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France wins 3-1. Thanks for spoling my perfect prediction with the retaken penalty

Penalty saved but will be replayed

VAR penalty for Poland...

Mbappe scores again. 3-0.

Well, we lost 0-4 last time we played in R16

Mbappe scores. Game over.

Krychowiak is finally off the pitch. Should be his last game for NT even if we somehow win this game. Enough of this sucker.

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Czszeszczsny falls, sees the ball is still in dangerous position and decides to yell in pain to stop the play, successfully

I believe Dutch language is the second most popular for the use of letter "z" in Europe so you could have done better there?

Giroud scores. 1-0 for roosters.

Just now, hckošice said:

Well, that had to be a goal, at least one of these 3 attempts

Two shots on target in space of two seconds! We had four total in previous 395 minutes

Huge miss by Giroud...

Good thing they don't play the full anthem

squad vs France. We go back to 4-5-1 from the Mexico game with the only change being Frankowski instead of Zalewski on the wing. Expect nothing but crap in offense with this tactics

@rafalgorkaKusociński is maybe remembered for winning 1932 gold but the TV footage is hardly shown on TV. The one moment that is always shown is Wojciech Fortuna's 1972 first jump and they never show the extremely bad second jump   I don't recall anything from Małysz's SLC jumps, the hype was obviously enormous but all I see is Fortuna's jump in my mind Hell, Malinowski's steeplechase finish from 1980 gets more coverage too.

I suppose not enough people even care about cross country to have any opinon. Everyone knows mass starts are TV demand and it will come down to a sprint finish from the pack. So you can tune in for the last 2 kms at best and do away with the first 18. I mean all the usual suspects end up in the lead pack anyway as evident by the final results. Ishida getting 12th place will never be sold as proof how "exciting" this format is.

They're doing 20 km mass starts now?  Well, that's one thing Masako Ishida probably hasn't tried in her life before

Well, that's the way it works. FIFA could always ban the federation itself but that would only mean the men's team wouldn't be allowed to play international football either. Not to mention Afghanistan has only played one international match against non-Asian opponent - during 1948 Olympic Games. Even North Korea isn't as alienated like that.

Probably not the moment Roberto Ayala would like to remember

Australia scores out of nowhere

Btw, this was Messi's first goal in knockout phase of the World Cup.

Ryan decided that Borjan's blunder wasn't worthy of the biggest GK blunder at this World Cup

Asamoah Gyan was the first player. @hckošiceprobably only knows that because his first miss was vs Czech Republic

And this guy Messi scores

1 hour ago, Makedonas said:

I am flattered that you included Greece 

 

We definitely could make it. Tsimikas (Liverpool) and Vlachodimos (Benfica) are elite in my opinion. I think we need another 2-3 players to be at that level, and Chatzidiakos (AZ Alkmaar), Mavropanos (Vfb Stuttgart), and Pavlidis (AZ Alkmaar) all seem to be heading in that direction to play for big European clubs, all are having very good seasons and seem to be taking their games to the next level.

 

And of course I still have faith in Retsos if he can finally stay healthy, as well as some of our veteran players who are solid like Bakasetas, Fortounis, Pelkas...

 

Strikers Fountas and Giakoumakis are streaky but when in form they know how to find the back of the net very often.

Ah yes, Giakoumakis who played half a season with Górnik Zabrze before going on to become Eredivisie top scorer Best chance to have a Paulinho-like career - from ŁKS Łódź to Barcelona

54 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Strate is def the most promising talent Canadian ski jumping has produced in a while.

Yeah, she is only 21 so actually still very young. Hopefully finances won't force her to seek full-time job after the next Olympics. I imagine ski jumping is still dead last in winter sports funding in Canada. Loutitt also has a lot of promise but she's still recovering from off-season ankle injury IIRC.

3 hours ago, George_D said:

Rumored Argentina starting 11 vs. Australia

 

Emiliano Martínez; Molina, Otamendi, Romero, Acuña, De Paul, Enzo, Mac Allister; Lionel Messi, Julián Álvarez, Ángel Correa or Papu Gómez or Paulo Dybala

This is correct with Gomez taking the either/or place