Monzanator

4 free kick goals have been scored so far: 1. Golovin vs KSA, 2. CR vs SPA, 3. Kolarov vs CRC and 4. Quintero vs JPN.

Dzyuba is like 1.95m tall or something. I guess he's the better option vs the Egyptian CBs.

Yeah, Piszczek's age is catching up with him for a while now. Injuries too. He's expected to retire from national team after this WC.

Well great, we picked Cionek as Glik's replacement here. Cionek/Pazdan is the main weakness here, hopefully Mane doesn't explore that too often...

Perkeman will be grilled for taking Cuadrado off in the first half. They had like zero quality in midfield since that happened. Colombia's defeat isn't the best of news for Poland unless this team is truly that bad here.

What do Serbia and Costa Rica have in common with Ghana and Chile DNQ?

Don't see it coming, Nigeria on paper looked only better than Saudi Arabia so far. I expect 0 pts for them. Getting all the action through Moses is predictable and easy to stop. The keeper can't put the ball into play at all and is a huge liability.

Peru giving Eriksen acres of space.... and they get punished for it.

Cueva buckled under pressure. He's supposedly the big star of the team but he couldn't handle the pressure.

Another let down from Argentina (allthough I'm happy for Iceland here). Their issue remains that if Messi has a day off, the entire team has a day off. They're too reliant on him.

Bahrain also does it, they buy East African runners all the time because it all comes down to money. Kenya & Ethiopia are poor, Qatar has the oil fields. Nobody's gonna tell the rich what they should do, Kenya & Ethiopia least of all. Of course in football they're gonna buy Brazilians and Argentinians most likely.

Qatar has bought everything now, World Cup, World Athletics Champs, World Handball champs, their handball team had like two natives and rest just foreigners bought for cash. I wonder how many natives will play football in four years time? Qatar is one huge desert, you might as well play in on Sahara but Qatar has the money to bankroll their wishes. Besides, I'm from Poland that has never been described as a Western country

Epic howler from de Gea....

Ref has to get the call from VAR referees first. If there's no call then he made no mistakes.

Pepe's years of bullshit play deserved that schooling from Costa!!!

The game was pretty entertaining, both teams knew they had to win with Spain/Portugal ahead. Silly defeat for Morrocco but that's the old sin for any African team. They just don't have tactical prowess to keep the game under full control. That was a needless foul that lead to the OG.

Kara in Polish means penalty or punishment so you're right about that However pilka also means hand saw in Polish It's generally a term for any kind of a ball in first place. Hand saw: Football magazine: Dostoyevski's "Crime & Punishment"

It's USRR Instead of Robbie Williams, they should have brought this guy for the opening ceremony:

The weather in Morocco resembles the Brazilian weather more I'm Russia didn't want to go to Africa though Even though they have one of the warmest if not the warmest summers in Europe.

I've never read so much bullshit in one post before...

Uzbekistan pretty much blew the second straight qualies. They seem genuinely stronger than KSA.

Qatar bought themselves the World Cup so it's not like KSA is the worst evil. I wonder how many foreign born players will represent Qatar in four years time They had like two or three natives playing during the Handball WC.

Yeah, that second goal pretty much sums up how bad the SA defense is. That would look bad in the youth division let alone a World Cup. I had better hopes for SA but they're trash so far.

[hide] Preliminary Round June 14th - June 28th, 2018 32 Nations, 8 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 14th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Russia 1 1 Saudi Arabia June 15th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+5) Egypt 1 2 Uruguay June 19th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Russia 0 1 Egypt June 20th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Uruguay 3 0 Saudi Arabia June 25th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+4) Uruguay 3 1 Russia June 25th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Saudi Arabia 0 2 Egypt Group B Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 15th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Morocco 2 1 Iran June 15th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Portugal 1 2 Spain June 20th 2018, h. 15:00 (GMT+3) Portugal 2 0 Morocco June 20th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Iran 0 3 Spain June 25th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Iran 1 4 Portugal June 25th 2018, h. 20:00 (GMT+2) Spain 3 1 Morocco Group C Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 16th 2018, h. 13:00 (GMT+3) France 4 0 Australia June 16th 2018, h. 19:00 (GMT+3) Peru 0 0 Denmark June 21st 2018, h. 16:00 (GMT+4) Denmark 1 0 Australia June 21st 2018, h. 20:00 (GMT+5) France 3 1 Peru June 26th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Denmark 2 2 France June 26th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Australia 1 1 Peru Group D Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 16th 2018, h. 16:00 (GMT+3) Argentina 0 0 Iceland June 16th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+2) Croatia 1 0 Nigeria June 21st 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Argentina 2 2 Croatia June 22nd 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Nigeria 1 2 Iceland June 26th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Nigeria 0 1 Argentina June 26th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Iceland 2 2 Croatia Group E Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 17th 2018, h. 16:00 (GMT+4) Costa Rica 1 1 Serbia June 17th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Brazil 4 0 Switzerland June 22nd 2018, h. 15:00 (GMT+3) Brazil 3 1 Costa Rica June 22nd 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+2) Serbia 0 0 Switzerland June 27th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Serbia 0 2 Brazil June 27th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Switzerland 1 2 Costa Rica Group F Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 17th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Germany 3 0 Mexico June 18th 2018, h. 15:00 (GMT+3) Sweden 2 1 South Korea June 23rd 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) South Korea 0 1 Mexico June 23rd 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Germany 2 1 Sweden June 27th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) South Korea 0 3 Germany June 27th 2018, h. 19:00 (GMT+5) Mexico 1 1 Sweden Group G Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 18th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Belgium 3 0 Panama June 18th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Tunisia 0 1 England June 23rd 2018, h. 15:00 (GMT+3) Belgium 2 0 Tunisia June 24th 2018, h. 15:00 (GMT+3) England 2 0 Panama June 28th 2018, h. 20:00 (GMT+2) England 1 2 Belgium June 28th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Panama 1 0 Tunisia Group H Date & Time Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 19th 2018, h. 15:00 (GMT+3) Colombia 3 1 Japan June 19th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+3) Poland 1 1 Senegal June 24th 2018, h. 20:00 (GMT+5) Japan 2 3 Senegal June 24th 2018, h. 21:00 (GMT+3) Poland 0 1 Colombia June 28th 2018, h. 17:00 (GMT+3) Japan 0 2 Poland June 28th 2018, h. 18:00 (GMT+4) Senegal 1 2 Colombia [/hide]

It's funny, Haratyk as the short, bulky Adam Nelson-kind of a guy might well be the better prospect than Bukowiecki who followed the old school Polish pattern. I guess it's all in the technique