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At least Germany are making progress. Last time they were last in the group, now they are 3rd and in 2026 there will be only 3 teams in a group, so they can't do worse.

So beat both european powerhouses after being 0:1 down at halftime. This is also something to mention. well, not so surprising at the end when you have Tsubasa as nations legend

Just imagine if Brazil loses tomorrow... chaos.

I am glad that all of them didnt qualify cause they focused more on the non sport things. This is football championships, afterall.

Have there been recent World Cups where so many groups were so tense in the third round? I'm massively enjoying these final matches in almost every group

Imagine not advancing from a group with and

I'll be huge supporter of Morocco after this game from Spain. Not the first time I was this revolted with Spanish teams -.-

Nope, with the same points and goals scored and conceded, japan would advance due to their win against Germany. It will never come down to yellow cards between JPN and GER

En-Nesyri's celebration

Haha, no way of course, what a nonsense.

Australia as an asian country, Israel "expelled" to be an European country, not sure if I would classify that as normal haha

Didn't they just won 3 golds in taekwondo? All the kicking talent got transfered there.

The armband warriors Germany, Denmark, Wales being evicted one by one is very delightful. Too bad we couldn't get England to join them, but Senegal are coming soon.

Look that all was a sofisticated plan from the beginning

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kinda Morocco-wishing attempt let say

Alvaro Morata becomes the first Spanish player since the legendary Telmo Zarra in 1950 to score goals in all three WC group stage matches.

Czech commentator mentioning as one of the biggest wine producers, with yearly approximately 40 million bottles of good wine. Nice country.

would not call it over yet, Canada return always strong in the 3rd period, Morocco will have to stay out of the penalty box, the maple leafs are usually super efficient on power plays

have you followed their European Nations League journey lately by any chance ?

Anyone down for a trip to Melilla to watch the game?

How do you beat Spain and Germany but lose to Costa Rica? Ask Japan.

Brazil will play entirely with the reserve team tomorrow. Seems like a good decision, but given the last third round matches, a bad result could happen. + apparently Neymar is out of R16, nothing confirmed yet but it will be surprising if he plays.

Let it go man, Ecuador are boring

I do hope that Spain wiil find early exit home.

Congrats Japan, they really deserve it from An all time German fan

This makes things a lot more interesting now.

Exactly

I'd really like to know their pusher...he must have a lot of good things...

would be kinds nice if Belgium will wait for them in the plane tomorrow, sort of travel cost sharing you know

How come this goal was counted, what are they smoking in VAR or the Computer is Japanese

it is happening !

right now, 1st and 2nd but if and both win, then are out (and wins the group).

Germany can play filthy as well, they can lose and if Japan keeps the score Spain is out too

when a guy named Yeltsin scores against

Shame on you Spain. This should be penalised. I hope that this dirty play will turn against them in the 1/8 final.

Wrong

Gone are the likes of Liu Xianying and Eveli Saue too, not to mention Dafovska and Nikulchina or even Tofalvi and Khrustaleva. It's really a sad decline of diversity...

Morocco would have 5 points.

first deflated ball of this WC

Aguerd the MVP so far, he scored the own goal and minutes later caused the 3rd MAR goal to be disallowed

One of the things with summer biathlon is that the technological advantage is much less. All rollerskis are simply handed out 30 min prior to the race. This cuts way back on that side of things. You are right, ski waxing is something that is a science and an art, and can make a massive difference. One other thought that has been thrown around is teams instead of nations. That would really change things up. The problem with new venues is that the WC stops have become such large events, the logistics become very challenging for smaller venues. Hotels, volunteers, etc. Now I love to see new venues, and that is one of the reason why I like that the IBU Cup races will be streamed.

This is not controversial though, it was just very (!) tight.

The copa america centenario result is an argument about how unfair is that Mexico qualifying at each edition

because of the system and the opportunities she wouldn't have in a short time staying in Italy... here there's no chance for a girl (or a boy) to jump from the age groups to the senior NT, you have to be named for the junior squad and competing in the age class races, then if you win a couple of those races, you can be named to the B squad and start in the European Cup races and only if you win (or at least constantly make the podium) in that competition, then you can be named for the senior squad. no way you can miss some steps. it would take at least 1 year to climb all the ladder, wasting time, money and with a big chance of being stuck under a coach that can't develop such talent. moreover, when you are in the "minor" or youth teams, you just can't have a personal coach and training staff, you have to stay with the whole team and with the coaches named by the NF, which was the main point of the controversy between Lara's family and our NF (they always said that the point is not to waste her talent training with people 2+ seconds behind her on a 30-sec training run...and they also didn't want her to be forced to train only in the technical disciplines, when she's considered a big talent also in the speed events* -and here in the youth classes there's no way to be an all-rounder). *Lara said to the main sport website just this morning that she's going to start also in Super-G, especially in St.Moritz, where she's used to train and knows the track very well. p.s. she also said that she considers Skiing a totally individual sport, like tennis, golf and so on, therefore I don't think she's going to get back to a big National Team like Italy in a short time, unless she gets a written contract saying she can do whatever she wants. and despite not closing the door once and forever, she said that she's not considering a comeback to Italy right now (no idea of how some Italian media made a different interpretation of her words, maybe it's just the beginning of a stalking strategy)... I think she's stricter than her family on this point.

STOP THE RACE, Lithuania is third

Bump & reminder to all that we start tomorrow! Live streaming & here. Let’s hope we are back to normal with Tim onsite & random passers-by conscripted as co-commentators. https://olympics.com/en/sport-events/2022-fil-luge-eberspacher-world-cup-st-moritz/

@intoronto @mrv86 just remember this when we find a way to get eliminated in the Round of 48 on home turf

Szczęsny deserved to qualify