Laxalt. Massive deflection on his shot from the edge of the area.

[polymerpunkah]

He seems to be running at pace--not favouring the shoulder.

[Grinch]

Ah Salah...he'll get more chances

[Trumo]

Russia down to 10 men. Smolnikov gets a second yellow card.

[Trumo]

Saudi's get a penalty for handball, but the 45 year old Egyptian keeper makes a brilliant save to deny them, touching it onto the angle of post and bar.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I forgot all about Sebastian Coates. I had high hopes for Lurch when we first signed him.

[clangers]

Who'd have thought Russia start the World Cup with two impressive wins against poor opposition are then outclassed by the first decent side they play? A lesson for a certain other team?

 

You won't see a much better save than that penalty save.

[Trumo]

Saudi's get another penalty in stoppage time for fuck all, and equalise.

[Baltar]

The referee in the Egypt game is unbelievable. He awards two penalties to Saudi Arabia and the replays clearly (IMO) show neither were penalties. Is he being paid by the Saudi's to give their useless team one goal in this tournament? Pretty farcical. 

[aws]

The referee in the Egypt game is unbelievable. He awards two penalties to Saudi Arabia and the replays clearly (IMO) show neither were penalties. Is he being paid by the Saudi's to give their useless team one goal in this tournament? Pretty farcical.

 

Premiership standard.

[Trumo]

3-0 Uruguay. Cavani.

[Trumo]

Saudi's score a winner right at the end of the game. 2-1.

[Ne Moe Imya]

The referee in the Egypt game is unbelievable. He awards two penalties to Saudi Arabia and the replays clearly (IMO) show neither were penalties. Is he being paid by the Saudi's to give their useless team one goal in this tournament? Pretty farcical. 

 

Also stopped the ball on a threatening Egyptian attack when it came at him very slowly and instead of stepping over it he blocked it into the path of the Saudi player.

 

The worst part is that it worked - they've won the game.

[jamespp]

Everton win another 2 proxy trophies, Salah loses every match cup & Salah going home in the groups cup

[Gym Beglin]

Saw a cracking picture of Putin, Infantino and the Saudi King at a game the other day, fist -bumping.

[Baltar]

Dodgy ref decisions aside, Egypt are very poor. Saudi Arabia dominated them in the 2nd half. Rubbish teams that possess one absolute world class player like Egypt and Argentina need to copy Portugal. Just setup defensively, frustrate the opponents and just try to fashion the odd chance for the star to score. Works well with Portugal and the way they use Ronaldo. 

[Josef Svejk]

Russia stomp on two shit teams and then utterly capitulate against first decent opponent.

 

I just can't think of any other team which might meet the same fate...

[Gym Beglin]

Any running stats from Russia?

 

Wouldn’t surprise me to see them purposefully run less today to make the doping accusation seem less credible.

 

They are definitely doping. The running stats are well out of normal range. They’ll hide behind the ‘no positive results’ thing because we all know that they are capable of engineering a way to beat the tests, so it means nothing.

[Denny Crane]

Have we figured out how England will crash out of the tournament yet. My thinking is Kane missing in the penalty shootout at some stage. England v Columbia could see Harry Kane miss a penalty in the shootout v Arsenals Ospina.