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Referees for R16 Sunday matches have been chosen:

Jesus Valenzuela gets France vs Poland and Ivan Barton gets England vs Senegal.

Vlahovic scores! 2-1 Serbia. Some woeful crap in Swiss defense.

Mitrovic hits back. Literally the only man in Swiss penalty area

Shaqiri scores! 1-0 Switzerland.

Making physical contact with the referee. Gimenez will be banned for multiple matches IMO.

1 minute ago, hckošice said:

Perfect boycott

Yeah, three of the loudest off the field nations are going home, Germany, Denmark & Wales wanted to boycott the World Cup and left Qatar after group stage

So Brazil's path to SF is and either or aging

Some 20 second delay on Korean phones but they can celebrate now

Bye Suarez, we won't miss you

South Korea team watching the other match on their phones

Ghana keeper making some good saves in stoppage time...

Korea scores!!!!

1 minute ago, hckošice said:

So if scores they will pass to 2nd place, right ?

Yes.

De Arrascaeta scores the 2nd goal. Ghana is completely cooked.

And Uruguay scores with their second big chance...

An absolutely horrible penalty from Ayew

VAR penalty for Ghana.

Portugal takes the lead after 5 mins.

32 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

I don't think they even needed the VAR since it was near the goal, and the goal line technology should cover that area.

The goal line technology only covers the area between the goal posts.

One more indication:

Another look of the Japanese goal pass. The sphere of the ball does overhang the line which means the ball is in play. The exact rule is about the sphere shadow so to speak, not whether the ball makes contact with the line. So the goal decision was correct.

Wilton Sampaio gets Netherlands vs USA R16 match (I mentioned Marciniak gets Argentinia vs Australia earlier).

3 minutes ago, hckošice said:

only chance is Turpin being designated as the referee, they will kick a penalty even if someone will cough in the stands

No chance, the winner of this match could play France in QF so I doubt Turpin gets selected here.

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Or....? Sorry, don't have my groups entirely straight at the moment

can still win Group H but otherwise it's Portugal's to lose.

are the big winners then. They play in R16 and either or in QF.

Also good news for . vs in QF is more than manageable for them.

2 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

Wait, does this mean there's a chance Brazil will face Japan instead of Spain?

Yeah, If Spain finish 2nd they bail out of the Brazil QF section Brazil is looking at Croatia/Japan QF.

All over!!! Japan wins the group!!! Gemany is OUT!!!