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

And this guy Messi scores

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

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.

This is correct with Gomez taking the either/or place

@rafalgorkaLet's hope FIFA makes the change to 12 groups x 4 teams at the very least. 16 groups x 3 teams would probably result in a ton of 0-0 draws in the last match of the group with two teams advancing and obvious schedule disadvantage to whichever team plays in the first two matches unless they win them both.

4th place for Abigail Strate This is one sport where taking 4th place should be considered a huge success. It's not their best ever in women's ski jumping since Taylor Henrich had two podiums in 2015 before

Second Dutch player who makes NT debut at the World Cup - Simons joins Noppert. That must be some record to have two such players in one tournament.

Dumfries takes star of the match with a goal

Wright scores after wasting a great chance two minutes before. 2-1.

USA with one foul after 67 minutes

Holland had clear finishing issues for the last two years, our commentators say the lack of crosses and playing the ball to the box on the ground was done on purpose as the Dutch must have figured out something watching the group stage. It probably helps England & Wales are classic aerial cross in the box opponents so USA probably focused on that before.

Daley Blind makes it 2-0 in stoppage time.

Depay says hi!

Pulisic with a big chance early but Noppert saves.

Yeah, Johann Passler won 3 World Cup races in his career and took bronze medal in 1988 OG individual.

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Joanna Jakieła 35th and Anna Mąka 37th so at least some points. Kamila Żuk with another horror show 5/10 in 81st but I never expected she'd raise her game with Hojnisz absent. In fact, she could be doing even worse than usual.

Rebecca Passler 10/10 so there is life for Italy behind the usual two...

Weidel only two seconds off the podium. Guess the slowest German to ever make the A-team has improved her skiing?

Did the Austrian coach was screaming "10 seconds" when Hauser's lead was in fact 17 seconds? Obviously not a surprise when the coaches give smaller gaps then they really are.

Hauser 10/10 with zero screen time

Gabriel Jesus won't play in World Cup anymore due to a knee injury.

E. Gasparin & Wierer starting b2b prompted TVP Sport to discuss how big the Italian-speaking population in Switzerland actually is

Jacob deGrom has signed a 5-year deal with Texas Rangers. This can totally go sideways if he can't stay healthy anymore. Rangers are miles removed from being contenders to begin with.