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Tello is doing the best Lahoz impression but for a good reason.

Fernandes hits the bar.

Morocco scores!!!

Just now, heywoodu said:

National identity and a separate ethnic identity to cheer for if the national one doesn't work, it does give one double chances to feel like winning, that's smart 

You might ask @hckošiceif he's cheering for Czech Republic?

26 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Must be cool to simply switch to cheering for whoever is from your general area on the map so even if your own team is so bad it can't even qualify, you still have something to cheer for as if it's home  

One Polish portal just run a story how Morocco represents the entire Arab world and yeah, I can see why Maghreb region is running behind Morocco even if Algeria was a French colony and Morocco was a Spanish colony etc.

4 minutes ago, konig said:

Van Gaal sayed things like "Messi doesnt do nothing in defense" and "we are clear candidates to win the penalties", here the cultural diferences: in Argentina we call this actions like "boquear", a big provocation and coming from the coach is even worse, Weghorst, acording the players, says many things in the match, for that reason Messi sayed to him when he was with the press "que miras, bobo" (what are you looking at?, dumb).

It seems like Argentinians were also mocking Riquelme goal celebrations as van Gaal kicked him out of Barcelona all those years ago?

Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann watching the men's relay? I assume he's on skiing trip to Kitzbuehel?

Paulina Fialkova 19/20 and up 19 places to 10th.

And that's the second pursuit win for Simon.

Davidova vs Tandrevold for 2nd place.

Messi has also played 24 matches in WC finals so far so he's set to beat Lothar Matthaus' record if he plays in the remaining two.

Persson 15/15 up to 2nd place.

Nobody will boycott the SOG because of Russia & Belarus ban IMO.

North Korea is so far adrift nobody really cares about them and their reasoning why they skip sport events anymore.

Michal Listkiewicz on Polish TV says Mateu Lahoz had an absolutely horrible match and he could talk 30 minutes about his mistakes

17 stand alone YC is a record for a single World Cup match. Netherlands vs Portugal in 2006 had 16 yellows & 4 red cards though which remains the most penalised match in WC history (all red cards were shown for a second yellow).

Lautaro Martinez finally scores in PSO!

vs in semi-final.

Mateu Lahoz still dishing out cards after it's all over...

Emiliano Martinez waited with his saves until PSO

Argentina 2-0 up...

Netherlands with two shots on target and two goals.

Extra time!

How about this then!!! Weghorst is the man

10 minutes added on

Mass brawl. They are really giving Lahoz a chance to show red...

Weghorst scores!

And here come the handbags. Also some fan on pitch.

Penalty for Argentina...

Holland with one total shot after 60 mins

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Sure, because Brazil has a way higher 'peak' than Croatia. As in, if Brazil really gets going, they can utterly destroy everyone, just like France. Croatia doesn't have that 'peak', but a team doesn't need to have that to be a big danger.

 

And come on, boring, not boring, whatever. If you reach the World Cup final, and the next time you're in the semi's after kicking Brazil out, you are very well capable of kicking Argentina and the Netherlands out as well, no question about it.

The gap between World Cups is too big to take any evidence from what happened four years earlier. If you did a poll among players I bet >80% would pick Croatia over Brazil. Because of the fixed draw there will always be speculation who is the better opponent looking ahead.